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Actually, I don’t think the Captain 3D sample is not in the ‘krackle’ genre. As I see it the krackle evolved from Kirby’s way of drawing fire, the black (or grey, as he pencils it) representing the darker holes in the flames (as you can see from the sample you show as well). Another early sample of this effect you should really show here, is the ‘burning man’ from one of those late fifties DC horror books. I am one who believes that Kirby at firs never intended these dots to be seen, they were just a way to draw the flame effect more quickly, after he found out that the curves of flames could be represented by black circles. When Joe Sinnott started inking those dots as visible dots, Kirb started using them more consciously. Maybe someone can find some samples of this effect in the work Dick Ayers inked and ask him why he inked them as he did.
I wrote about another Kirby Effekt (to give these things a ‘kute’ name) in a later issue of TJKC and I hope that you will immortalize it here as well and adopt my naming of it; the FHP’s or Floating Head Panels. They were a frequent stylistic trick in his work, a unique way for comic artists to represent a ‘montage’. Kirby was not the only one using this trick, or even the first, but they do appear in a lot of his work for Marvel in his early period.
Another Kirby Effekt I haven’t written about yet is the ‘talking planet’, where Kirby would cut the monotany of his page by giving us an extreme longshot of the scene where people are talking… by showning the planet against a dark sky with one or two balloons. I haven’t written about them yet, because I want to have a look when they start disappearing. I have ahunch that he would use them more in stories he had to draw from a script (such as the early monster stories that were written full script according to Larry Lieber). If that theory is correct, they would disappear when Kirby started writing his own stories and could even be used as an indicator of the fact a writer was involved (working on the theory that they were a subconsious reaction agains having too much dialogue in a story, something he would be less inclinded to do when he wrote the story himself).
Sorry Ger, I cannot disagree with you more about the source of Kirby Krackle. I know baseball only has three strikes, but with four things going against it as far as I am concerned the idea that Kirby Krackle was derived from smoke is out. But hey I can be wrong, all it takes is for someone to show me an intermediate step. I have no idea about what DC story you are referring to but if you or someone else can come up with another Kirby Krackle prototype I’ll be glad to include it in a post.
Harry, I couldn’t find a more educated man to disagree with. I will look for the DC story and send you scans. I don’t know what three strikes you’re referring to, but I wasn’t proposing smoke as the origin of the krackle, but flames. Wildly dancing flames have more curved openings in between them and were very abtly drawn by Kirby in that DC story I mentioned about a ‘burning man’. The effect was rather like the flames shooting out of the sun during a eclipse and given their date and place in Kriby’s work they may been seen as an precursor rather than an intermediate. Still, maybe I am wrong. Too much satring into the flames of the sun does affect the eyes.