Always good to see what kind of tech Kirby would stick in as props to add some flavour to scenes, like this look at some of the toys of the alien kid who had captured the Challs. That big one up front looks like a prototype of a Dalek…
from Showcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #1 [2006]
reprinting Challengers of the Unknown #1 [1958]
Cap and Fury, coming this close to exchanging tips on how to keep that youthful appearance, before getting back to their usual gruff all-business attitudes.
from Marvel Double Feature #2 [1974]
reprinting Tales of Suspense #78 [1966]
Sure, like you’d be in any better mood thawing out after 20 years thinking your sidekick is still in danger.
from Avengers Classic #4 [2007]
reprinting The Avengers #4 [1964]
Don’t you hate it when your heralds start getting uppity?
from The Silver Surfer [1978]
That Orin sure does seem oblivious to the feelings of his future wife towards his mother. Well, what do you expect in a story called “Mama’s Boy”.
from Real Love [1988]
(reprinting Young Romance #10[v2n4] [1949])
Ah, Kirby machinery in the form of the “Stimulus Hat”, complete with Kirby’s iconoclastic use of quotation marks, generating dots of energy, doesn’t get any better than that.
from Jack Kirby’s Forever People [1999]
(reprinting The Forever People #8 [1972])
A great little image from a cinematic sequence in “Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis”, with the rather unusual instance of Russ Heath inking over Kirby.
from Monster Masterworks [1989]
(reprinting Tales of Suspense #28 [1962])
That Fury sure knew how to inspire the troops, didn’t he?
from Marvel Masterworks: Sgt. Fury #1 [2006]
(reprinting Sgt. Fury #5 [1964])
I finally figured that no black and white ESSENTIAL of the series is imminent, so I picked up this version. A few of the stories are new to me, and a lot of fun. I also like the George Roussos more than I do his FF issues, although still prefer Ayers on both.
Man, Tiny is one of the greatest one-shot characters Kirby ever created. Such an oddly affecting tragic tale. As Kamandi notes, “Even the ancients, with the imaginative movies, couldn’t have produced anything like this!”
from Kamandi Archives #1 [2005]
(reprinting Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth! #7 [1973])
More Kirby from the latest DC and Marvel solicitations. OMAC has some great stuff, although of course ends kind of abruptly. Good to see they’re including the Who’s Who page. Hopefully they’ll find some room from some of the other stuff that’s appeared in the fan mags, like some of the concept pages, the two-page spread from one issue which was shrunk, the original final page of #8. About half of the TtA Masterworks is Kirby, all the covers and a dozen stories. AVENGERS CLASSIC this time around will probably have the original Kirby cover, and possibly a pin-up from that issue.
JACK KIRBY’S O.M.A.C.: ONE MAN ARMY CORPS HC
Written by Jack Kirby
Art by Kirby, Mike Royer and D. Bruce Berry
Cover by Kirby & Royer
Witness the early tales of Jack Kirby’s legendary creation O.M.A.C. in this hardcover collecting stories from O.M.A.C. #1-8 (1974-1975) plus artwork from WHO’S WHO! In one of his last major works for DC, Kirby envisions a 1984-inspired dystopia starring corporate nobody Buddy Blank, who is changed by a satellite called Brother Eye into the super-powered O.M.A.C. (One Man Army Corps). Enlisted by the Global Peace Agency, who police the world using pacifistic means, O.M.A.C. battles the forces of conformity in this short-lived but legendary series!
on sale May 21 176 pg, FC, $24.99 US
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: ATLAS ERA TALES TO ASTONISH VOL. 2 HC
Written by STAN LEE, LARRY LIEBER & VARIOUS
Penciled by JACK KIRBY, STEVE DITKO, DON HECK & PAUL REINMAN
Cover by JACK KIRBY
Ready your fallout shelter, check your 4th-dimensional passport, and get ready for a trip into the wild and wooly days of the Atlas Era! The Marvel Masterworks have prepared another heaping helping of towering terrors that eat atom bombs for breakfast and psychological mind-benders of scintillating suspense. Led by Jack “The King” Kirby, there’s a whole passel of monsters from beyond the edge of imagination eager to smash their way into your town. From swamp beasts, terrorizing trees, atomic ants and Gorgilla, the gorilla who’d give King Kong a run for his money. If collateral damage is what your desire, then Groot, Krang, The Blip, Rommbu, Thorr and X, The Thing That Lived, are your best friends and your insurance agent’s worst nightmare. While Kirby tested the tensile strength of newsprint, Steve Ditko challenged readers to look through the pages of comic books and into new dimensions. His parables of suspense and wrenching psychological tension will leave you curled up and screaming for more — whether you like it or not!
Collecting TALES TO ASTONISH #11-20.
272 PGS. $59.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2913-4
AVENGERS CLASSIC #10
Written by STAN LEE & DWAYNE MCDUFFIE
Penciled by DON HECK & JUAN DOE
Cover by ART ADAMS
This is the big one! The Avengers break up!! Faced with an unstoppable enemy, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are fragmented and very nearly destroyed in another thrilling Stan Lee/Don Heck yarn from the House of Ideas! Featuring: the incredible, the inconceivable, the incalculable menace of…IMMORTUS! Plus!! All-new Avengers adventures from the incomparable minds of Dwayne McDuffie and Juan Doe!
32 PGS. $2.99