A trio of covers from various genres.

BLACK MAGIC #14, 1952.
WARFRONT #28, 1956.
TWO-GUN KID #70, 1964.

CHAMP COMICS #18, 1941. Another wartime cover. Don’t try to think too much about how exactly the Liberty Lads got the jump on those Japanese pilots, much less how the Japanese pilots could attack Washington DC.

DARING MYSTERY COMICS #8, 1942. You gotta feel for Blue Diamond. Right there on the cover, but grouped in with “and others” in the blurb, which names the other five guys.

STAR SPANGLED COMICS #40, 1945. And boy, is that a complicated flying machine for robbing a bank. If it actually works, you could sell the patent for more than the bank robbery would haul in.

Crime, Romance and Horror images designed to grab you and get your precious dime.

POLICE TRAP #4, 1955. Boy, that looks dangerous, doesn’t it? One of the S&K Mainline/Prize books.

TRUE BRIDE-TO-BE ROMANCE #17, 1956. A Harvey romance comic. That guy in the backgound looks like he’s going to cause some trouble.

BLACK MAGIC #V2#3, 1952. I don’t trust this guy, either.

DAREDEVIL #5, 1964. Wallace Wood took over (and slightly redesigned, before the big redesign) DD with this issue, and inked Jack Kirby’s cover.

TALES TO ASTONISH #64, 1965. Colletta inks on this one. The Giant-Man half is a nice bit of Kirby foreshortening.

AVENGERS, THE #22, 1965. Wood inks again. Great image of the Enchantress.

THOR #255, 1977. Inked by John Verpoorten, with some re-drawing. Because what, Kirby’s Thor doesn’t look like Thor? Weird. Nice to see the Warriors Three.

MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #25, 1977. Inked by Joe Sinnott. Great to see a few more Kirby Thing drawings on these TWO-IN-ONE covers. That was always one of his defining characters.

INVADERS, THE #16, 1977. Inked by Joe Sinnott. Hm, Master Man. There’s a Roy Thomas villain for you.

LAST OF THE VIKING HEROES #5, 1988. Mike Thibodeaux’s comic, published by Genesis West, had a few contributions by Kirby. This cover, inked by Dave Stevens, is really sharp, looking like something out of Tales of Asgard.

NIGHTGLIDER #1, 1993. Another of the Topps “Kirbyverse” books. This is the weakest of the covers Kirby did for these books (well, except for the inking on one of them), still attractive but the figure isn’t really doing anything.

SECRET ORIGINS #19, 1987. A bit of a minor one, Kirby did the Guardian figure on here, while Murphy Anderson did the rest and inked the whole thing. It’s nice that Anderson got do to more than just re-draw Superman and Jimmy Olsen heads over Kirby for once.

STRANGE TALES #134, 1965. Frank Giacoia inks again for the final Human Torch solo story. Knights, archers, horses, castles and super-heroes. Just some of the things Kirby drew so well.

GREEN HORNET #7, 1942. An early Harvey cover, signed Jon Henri. There seem to be other hands in here, probably Joe Simon, but there’s a lot of Kirby in that killer clown. I like some of those other features, Blonde Bomber the Newsreel Ace, Mighty Midgets.

ACTION COMICS #638, 1989. A very nice image of Etrigan, very sharply inked by Terry Austin, one of a few chances he had to ink Kirby. This is also Kirby’s last published work for DC.

TWO-GUN KID #72, 1964. Excellent Frank Giacoia inks on a dynamic cover.

MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #54, 1975. One of the covers Kirby did for the 1970s reprint books, although by this time reprinting non-Kirby stories. A nice generic Hulk scene. Colletta inks.

BLACK MAGIC #16, 1952. Love the extra-dark moody inking S&K used for BLACK MAGIC. Plus Kirby being free to use his full skills at the grotesque.

Sorry, but I’ve got a lot of these already scanned, so it’s easier doing these than actual stories.

TALES OF SUSPENSE #52, 1964. Kirby only drew a handful of the early Iron Man stories, but of course did draw the covers for quite a while. The Crimson Dynamo is a pretty goofy looking villain, but doesn’t the Black Widow look nice. Inked by George Roussos.

GIANT-SIZE CONAN #5, 1975. Inked by Joe Sinnott, with some corrections on Conan’s face, probably by John Romita. Not sure why the correction, since Kirby’s version was fine, recognizably Conan. Sometimes I think they just meddle with the art for the sake of meddling. The only Conan art Kirby did for Marvel, although he did draw the character a few more times that have appeared in fanzines and other books.

WESTERN FIGHTERS #1, 1948. A nice S&K cover from one of the Hillman books. Love the inking on those, and the folds on the clothes.

Another trio of covers from through the years

STAR SPANGLED COMICS #49, 1945. More of the S&K DC books done during the time Kirby was in the army, so others were doing the interior Newsboy Legion stories. This one is a bit loose, but captures the fun nature of the feature.

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #96, 1963. During the first year of Thor, there were a number of issues where other artists did the feature, before Kirby permanently took over the feature with #101. Of course, he still did all the covers, including this one inked by Dick Ayers, with a nice trademark Kirby shocked crowd scene.

INVADERS, THE #15, 1977. Inked by Joe Sinnott. Kirby did a lot of covers for this WWII set super-hero book, which frequently featured new “retro” characters as well as real Golden Age characters. I doubt Kirby had a hand in designing them, but they were well done and he handled them very nicely.