{"id":208,"date":"2005-01-06T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/01\/06\/genre-cover-six-pack\/"},"modified":"2005-01-06T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T19:37:00","slug":"genre-cover-six-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/208","title":{"rendered":"Genre Cover Six-Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six great covers from six different genres, all of which Kirby did classic work in for many years. <\/p>\n<p>FOXHOLE #1, 1954. &#8211; This is just an amazingly brutal war cover.  Very strong concept, amazingly detailed rendering, and very good colour (I&#8217;m not sure if Kirby had a hand in the colouring, but the watercolour stuff from the late 1960s and 1970s that he apparently did solo show a similar colour sense to this).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/fh001.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>POLICE TRAP #3, 1954.  I wonder if an alternate name for this title was POLICE BRUTALITY?  Anyway, a nice real-world version of the hard hitting action that Kirby pretty much defined in the super-hero books.  Man, all those Mainline books look nice.  It would have been interesting to see what they&#8217;d have become if the timing was better (as discussed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twomorrows.com\/kirby\/articles\/25mainline.html\">TJKC #25<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/pt003.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>FIRST LOVE ILLUSTRATED #70, 1956.  Here&#8217;s a nice quiet romance cover, with the usual tension under the surface.  I want to draw particular attention on this one to the rendering on the woman&#8217;s hair and the flowers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/fli70.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>KID COLT OUTLAW #83, 1959.  Unlike some other major western stars of the Marvel\/Atlas line, Kid Colt continued on without a Kirby re-design.  Kirby did draw a whole bunch of covers for the book (including on GUNSMOKE WESTERN which also featured Kid Colt), though, starting with this one.  Inked by Christopher Rule according to the Kirby checklist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/kco83.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>WORLD OF FANTASY #17, 1959.  More Rule.  A fun science-fantasy scene designed to draw you in.  An amusing looking robot, and I like the cape the guy is wearing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/wf017.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>AMAZING FANTASY #15, 1962.  Almost certainly the most famous cover-only Kirby book, it&#8217;s well known that Steve Ditko did a similar cover solo first, from an angle above the action.  Both are great covers, but I prefer this one.  It just leaps right out. I do wonder why Spidey is announcing his secret identity to that guy he&#8217;s carrying (which is a problem on both versions).  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/af15.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six great covers from six different genres, all of which Kirby did classic work in for many years. FOXHOLE #1, 1954. &#8211; This is just an amazingly brutal war cover. 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