The Daily Kirby

Friday, October 20, 2017

56 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.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

41 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

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

50 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.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

51 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.

Gil Kane had more covers published that month if you also count ATOM #28 and GREEN LANTERN #49 from DC.

Monday, October 16, 2017

55 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)