“…from a design known to my own father”, indeed.
from the (soon to be reprinted) Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers #12 [1983]
Panels – This cosmic craft
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
-Link- Larsen on upcoming books
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Erik Larsen talks about some of the upcoming revivals of Kirby created (and Kirby Estate owned) concepts over at Image, including the previously announced CAPTAIN VICTORY collection, possible collections and completions of the Topps published material of the 1990s and all new material.
Panels – Move, Kliklak
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Jousting to the death, aboard giant insects and buffalo. That Earth A.D. has no limits.
from Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth! #14 [1974]
Panels – Synthetic bone structure
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Kind of hard to believe that Kirby kept up a daily strip of this quality for two years and still had an impressive workload of comic book work through that period.
February 10, 1960 comic strip
as reprinted in Sky Masters of the Space Force [2000] from Pure Imagination
Panels – Honor-bound to kill us
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Kirby’s 12-issue run on “The Losers” is rather unusual as an extended run on a feature he had no hand in creating, but where he still brought a lot of his own experiences, as well as a lot of imagination.
from Our Fighting Forces #154 [1975]
Panels – Anti-Life is real here!!
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Kirby did like his exclamation marks, didn’t he?
from Mister Miracle #7 [1972]
Upcoming Kirby – Marvel in October 2007
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Pair of books to mention here. GALACTIC BOUNTY HUNTERS gets collected (is the last issue out yet?) and the monthly reprints of AVENGERS continue. Also of note, Marvel continues to reward their customers by offering a new printing of FF MASTERWORKS v6 which promises a superior restoration of the artwork to previous printings (can anyone confirm if the recent OMNIBUS which collected those issues used this new restoration or the earlier version?).
JACK KIRBY’S GALACTIC BOUNTY HUNTERS HC
Written by LISA KIRBY & STEVE ROBERTSON
Penciled by MIKE THIBODEAUX
Cover by JACK KIRBY
An All-New series featuring characters and concepts created by Jack “King” Kirby! Meet the Berkleys, your typical suburban California family. But when young Garrett Berkley discovers his parents’ secret — that the science-fiction stories his father writes aren’t fiction at all, but autobiography — he’s blasted into a whole new universe of adventure, mystery and danger. Now, Jack Berkley must put down his pen, reassemble his old team and take up the mantle of being a Galactic Bounty Hunter for one final mission! Collecting JACK KIRBY’S GALACTIC BOUNTY HUNTERS #1-6.
256 PGS. $24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2628-7
AVENGERS CLASSIC #5
Written by STAN LEE & DWAYNE MCDUFFIE
Penciled by JACK KIRBY
Cover by ARTHUR ADAMS
Another epic in the annals of the strongest super-team of all! Witness the mighty Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Giant-Man and the wonderful Wasp defend against the incredible Hulk and “The Invasion of the Lava Men!”?a tale only Stan and Jack could tell! Plus: An all-new story written by Dwayne McDuffie (FANTASTIC FOUR) spotlighting Cap and Thor’s earliest partnership!
32 PGS. $2.99
Panels – Thor, in torment
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Sorry about the lack of posting recently. I’m hoping to get everything back on track soon. Until then, I’ll try to as least post an eyecatching Kirby panel every day.
from Thor #127 [1966]
New Kirby – SS & DD
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Two hardcover collections of some of Kirby’s later work hit the stores this week. From Image comes JACK KIRBY’S SILVER STAR, collecting the 6-issue Pacific Comics series of the 1980s. And Marvel brings us DEVIL DINOSAUR OMNIBUS, the 9-issue series from 1978 that finished off his last stint at the company.
And in more trivial news, I missed this one before, but a few weeks back ESSENTIAL DEFENDERS VOL. 3 was released, which includes the four issues of the series (#42 – #45) with Kirby covers.
-Link- San Diego Kirby panel
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Mark Evanier has his usual packed panel schedule for the San Diego Comic-Con up. Many interesting things, but of course none more interesting than this usual entry:
Sunday, July 29
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM / Room 1AB
THE ANNUAL JACK KIRBY TRIBUTE PANEL
Once again, we stop to talk of the man they call “The King of the Comics.” This time, talking Kirby will be NEIL GAIMAN, DARWYN COOKE, ERIK LARSEN, MIKE ROYER and members of the Kirby family, with previews of upcoming Kirby projects and a few surprises.