Archive for May, 2007
Monday, May 28th, 2007
Dave Sim reviews Steve Ditko
In Chapter 8, More Harvey of Jack Kirby’s Austere Inking I briefly examined “This World Is Ours” from Alarming Tales #3. Some have suggested Steve Ditko as the inker but when I wrote that chapter I had not seen any Ditko inking from that period. Well Dave Sim reviews some Ditko comics from this period […]
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Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Kirby Imitating John Prentice Again
I got more of a response from my query about whether to continue posting on Kirby’s “ghosting” then I expected. Let me be frank, these are probably the poorest examples of Kirby art that you are likely to find. Because Kirby was imitating another artist he would give up much of what we admire about […]
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Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Jack Kirby’s Austere Inking, Chapter 8, More Harvey
In Chapter 5 I limited discussion about Harvey work by Kirby to those with cover dates in 1956. Among those works was art for Black Cat Mystic #58 (September 1956). That title had some stories that were inked by Jack. Some were done in standard Studio style while others in the newer Austere style. The […]
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
Continue With Kirby Imitating Other Artists?
The preview stories from the content pages of some Harvey romances had puzzled me for some time. Not that I gave them a lot of thought but they just looked funny to me. When eventually I did take a good look at First Love #69 and realized that it was Kirby imitating Draut things finally […]
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
Kirby Imitating John Prentice
First Love #70 (November 1956) “Paid In Full” page 1, pencils and inks by John Prentice
It is a dark and stormy night that we find our heroine. Alone and unsure as to what to do or where to go, she still is determine not return home. Looking out from a bridge (no mention of suicide […]
