Archive for December, 2007
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Fletcher Hanks, Forgotten Genius?
I will be right up front about it, this post is about a comic book artist who has at best a tenuous connection to the subject matter of this blog, which is Simon and Kirby. There is a link to Simon and Kirby because some of the Fletcher’s work was published by Fox Comics from […]
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
The Milton Caniff Connection
In 1934 Captain Joseph Patterson offered Milton Caniff the opportunity to create an adventure strip for syndication. Milton had been on salary working for Associated Press, now he would have a share in the profits his strip would generate. But the strip would not truly be his, as was customary at the time Caniff’s creation […]
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Swiping off of Kirby
Young Romance #8 (November 1948) “Love Can Strike So Suddenly”, art by Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby’s take on romance always seemed to have more of an emphasis on action then most other comic book artists. The above sequence from an early Young Romance is a great example of this. The dramatic plunge of the airplane after […]
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Not Kirby, My Date #4
My Date #2 (September 1947) art by Jack Kirby
My Date was a short-lived comic that Simon and Kirby produced for Hillman Publications in 1947. Perhaps mislead by the comics title, some today hold the belief that My Date was the first romance comic book. As I discussed in a post on this topic (The First […]
