{"id":252,"date":"2005-02-07T18:40:05","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T18:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/02\/07\/1976-annual-covers\/"},"modified":"2005-02-07T18:40:05","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T18:40:05","slug":"1976-annual-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/252","title":{"rendered":"1976 Annual covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kirby was used heavily as a cover artist for the 1976 Marvel annuals.<\/p>\n<p>THOR ANNUAL #5, 1976.  John Verpoorten inks.  You know, Odin and Zeus really should just fight their own battles rather than pitting their sons against each other.  <\/p>\n<p>AVENGERS ANNUAL #6, 1976.  Frank Giacoia inks.  Nice, but a bit cluttered.  And Captain America fighting the US Army, that&#8217;s just wrong&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #11, 1976.  Joe Sinnott.  The FF face off against the Invaders.  That&#8217;s a fun looking cover, especially Ben vs. Namor and the battling Torches.<\/p>\n<p>MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE ANNUAL #1, 1976.  Joe Sinnott again.  The Thing teams up with the Invaders spin-off group The Liberty Legion.  I always like how Kirby draws those Golden Age and faux-Golden Age characters, and of course Ben Grimm is his signature character.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby did two other covers for  1976 Marvel annuals, HULK, which was covered <a href=\"http:\/\/jackkirbycomics.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/cover-gallery-airboy-two-gun-kid-hulk.html\">here<\/a>, and CAPTAIN AMERICA, for which he also did the interiors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/jj4kk7a.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/dk36a.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/jkle6a.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/jjckeea.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirby was used heavily as a cover artist for the 1976 Marvel annuals. THOR ANNUAL #5, 1976. John Verpoorten inks. You know, Odin and Zeus really should just fight their own battles rather than pitting their sons against each other. AVENGERS ANNUAL #6, 1976. Frank Giacoia inks. Nice, but a bit cluttered. And Captain America [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}