Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Kirby Inkers, Mort Meskin
Jack Kirby had a lot of different inkers throughout his long and productive career. During the time of Jack’s collaboration with Joe Simon, most of his inkers were also artists that worked for the S&K studio. Mort Meskin, for one, had a extended and fruitful association with Simon and Kirby. The earliest S&K production that [...]
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Alternate Versions of the Alarming Tales #3 Cover
Alarming Tales #3 (January 1958) restored art, by Joe Simon
A recurring theme in my posts is how well Joe Simon could mimic Jack Kirby. This has resulted in a number of pieces that Joe did becoming attributed to Jack. Do not get me wrong, the overwhelming number of the items in the Jack Kirby Checklist [...]
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
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Last night I dreamed I grew leather wings and my name was Micheal.
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
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Joe: When is Comicon?Harry: April.
Joe: April! I’ll be a 110 by then!
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
The Early Sandman
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Adventure #72 (March 1942) “Riddle Of The Slave Market”, art by Jack Kirby
Joe Simon has said that when, along with Jack, he arrived at DC their first jobs was ghosting for others. In the past Joe had shown he could be pretty good at mimicking comic artists, some of his Fox covers have been attributed [...]
