Archive for June, 2007
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Kirby Inkers, Marvin Stein
I have written about Kirby inking Kirby, but what about Jack’s other inkers? Scholars of the Silver Age have it comparatively easy, many of Jack’s inkers are actually given credit. This provides a head start even in those cases where no inking credits are given. But in the Simon and Kirby years no inking credits [...]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Rewrite!
Gangster’s Girl” original art by Bill Draut published in First Love #69 (October 1956) as “Remember, I’m Your Girl”
We are on location for the filming of a television drama. Suddenly someone taps the director on his shoulder and hands him a cell phone. We cannot make out the conversation but it is obvious the the [...]
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Sunday, June 17th, 2007
A New Book, The Marvel Vault
During a visit with Joe Simon, I had the pleasure of looking at an advance copy of a new book called “The Marvel Vault: A Museum-in-a-book With Rare Collectables from the World of Marvel” by Roy Thomas and Peter Sanderson. Here is a link to it in Amazon. They list it as available on October [...]
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Saturday, June 16th, 2007
The Fly, A Case Study of Swiping
“Swipe” is a rather unusual term which in my dictionary is defined as a slang for to steal or pilfer. It has also found use in discussions about comic books as a term for copying. Considering its original slang usage it is not surprising that the word has a very derogatory association in comics. Other [...]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
Jack Kirby’s Take At Imitating Bob Powell
Hi-School Romance #55 (September 1956) “Scandalous” page 1, art by Bob Powell
A relationship starts between two high school students, Tom and Linda. Apparently Tom’s interest in Linda was not too strong because he begins seeing another girl, Ellen. Linda finds out about this and in an article for the school’s newspaper reports about her relationship [...]
