Archive for June, 2006
Friday, June 16th, 2006
Art By Joe Simon, Chapter 2, Before Kirby
The GCD lists Joe Simon as the artist for Solar Patrol in Silver Steak #3 (February 1940) and renamed as Planet Patrol in SS #4 (March 1940). I have not seen either so I cannot verify this attribution. Still the timing and Joe’s frequent signing of his work makes it likely to be correct.
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Art By Joe Simon, Chapter 1, In The Beginning
I disagree with the Kirby Checklist (and most scholars and experts as well) about attribution of some of the work to Jack Kirby. In most of these particular cases I believe the correct assignment would be to Joe Simon. Some of these examples look so obviously Simon to me, that I am amazed at that [...]
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Friday, June 9th, 2006
Champ #21 (August 1942)
While I worked on the End Of Simon & Kirby serial post I put on hold my posting on the S&K Harvey covers. But now it is time to resume that effort. I say effort not because of the writing, but the restoration of the images. These Harvey comics are not common and frequently in [...]
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Friday, June 9th, 2006
Strange Worlds of Your Dreams, strange indeed
Strange World of Your Dreams #3 (November 1952) by Jack Kirby
Your Dreams was certainly the oddest comic anthology that Simon and Kirby produced. It can be viewed as a spin off of the successful Black Magic comics that started a couple of years earlier. But its focus on the dream theme gave it a special [...]
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Thursday, June 8th, 2006
An end to unauthorized copy taken from this blog.
I received an email from the owners of web page that had made an unauthorized copy of the Furnished Room image in my Bill Draut post. I fully accept their explanation that this was due to over enthusiasm and not to a deliberate attempt to ignore my copyrights. They have removed the image in question from [...]
