Comments on: The End of Simon & Kirby, Chapter 4, A Friend Provides A Helping Hand http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/80 Sun, 20 May 2012 00:53:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Harry http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/80/comment-page-1#comment-54 Harry Sun, 21 May 2006 14:59:46 +0000 http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/80#comment-54 In fact Mainline did have to deal with the Comic Code towards the end as I wrote in a previous champter. Bullseye #5 (see image in Chapter 3), Foxhole #4, and Police Trap #4 all had the approval stamp. In fact it was the original cover to Foxhole #4 that was rejected and had to be replaced. It showed a dead enemy soldier hanging upside down from a tree, The Jack Kirby Treasury Vol.2 has an image of it. Unfortunately I will not be discussing in this series of posts any unrealized projects for two reasons. The first is that I want to stay way clear of any copyright issues in this blog. All images that I use here are my own scans and restorations, none are from any publication. The other reason is that published material provides documentation of dating while unpublished projects do not. My main objective is to try to analyze the comics for clues to how the events of the end of the S&K collaboration unfolded. Having said that I will add that sometime in the not too distant future I hope to have a post of one project that never was launched, the syndication proposal for Tiger 21. In fact Mainline did have to deal with the Comic Code towards the end as I wrote in a previous champter. Bullseye #5 (see image in Chapter 3), Foxhole #4, and Police Trap #4 all had the approval stamp. In fact it was the original cover to Foxhole #4 that was rejected and had to be replaced. It showed a dead enemy soldier hanging upside down from a tree, The Jack Kirby Treasury Vol.2 has an image of it.

Unfortunately I will not be discussing in this series of posts any unrealized projects for two reasons. The first is that I want to stay way clear of any copyright issues in this blog. All images that I use here are my own scans and restorations, none are from any publication. The other reason is that published material provides documentation of dating while unpublished projects do not. My main objective is to try to analyze the comics for clues to how the events of the end of the S&K collaboration unfolded.

Having said that I will add that sometime in the not too distant future I hope to have a post of one project that never was launched, the syndication proposal for Tiger 21.

]]> By: Ger Apeldoorn http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/80/comment-page-1#comment-53 Ger Apeldoorn Sun, 21 May 2006 07:32:23 +0000 http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/80#comment-53 Harry, Another great chapter. The cover to Warfront #28 is the best Kirby cover of that period in my opinion. I had never noticed the flamethrower on the next one, but now that you pointed it out it is obvious. I don't know if the comics code change would have been the reason for a hold-up at Mainline, because I am not sure Mainline ever came so far as to have dealt with them. The first issues with comic code interference appeared in february/march 1955. But it may have been produced for Charlton. Or it could have been one of Jack's many sketches. Could you try and include the projects Simon and Kirby didn't realize in this period. Some very interesting sketches have turned up in TJKC for a Lincoln comic and a Hunting book. I believe the subject of both is typically post-code and could be from the same bunch of proposals Davey Crocked came from. A seperate chapter about those could include C.C. Beck's Spiderman, the later Challangers and maybe more information from Joe himself? Harry,

Another great chapter. The cover to Warfront #28 is the best Kirby cover of that period in my opinion. I had never noticed the flamethrower on the next one, but now that you pointed it out it is obvious. I don’t know if the comics code change would have been the reason for a hold-up at Mainline, because I am not sure Mainline ever came so far as to have dealt with them. The first issues with comic code interference appeared in february/march 1955. But it may have been produced for Charlton. Or it could have been one of Jack’s many sketches.

Could you try and include the projects Simon and Kirby didn’t realize in this period. Some very interesting sketches have turned up in TJKC for a Lincoln comic and a Hunting book. I believe the subject of both is typically post-code and could be from the same bunch of proposals Davey Crocked came from. A seperate chapter about those could include C.C. Beck’s Spiderman, the later Challangers and maybe more information from Joe himself?

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