Archive for March, 2006
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Just when you thought it was safe…
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Strange Tales #129 [1965] – Cover
Surprisingly, I really like Chic Stone’s inks on the Thing on this cover. I usually think his Thing inking is the weakest part of his FF inks from this era, but on this example (and a lot of the other covers) it seems to work better. Good cover overall, not the greatest villains [...]
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
–Link– Spirit World review
Steve Thompson takes a look at Jack Kirby’s SPIRIT WORLD, one of the two black and white (or blue and white in this case) magazines that DC released in the early 1970s.
http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/2006/03/jack-kirbys-spirit-world.html
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
Champion Comics #9 [1940] – Cover
Dated July 1940 CHAMPION COMICS #9 from Harvey features Duke O’Dowd as the Human Meteor. More importantly, it has the distinction of being the first Jack Kirby penciled cover (when it was reprinted in THE COMPLETE JACK KIRBY v1 Greg Theakston described it as “mostly penciled by Kirby”) and tied with BLUE BOLT #2 [...]
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Sunday, March 26th, 2006
Journey Into Mystery #92 [1963] – Cover
Another Thor cover from before Kirby took over the interiors for the series full-time. I always like the way Kirby poses Loki, always very confident and sinister.
The Kirby Checklist credits this one to George Roussos, but I’m not sure about that one. I’m going to have to compare it to some [...]
