Archive for October, 2006
Sunday, October 29th, 2006
The Amazing New Comicscope
Comicscope Advertisement on the back of Wonderworld #13 (May 1940)
Not a toy, but a real projector! Show your own films at home – charge admission. Now for the first time you can use comic strips in the Comicscope and screen them in any size and in full color.
In the above ad, the Comicscope was used [...]
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Friday, October 27th, 2006
Kirby Or Not, Young Romance #85
Young Romance #85 (December 1956) by Jack Kirby
I have renamed this topic from “Not Kirby” to “Kirby Or Not”. The title was fine originally since most of my post were about entries in the Jack Kirby Checklist that attributed work to Jack that was actually done by other artists. But lately I have delt with [...]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Lone Shark!
I saw an unusual post today in one of my favorite blogs Pharyngula by PZ Myers. (A warning to those religious, the Pharyngula blog is largely about evolution and atheism). In it PZ talks about a comic book called Action. What interests him about this comic is the depiction of a giant squid. PZ has [...]
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Alternate Takes, The Thirteenth Floor
Black Magic #11 (April 1952) by Jack Kirby
For this cover Jack Kirby provides an interesting combination, an elevator made out as a funeral parlor. The operator is even stranger with a white complexion, an eye patch and (despite the gloves he is wearing) skeletal hands. The man is taken aback by it all, but it [...]
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
New Joe Simon and Jack Kirby books
During my last visit to Joe Simon he showed me a new book. The book is on Joe and it is one of six books from the series “Comic Book Creators”. Also included in the series is one on Jack Kirby, which I did not see. I checked it out in Amazon where they have [...]
