Archive for March, 2006
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Pocket Comics #4 (January 1942)
I want to skip for now Pocket Comics #3, and proceed to #4. This is my favorite of the Pocket Comic covers. It is a great design, particularly since the text has been relegated to smaller areas as compared to the other issues. The Spirit of ‘76 is a good match for that on Pocket [...]
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Sunday, March 26th, 2006
The Last Supper
Joe Simon relates a story that once when he was in a legal battle with Marvel over copyrights, a threat was made to kill off Captain America. Joe then proceeded to make a painting of Captain America’s last meal with help from his daughter Gail Simon and someone named Leonardo. The painting has a prominent [...]
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Saturday, March 25th, 2006
Artist and Model
The Jack Kirby Comics Weblog has posted a real nice My Own Romance and made the comment
I think there was some rule that said Kirby had to do at least one artist/model themed romance cover for every publisher he did romance comics for
So I checked and I am sad to say Jack did no artist/model [...]
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
Kirby erasers at Marvel
I previously posted about margin notes and my use of Photoshop manipulations to reveal erased text. But these image adjustments also showed a number of erasures of penciled art. I am not talking about inked lines that did not precisely follow the pencils. That sort of thing is common in Silver Age inking. These were [...]
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Pocket Comics #2
In Pocket Comics #1 the title has been reduced compared to #1 so there is more room for the art. The main scene once again depicts an oversized attaching Satan, being ineffectively fought by a miniature military (in this case some of battleships) with an giant Spirit of ‘76 coming to the rescue. On the [...]
