Archive for September, 2006
Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Cracked #14 [1960] - Old Ideas For New Panel Shows
Kirby only did a single story for the long running humour magazine CRACKED, this 5-page story which he apparently both pencilled and inked (with doutone shading). This is a TV parody based on the premise of using classic children’s games as the basis for the celebrity panel shows popular at the time, so it […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
X-Men - The Early Years #9 [1995] - Enter, The Avengers
This issue has a reprint from X-MEN #9 [1965], wherein the X-Men are summoned to Europe by Professor X, who is hunting down the villain Lucifer, the man who cost him the use of his legs in some hinted-at story that wouldn’t be told until after Kirby stopped drawing the book. The Avengers also […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Upcoming Kirby - Kamandi Archives v2
Hey, this was kind of unexpected. Maybe they’ll actually get around to doing the full Kirby run on the book in this format.
Some Kirby stuff I should mention further in the future, DC recently announced that they’ll do a multi-volume colour hardcover series of Kirby’s Fourth World stuff, including all of the Kirby NEW […]
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
–Link– NYT on Kirby
In conjunction with the Masters of American Comics exhibit now moving to Manhatten’s Jewish Museum and The Newark Museum in New Jersey (with the Kirby content at the Jewish Museum), the New York Times has a brief look at a few images from a classic FANTASTIC FOUR issue (Flash plugin required).
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006…
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
The Demon #8 [1973] - The Phantom of the Sewers
Kirby opens up up the issue with a nice look at Jason Blood’s collection of ancient artifacts, which is doubly impressive when you consider that he keeps them in an apartment. Rent there must be killer.
Gotta say, Etrigan’s face in that third panel seems off. Anyway, finding some weapons missing, they find a […]
