Archive for October, 2006
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Comics Revue #185 [2001]
Comics Revue #185 continues the final “Sky Masters” Sunday storyline with covers featuring two strips from January 3 and 10, 1960, with art by Kirby and Ayers. Sky finds some promise for the space program in Roland Aly’s yoga techniques that he’s being trained in, but two reporter take footage of the training and [...]
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Sunday, October 29th, 2006
Marvel Super Action #7 [1978] – In the Name of Batroc
This issue has an edited reprint of CAPTAIN AMERICA #105 [1968], with some very nice inking by Dan Adkins. Unfortunately, despite the fine look that Adkins brings to the art, this isn’t one of my favourite of Kirby’s Cap stories. The art is fine, but the story isn’t too memorable, mostly by the [...]
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
New Kirby – Recent releases
Fell behind a bit and just updated the New Kirby page with some recent releases, a few of them pretty major. I’d also missed in the original solicitations that two of the STAN LEE MEETS… one-shots have Kirby FF reprints. Also, the MARVEL SPOTLIGHT on Lee and Kirby was pretty good, with a [...]
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Friday, October 27th, 2006
–Link– Marvel Stamps (several with Kirby art)
July 2007 sees the Marvel version of the superhero stamps to go with the DC stamps this past summer. As you’d expect, a lot more Kirby on the Marvel versions, with Kirby art on seven of the twenty stamps.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=8740
UPDATE: Mark Evanier has more on the art used in the stamps in the linked post [...]
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
Black Panther #2 [1977] – The Six-Million Year Man
Kirby continues his series-opening adventure of T’Challa, now fighting against a strange being from millions of years in the future. After he subdues the creature he realizes that he must find the tomb of King Solomon and the second brass frog that completes the time-travel device that will allow them to send the creature [...]
