TwoMorrows isn’t resting after the impending KIRBY FIVE-OH! Three more books you’ll be want to add to your bookshelf by the end of the summer. The interview with Joe Simon in the latest ALTER EGO is also reportedly excellent.

Jack Kirby Checklist Gold Edition
128 page trade paperback

The most thorough listing of Jack “King” Kirby’s work ever published! Building on the 1998 “Silver Edition”, this new, fully-updated, definitive Gold Edition compiles an additional decade’s worth of corrections and additions by top historians, in a new Trade Paperback format with premium paper for archival durability. It lists in exacting detail every published comic featuring Kirby’s work, including dates, story titles, page counts, and inkers. It even cross-references reprints, to help collectors locate less-expensive versions of key Kirby issues, and includes an extensive bibliography listing books, periodicals, portfolios, fanzines, posters, and other obscure pieces with Kirby’s art, plus a detailed list of Jack’s unpublished work as well. BONUS: Now includes a complete listing of the over 5000-page archive of Kirby’s personal pencil art photocopies. And scattered throughout are dozens of examples of rare and unseen Kirby art, making this a must-have item for serious Kirby collectors and eBay shoppers!

ISBN-13: 978-1-605490-05-2
ISBN-10: 1-605490-05-9

Collected Jack Kirby Collector – Volume 6
288 page Trade Paperback – Edited by John Morrow

As Jack Kirby continues to garner worldwide acclaim as comics’ greatest creator, this sixth trade paperback reprints issues #23-26 of The Jack Kirby Collector, the critically acclaimed magazine about Kirby’s life and career. Included are issues spotlighting Jack’s “Greatest Battles,” “Gods,” and a special issue spotlighting Kirby’s Golden Age work with Joe Simon, from co-creating Captain America to pioneering Romance comics and beyond! There are several rare interviews with Kirby himself, plus new ones with comics pros Denny O’Neil, Jim Shooter, John Severin, and Walter Simonson! PLUS: see a complete ten-page unpublished Kirby story! Jack’s awe-inspiring original pencils to FANTASTIC FOUR #49 (from the first appearance of the Silver Surfer)! A gallery of Kirby’s original concept paintings for the Fourth World characters! An analysis comparing Kirby’s margin notes to Stan Lee’s dialogue on classic Marvel comics! And a NEW special section with over 30 pieces of Kirby art never before published, including Jack’s uninked pencils from The Fourth World, The Demon, Kamandi, Eternals, Captain America, Black Panther, and more! With page after page of rare Kirby art (much in its original pencil form), and an amazing 1960s Kirby Silver Surfer cover, it’s an unprecedented tribute to the most prolific creator in comics history: Jack “King” Kirby! Edited by John Morrow.

ISBN-13: 978-1-605490-03-8
ISBN-10: 1-605490-03-2

Jack Kirby Collector 51
Summer 2008 – 84 pages – Tabloid Format
Edited by John Morrow.

It’s a bombastic “Everything Goes” issue in JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #51 (84-page tabloid magazine, $9.95), as we spotlight a wealth of great submissions that couldn’t be pigeonholed into a regular “theme” issue! The issue leads off with a rare interview with JACK KIRBY himself, followed by new interviews with two of the hottest artists in comics, JIM LEE and ADAM HUGHES, discussing how Kirby influenced them! And in addition to numerous articles on all things Jack, there’s Mark Evanier’s regular column about his former boss, two huge Kirby pencil art galleries, a complete Golden Age Kirby story, two COLOR UNPUBLISHED KIRBY COVERS, and more!