Archive for June, 2007

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Upcoming Kirby – DC and more

The newest solicitations for the direct market have a few previously mentioned Kirby items. For those who want to buy Mark Evanier’s KIRBY – KING OF COMICS from their comic book retailer, it’s listed in the books section, on or about page 400, with the order code “JUL07 4078″. Meanwhile, JACK KIRBY’S FOURTH [...]

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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Upcoming Kirby – Don’t Yield, Buy SHIELD

Pair of reprints scheduled for Marvel in September. AVENGERS CLASSIC continues, with the re-introduction of Captain America. The recent first issue also indicated that they’ll be including the original letter columns in the series. Bigger news is that SHIELD gets a Masterworks volume, running straight through to the end of Kirby’s involvement [...]

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Monday, June 18th, 2007

-Link- Kirby en español

I can’t understand a word of it, but lots of pretty pictures in this spanish (I think) blog about recent and upcoming Kirby reprints.
http://disipatedworld.blogspot.com/2007/06/ultimo-tren-kirbylle-ii.html

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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

New Kirby – Big Day

Break out the wallets, it’s a big day for Kirby reprints, including work in two eras considered by many fans to be among the peaks of Kirby’s career. As always, links below, or purchase from Tales of Wonder, gives a small kickback to this site.
JACK KIRBY’S FOURTH WORLD OMNIBUS v1 is the first of [...]

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Sunday, June 10th, 2007

-Link- Kirby documentary reviewed

The new FANTASTIC FOUR DVD with an extended version of the 2005 movie is out, and includes the one hour documentary JACK KIRBY: STORYTELLER. Gary Sassaman has a review of the documentary:
All in all, “Jack Kirby: Storyteller” is probably the best comic book documentary I’ve ever seen. Like Kirby’s drawing style, it starts at [...]

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