44 YEARS AGO TODAY

Was this issue of KAMANDI inspired by writer/artist/editor Kirby eating a bad California seafood dinner?

43 YEARS AGO TODAY

1975 was a good year to be a Kirby enthusiast. The two 2 new Kirby-covered comics that you would find at the shops this week, like 19 of the 20 Kirby-covered comics already published that year, also contained Kirby interior art.

60 YEARS AGO

Jack Kirby penciled and inked (with the help of his wife Roz) 11 Green Arrow shorties for a total of 65 pages. As was the convention with the Fifties floppies all the stories began with a Splash Panel rather than a Splash Page.

78 YEARS AGO TODAY

THE WEEKLY KIRBY

KIRBY's 3rd PUBLISHED COVER IN 3 WEEKS!!!

57 YEARS AGO TODAY

TALES OF SUSPENSE #21 was the second issue of that title to have art by only Kirby and Ditko.

Dick Ayers inked the Kirby cover and the 18 Kirby interior pages.

54 YEARS AGO TODAY

If you had become a Marvel zombie within the last two years and had a quarter it would have been difficult to resist buying this comic with its 40 pages of Kirby art that would be new to you - plus 15 Ditko pages and 13 Heck pages!

55 YEARS AGO TODAY not only would you be able to find the Kirby-covered JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #95, TALES OF SUSPENSE #45 and KID COLT OUTLAW #112 at your local comic spinner rack.

There was also

Half of these six books had at least some Kirby interior artwork (FANTASTIC FOUR #18 was the only one with 100% Kirby art)