Archive for December, 2006
Friday, December 29th, 2006
Early Jack Kirby, Chapter 4, Enter Joe Simon
Blue Bolt #3 (August 1940) page 1
Jack Kirby met Joe Simon when the latter became art editor for Fox Comics. I find it interesting that Jack started doing actual comic book work (as opposed to syndication strips) at the same time as Joe’s first cover for Fox (May 1940). Perhaps it is just coincidence or [...]
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
Green Hornet #9 (October 1942)
Green Hornet #9 (October 1942)
When I started this Simon and Kirby blog one of the first subjects I posted about were the Harvey covers done by Jack and Joe. These comics are rare and generally in poor condition and so these covers are not often seen. But they are some of my favorite covers. I [...]
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Alex Toth on Mort Meskin
Today I read an article by Alex Toth called “Homage to Mort Meskin: Maestro” that had been published in Robin Snyder’s History of the Comics (April 1992, v. 3, n. 4). Toth provided some interesting observations about Meskin’s talent. I think he was pretty much describing Mort’s work from the 40’s.
What I found most interesting [...]
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Early Jack Kirby, Chapter 3, Moonlighting
Crash Comics #1 (May 1940) The Solar Legion page 3
At the same time Jack Kirby drew his first comic book feature for Fox Comics he also created The Solar Legion for TEM Publishing. Jack did not sign this work, most likely he did not want to draw Victor Fox’s attention to his moonlighting. Work for [...]
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
Early Jack Kirby, Chapter 2, Working for Fox
The Blue Beetle (February 12, 1940)
Enlarged image
As some point Jack Kirby began working for Victor Fox, owner of Fox Comics. At Fox Kirby helped to bring to syndication a strip based on one of his comic book features, the Blue Beetle. Normally syndications strips are produced about a week before actual publication. However for a [...]
