NEW KIRBY HOMAGES IN YOUR LCS 4 YEARS AGO TODAY

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #2 

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(W) Dan Slott (A) Giuseppe Camuncoli (CA) Paolo Rivera 

ASTONISHING ANT-MAN #1 

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(W) Nick Spencer (A) Ramon Rosanas (CA) Tradd Moore 

KARNAK #1

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(W) Warren Ellis (A) Gerardo Zaffino (CA) Eric Powell 

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #2 

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(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) David Marquez (CA) Walt Simonson

SHIELD #11

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(W) Mark Waid (A) Howard Chaykin (CA) James Stokoe 

UNCANNY INHUMANS #1

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(W) Charles Soule (A) Steve McNiven, Brandon Peterson (CA) Arthur Adams

ON THE SPINNER RACKS 52 YEARS AGO TODAY

This was one of the rare months that another Marvel employee had more new covers published than Kirby!!!

Kirby covered twice as many Marvels as George Tuska, Marie Severin, Don Heck, John Romita, Dan Adkins, Dick Ayers, Steve Ditko or Ogden Whitney.

But Gene Colan covered three, making him the Marvel King of Covers for that month.

Fun Fact: October 1967 was also one of those even rarer months when Marvel didn't reprint ANY Kirby art.

43 YEARS AGO TODAY

5 comics went on sale with new Kirby covers.

These two also each had 17 pages written and drawn by Kirby. (Royer did the inking on both)

NOVA #5, AVENGERS #155 and DEFENDERS #43 were the 3 Kirby-cover-only comics

ON THE SPINNER RACKS 53 YEARS AGO TODAY:

 71 pages of Kirby art for 50 cents! 

ON THE SPINNER RACKS 58 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.

ON THE SPINNER RACKS 57 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)

96 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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