57 YEARS AGO TODAY

Kirby's 23rd cover for STRANGE TALES was in the stores, putting him two STRANGE TALES covers ahead of Bill Everett.

 It was the first STRANGE TALES sequential panel cover.

52 YEARS AGO TODAY

October of 1966 was one of the rare months that Kirby didn't have more new Marvel covers published than anybody else!

He was tied with Gene Colan, Larry Lieber, Stan Goldberg and Gil Kane at two.

 

56 YEARS AGO TODAY

All seven Kirby-covered Marvel comics that were available from your dealer were embellished by a man that considered inker to be a derogatory term.

Kirby and Ayers also teamed up for a total of 68 story pages spread among these five comics.

“Stan told me he was hiring me not to trace. I was to add, to embellish.” – Dick Ayers (from THE JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #13)

95 YEARS AGO TODAY

Kirby's most controversial inker was born.

   An example of Kirby/Colletta crackle from the first Thor story that I ever read.

Why is Vince Colletta considered controversial?

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NEW KIRBY HOMAGES IN THE SHOPS 3 YEARS AGO TODAY

A-FORCE #5 

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(CA) Chris Samnee 

CAPTAIN AMERICA WHITE #3 

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(CA) Glenn Fabry 

CIVIL WAR #5 

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(CA) John Cassaday

                       

GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #1 

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(CA) Mike Allred 

MS MARVEL #19 

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(CA) Cliff Chiang

SPIDER-GWEN #1 

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(CA) Francesco Francavilla 

UNCANNY AVENGERS #1 

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(CA) Geof Darrow 

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56 YEARS AGO TODAY

The third time TALES OF SUSPENSE featured only two story artists Kirby was NOT one of the artists.

He DID do the cover though 

(with Ayers embellishing.)

Ditko and Reinman were the interior artists.

46 YEARS AGO TODAY did Marvel think that Gil Kane could improve on Kirby?

WHERE MONSTERS DWELL #19 reprinted the entire contents of TALES OF SUSPENSE #24 from 11 years earlier.

The first two of the four stories are penciled by Kirby and embellished by Ayers. 

But the only thing Marvel didn't reprint was the Kirby/Ayers cover!?!