Daily Archives: December 22, 2006

Upcoming Kirby – COLLECTOR #48

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Coming up in the Spring of 2007 from TwoMorrows, after a slight delay, the next issue of the KIRBY COLLECTOR. Nice cover by Kirby and Austin, there. Also note at that link above that TwoMorrows has a sale on their in-stock items, which includes much of the best Kirby material published in the last decade, for the next few days.


tjkc48.jpgTHE JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #48

We get technical in this issue, spotlighting “Kirbytech”—Jack’s knack for creating high-tech gizmos, gadgets, and concepts, from Iron Man’s armor and Machine Man, to the Negative Zone and beyond! Included is a rare KIRBY interview, Mark EVANIER’s regular column, two pencil art galleries, a complete 1950s story, interviews with Godland’s Tom SCIOLI and Dark Horse publisher Mike RICHARDSON, the 2006 Kirby Tribute Panel (with Neal ADAMS, George PÉREZ, John ROMITA SR., Mike ROYER, and Kirby lawyer Paul LEVINE), Kirby covers inked by Terry AUSTIN and Tom SCIOLI, and more! Edited by John MORROW.

X-Men #20 [1966] – Cover

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Kirby continued layouts for the cover of X-MEN for quite a while after giving up the interiors, though I’m not sure about all the ones he’s credited with. This one, finished up by interior artists Werner Roth and Dick Ayers, seems like a pretty safe bet, though. I like the pose of Professor X in the flashback scene to his awesome origin.

And that’s one really big and well labelled bag of money…

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Published 1966

New Kirby – Maybe…

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Can anyone confirm what ESSENTIAL DEFENDERS v2 reprints from GIANT SIZE DEFENDERS #1? That issue originally had a new framing sequence around three reprints (one by Kirby, one by Ditko, one by Everett), plus a separate Kirby reprint of a Silver Surfer story. Does this new book have just the new pages (so no Kirby), just the reprints that tie-in to the framing sequence (so one Kirby reprint) or all the contents of the GIANT SIZE (so two Kirby reprints).

UPDATE: confirmation in the comments that it has the first reprint, the Hulk story, but not the Surfer reprint. Look for the 2006 Kirby release overview post soon.

Hi-School Romance #56 [1956] – Cover

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As you may or may not have heard, Archie is going to “modernize” the look of their characters for a few stories, at least. On this prototype cover, Veronica doesn’t look too happy that Betty is having a good time over there with Reggie, while Archie seems to be paying more attention to his radio than to her (they might want to change the radio to an mp3 player). Plus she’s really overdressed for a picnic, so I’m sure she thought Archie was going to take her somewhere nicer than this.

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Okay, maybe it’s actually just an old Harvey cover. Still, a nice example of a low-key classic style romance cover, with the tender foreground scene and promises of jealous rivalry.

Published 1956