Monthly Archives: May 2010

Upcoming Kirby – Various Marvels

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Bob

A trio of upcoming Marvel books in various formats. Four previously un-reprinted Vision stories in the GOLDEN AGE MARVEL COMICS v5 book. Hopefully when they’re done there’ll be a book of just the Vision stories so you won’t have to buy four $60 hardcovers just to get them all. SILVER SURFER #18 gets another reprint in the softcover Masterworks line, and a run of 1970s THOR issues that had Kirby covers gets a reprint (you’d think there was a movie coming out or something), presumably including all the relevant Kirby covers, at the very least including one as the overall cover.

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-Link- Kirby exhibit video tour

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Bob

Paul Gravett presents a video tour of the massive Jack Kirby exhibit in Lucerne, Switzerland. If you’re passing by you still have a few days to see it for yourself.

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-Link- Kirby exhibit at Fumetto

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Bob

If you happen to be passing through Lucerne, Switzerland in the next week, there’s an exhibit Fumetto International Comics Festival of over 150 pages of original Jack Kirby artwork.  If your daily commute doesn’t take you that way, here are some photos, and here are some more including some of the biographical text from the exhibit and transcriptions of some of Kirby’s letters from WWII.

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Upcoming Kirby – PI Real Love reprint

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Bob

Pure Imagination is doing a new edition of the 1988 REAL LOVE collection that Eclipse published.  The original had 13 stories, most of them Simon&Kirby, and also some Bruno Premiani, Mort Meskin and Leonard Starr.  One difference, at least, instead of the photo cover from YOUNG LOVE #5 that the Eclipse edition used there’s this cover:

I don’t know the source of this one.

[Thanks to John in the comments, it's the splash to “Dance Hall Pickup!” from YOUNG ROMANCE #16]

Anyway, page 317 of the May 2010 Previews, MAY101084 if you want to order it, or I’m sure you’ll be able to get it direct from PI.  It’s an excellent set of stories and, at least for one more year the only substantial collection of S&K romance work available.

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