Archive for March, 2007
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Surfer book confirmation
Thanks to Glen for answering the previous post about reprint editions of the 1978 SILVER SURFER book, and sending this scan of the cover of a 1997 paperback reprint (ISBN #0-7851-0652-9) that he has. I was into Kirby and going to comic shops on a pretty regular basis back then and I don’t think [...]
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Surfer book query
I’ve been trying to definitively establish some sort of reprinting history for Kirby’s 1978 SILVER SURFER book published by Fireside. I know there was a hardcover edition dated March 1995, officially titled MARVEL LIMITED: SILVER SURFER, with an ISBN of 0785101179 and with a print run of 742 copies according to the enclosed note. [...]
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Saturday, March 24th, 2007
Fantastic Four #236 [1981]
FF #236 was the the 20th anniversary of the book (it was bi-monthly for the first few issues). To have some Kirby in the issue they took some storyboards he did for the FF cartoon series a few years earlier (though apparently not with Kirby’s “consent and cooperation” as they claim) and adapted it [...]
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
The Avengers #350 [1992]
Fifteen years ago AVENGERS made it to #350. These days there isn’t even a single AVENGERS book within reach of #100. Funny how that works.
For this particular milestone they celebrated with some reprints in this flipbook with gatefold covers on both sides. Of note for this weblog are the cover galleries that [...]
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Fantastic Four #224 [1980]
Presumably because Marvel had just recovered from their nadir of 17-page comics a few months before, this issue of FF had a 17-page lead story and room for a few more pages. They responded to that with some interesting Kirby content, including the first ever printing of the originally planned cover to FF #3, [...]
