{"id":4319,"date":"2017-06-29T22:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T02:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2017-06-30T00:57:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T04:57:48","slug":"lone-shark-k040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/4319","title":{"rendered":"“Lone Shark” (k040)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Lone Shark” is a 7-page Simon&Kirby story from Prize’s BLACK MAGIC #33 [vol. 5 no. 3] [1954],<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is the\u00a0story of a shark who, as a result of undersea atomic explosions, grows a tumor that serves as a second brain, giving it human level intelligence. What really makes the story special is that it\u2019s told from the perspective of the shark.<\/p>\n

I fell in love with this story based on the splash page when it was shown in THE JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR. I couldn\u2019t not buy it when I saw a copy for sale. It doesn\u2019t disappoint (and fortunately is now more widely available). From the punny title on, it\u2019s a masterpiece, with a nice sense of humour in the shark\u2019s \u201cvoice\u201d, complaining about the scavenger fish that follow him around, expressing curiosity, complaining about those damn headaches. He becomes almost sympathetic by the end. And the artwork looks great, following his undersea roamings. Definitely a highlight of the later days of the classic S&K team.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.comics.org\/issue\/11684\/#681967
\nTHE SIMON AND KIRBY LIBRARY – HORROR [2014]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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