59 YEARS AGO TODAY

This newly shipped Kirby cover might have given you a case of DEJAck VU

This Kirby-covered HOUSE OF MYSTERY would have been returned by the retailers for credit less than a month earlier.

Thor Heyerdahl's book AKU AKU sold out 4 printings by November 1958 pushing Easter Island & its distinctive statues into the mainstream zeitgeist of the waning Fifties era.

Maybe Kirby's story from TALES TO ASTONISH #5 could have appeared 8 years earlier if Kirby had read FATE in 1951. 

“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
― Thor Heyerdahl

59 YEARS AGO TODAY

Jack Kirby and Joe Simon create Spider Man!

60 YEARS AGO TODAY

If your New Year's resolution for 1958 was to buy every new comic with a cover by Kirby so far you would have had to buy 7 comics!

This is possibly Kirby's 350th cover.

62 YEARS AGO TODAY

If your New Year's resolution for 1956 was to buy every new comic with a cover by Kirby so far you would have had to buy only 6 comics!

This was the only war comic. Other than one western comic all the rest were romance covers.

76 YEARS AGO TODAY

With his first cover for DETECTIVE COMICS a complete collection of Kirby covers would consist of 37 comics . Kirby was assisted by Joe Simon, Jerry Robinson and Fred Ray.

 Kirby's first cover hit the marketplace slightly less than two years  earlier.

65 YEARS AGO TODAY

If your New Year's resolution for 1953 was to buy every new comic with a Kirby cover so far you would have had to buy only 3 comics!

And they all would have been BLACK MAGIC!!!

55 YEARS AGO TODAY: hard to beat this pair of Jacks

cover by Jack Kirby

13 page story by Jack Davis