Archive for August, 2009
Friday, August 28th, 2009
Happy Birthday Jack Kirby
In honor of Jack “King” Kirby’s birthday I have decided to feature 10 of my favorite covers (although I cheated with Young Romance #17 and used a splash). Well my favorite covers today; if I were to make a list tomorrow it probably would include a different set except perhaps for Treasure #10 which always [...]
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
Jack Kirby, Fanboy
Red Raven (August 1940), art by Jack Kirby
Somewhere around February 1940 (calendar dates) Joe Simon left his position as editor for Fox Comics and became Timely’s first comic book editor. It would seem that the first thing Joe did on arriving at Timely was to produce a new title, Red Raven Comics (August 1940, cover [...]
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
Art of Romance, Chapter 19, More Artists
(May 1952 – July 1952: Young Romance #45 – #47, Young Love #33 – #35)
Number of Romance Titles 1947 – 1953 (the period covered in this chapter is shaded in blue)
Simon and Kirby were now producing 3 monthly titles (Young Romance, Young Love and Black Magic). Black Magic had recently become a monthly (chapter 4 [...]
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Little Shop of Horrors, Chapter 4, Another Hit
(February – April 1952, Black Magic #9 – #11)
I cannot supply sales figures so I have to look for other indications for how popular Simon and Kirby titles were. Fortunately Simon and Kirby had a modus operandi when it came to releasing new titles (actually it may have been the publishers who were responsible). New [...]
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
Jack Kirby’s First Flight
Mystery Men #10 (May 1940) Wing Turner, art by Jack Kirby
I recently posted on a couple of stories Simon and Kirby did for Prize Comics early in their collaboration (Ted O’Neil). Flying stories were not a big part of Simon and Kirby repertoire (but see The Milton Caniff Connection) and so I thought I would [...]
