Below are some Captain America scans (for Independence Day, of course!) Photocopies of the pencil art pages that Kirby submitted to Marvel are followed by scans of the original art. These scans contain Stan Lee’s script and production notes, the lettering by Artie Simek, and the ink art by Syd Shores.
Also included are scans from the story’s first publication in May 1968’s Captain America 101. The artist who provided color guides was either Marie Severin, George Roussos or Stan Goldberg. (I admit I’m not sure of the current thoughts on the coloring at Marvel once it expanded the number of titles it published around this time. If you have any pointers, citations, or anecdotes, please let me know in the comments below.)
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper! page 1 pencil art photocopy
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper page 1 original art
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper page 1
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper page 3 pencil art photocopy
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper page 3 original art
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper page 3
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper page 5 pencil art photocopy
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper page 5 original art
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper page 5
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper page 6 pencil art photocopy
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper page 6 original art
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper page 6
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper page 11 pencil art photocopy
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper page 11 original art
1968 May – When Wakes The Sleeper page 11
Nice!
Thanks, Rand.
Happy July 4th to you and all of Jack’s fans.
Rob Steibel
I did side-to-side comparations of the pages between the photocopy of the pencils and the scans of the original art for easiest comparation, and posted them in my blog:
http://ferrandelgado.blogspot.com/2011/07/comparativa-entre-los-lapices-de-kirby.html
I also added page 10. Pencils were reproduced from JKC.
Scans of original art are the same size than pencils since I did screenshots from the whatifKirby.com site, hope you don’t mind.
Ferran