{"id":1419,"date":"2007-12-04T00:39:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T00:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/1419"},"modified":"2007-12-04T00:39:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T00:39:46","slug":"upcoming-kirby-five-oh-king-and-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/1419","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Kirby &#8211; Five-Oh, King and Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few major Kirby releases are scheduled or re-scheduled for early next year, appearing in the latest solicitations from Diamond.  KING OF COMICS seems to be on track for February from Mark Evanier&#8217;s recent updates.  Hopefully this solicitation of COMPLETE v5 will be the one to actually result in a book coming out, as well as wider availability of v4, which I gather quite a few people missed.  And of course KIRBY FIVE-OH, the book format special taking the place of the fiftieth issue of THE JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR, should be amazing (it&#8217;ll also be available from some places that TJKC normally isn&#8217;t, such as from Amazon from the link below).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href='\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2007\/12\/king.jpg' title='king.jpg'><img src='\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2007\/12\/king.thumbnail.jpg' alt='king.jpg' align=\"right\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/081099447X\/ref=nosim\/jackkirbywebl-20\">KIRBY: KING OF COMICS HC<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nby Mark Evanier<\/p>\n<p>Jack Kirby created or co-created some of the comic book world&#8217;s most popular characters, including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, and The New Gods. This book serves as an authorized, visual celebration of the one and only &#8220;King of Comics&#8221; and his groundbreaking work.<\/p>\n<p>HC, 9&#215;12, 224pgs, FC\tSRP: $40.00<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href='\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2007\/12\/k50.jpg' title='k50.jpg'><img src='\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2007\/12\/k50.thumbnail.jpg' alt='k50.jpg' align=\"right\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1893905896\/ref=nosim\/jackkirbywebl-20\">KIRBY FIVE-OH: 50 YEARS OF KING OF COMICS TP<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nby John Morrow &amp; Jack Kirby<\/p>\n<p>The publication that started the TwoMorrows juggernaut presents Kirby Five-Oh!, a special look at the best of everything from Jack Kirby&#8217;s 50-year career in comics! The regular columnists from The Jack Kirby Collector magazine have formed a distinguished panel of experts to choose and examine the best Kirby story published each year from 1938-1987! Plus, the best covers from each decade! Jack&#8217;s 50 best unused pieces of art! His 50 best character designs! Also, profiles and commentary by the 50 people most influenced by Kirby&#8217;s work! To wrap it up, there&#8217;s a 50-page gallery of Kirby&#8217;s powerful raw pencil art, and a deluxe color section of photos and finished art from throughout his entire half-century oeuvre. <\/p>\n<p>SC, 14 x10, 168pgs, PC\tSRP: $19.95<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>THE COMPLETE JACK KIRBY TPs<\/strong><br \/>\nby Jack Kirby &amp; Joe Simon<\/p>\n<p>The work of Jack Kirby, &#8220;The King of Comics,&#8221; continues to be reprinted in this ongoing series. This time it&#8217;s two volumes from the fall of 1947, and features a red-hot series of stories by Kirby in his prime! Volume 4 contains material including &#8220;My Date,&#8221; &#8220;The Flyin\u2019 Fool,&#8221; &#8220;Lockjaw the Alligator,&#8221; crime stories, and the first issue of Young Romance. Volume 5 features three Flyin&#8217; Fool stories, his last Lockjaw the Alligator, and Earl The Rich Rabbit stories; crime from Headline Comics; and high-school humor from My Date Comics.<\/p>\n<p>VOLUME 4\u2014SC, 8&#215;11, 160pgs, B&amp;W\tSRP: $25.00<br \/>\nVOLUME 5\u2014SC, 8&#215;11, 160pgs, B&amp;W\tSRP: $25.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few major Kirby releases are scheduled or re-scheduled for early next year, appearing in the latest solicitations from Diamond. KING OF COMICS seems to be on track for February from Mark Evanier&#8217;s recent updates. Hopefully this solicitation of COMPLETE v5 will be the one to actually result in a book coming out, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-kirby"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}