Archive for March, 2007
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Early Jack Kirby, Chapter 9, The End of the Beginning
It has been months since I wrote my last chapter to this serial post so I think I should remind the reader of where I left things off. Jack Kirby met Joe Simon while both were working for Fox Comics. After a few months Joe went on to be art editor for Timely and a […]
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Anniversary Contest Over
I forgot to post that the winner of the Anniversary Contest has been picked and notified. To those who failed to win, I am sure I will be running further contests in the future.
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Battle Kirby
Recently I posted in some details on Foxhole, Simon and Kirby’s own war comic book. I thought it might be fun to examine some of the work in this genre that Kirby did later in his career. In this post I will look at a couple of stories from Battle, an Atlas title.
Kirby’s work for […]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
The Black Rider, Another Early Westerns by Jack Kirby
Black Rider Rides Again #1 (September 1957) “The Legend of the Black Rider” page 1 art by Jack Kirby
The Black Rider was a western costume hero along the lines of the Lone Ranger. Apparently his first appearance was All Winners Western #2 (Winter 1948). Black Rider Rides Again #1 reintroduces the hero after a lengthy […]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
A Simon and Kirby Screen Play
Joe Simon has a large collection of original art, proofs and published work. Among it are a number of unusual pieces of work. Perhaps the most unusual, and certainly for me the most unexpected, is a screen play called “Fish In A Barrel”. When I asked Joe about it he said it was done about 1955. […]
