{"id":154,"date":"2004-12-10T10:49:35","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T10:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2004\/12\/10\/kirby-inking\/"},"modified":"2004-12-10T10:49:35","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T10:49:35","slug":"kirby-inking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/154","title":{"rendered":"Kirby inking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hembeck.com\/FredSez.htm\">Fred Hembeck<\/a>, in his Dec 10th entry, has a note from Mark Evanier mentioning that the MavelMania catalog cover Fred had posted last week was, in fact, inked by Kirby himself, and posts a FANTASY MASTERPIECES cover that Kirby inked, as well as the Bullpen hype that specifically mentioned that fact. I&#8217;d agree with Fred that it does look a lot like Giacoia&#8217;s inks of the period (such as a few of the other issues of FM around that), which I guess just means Giacoia was pretty faithful to Kirby&#8217;s pencils.<\/p>\n<p>That reminded me that it was in facted hyped even earlier than that, in this item from FF #45 in 1965, about 8 months before that FM cover:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/bullpen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3654\" alt=\"bullpen\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/bullpen.jpg\" width=\"382\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/bullpen.jpg 382w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/bullpen-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I recall Mark Evanier once posting somewhere that the last full story Kirby inked (as opposed to covers like this and poster\/pin-up stuff for MarvelMania) was a western for Marvel in the early 1960s, but I&#8217;m not sure which one that would be. Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Hembeck, in his Dec 10th entry, has a note from Mark Evanier mentioning that the MavelMania catalog cover Fred had posted last week was, in fact, inked by Kirby himself, and posts a FANTASY MASTERPIECES cover that Kirby inked, as well as the Bullpen hype that specifically mentioned that fact. I&#8217;d agree with Fred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","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=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}