Archive for December, 2005
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
Upcoming Kirby - Collected Kirby Collector v5
TwoMorrows has just put this book up on their website, scheduled for April 2006.
Collected Jack Kirby Collector - Volume 5
224 page Trade Paperback - Edited by John Morrow
Reprints JKC #20, 21 & 22 plus 30 pieces of Kirby art never before published!
Kirby fans demanded more, so this fifth volume is a gargantuan 224-page […]
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Thursday, December 29th, 2005
New Kirby - All-Winners Masterworks
Oops, looks like I jumped the gun on closing the book on Kirby in 2005 a few posts back. Apparently the MARVEL MASTERWORKS - ALL-WINNERS v1 came out this week, with two S&K Captain America reprints. Not really recommended just for the Kirby, the first is just average and second is kind of […]
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Thursday, December 29th, 2005
Rawhide Kid #47 [1965] - Cover
This is Kirby’s final RAWHIDE KID cover, and he definitely went out with a bang, an all-out brawl on a well rendered riverboat. All sorts of stuff to love on this one. Frank Giacoia inks, and I love the effect he gets on the splashing water.
Published 1965
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
Marvel Tales #126 - Triton
The back-up story in this issue is a reprint of the Inhumans story from the back of THOR #150 (1968), a 5-page Kirby/Sinnott story that starts the three part adventure of Triton’s first visit to the outside world. Triton’s a great character when drawn by Kirby/Sinnott, very powerful. In his initial outing, he […]
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Monday, December 26th, 2005
Giant-Size Man-Thing #1
Two Kirby reprints in this issue. “I Was the Invisible Man” is from STRANGE TALES #67 (1959), a 7-page story inked by Christopher Rule. And there’s another one of those hands across the chin I mentioned a while back.
This story involved a young scientist coming up with a device that enables him to […]
