Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
71 YEARS AGO TODAY
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A CRIME IF YOU DIDN'T GET THESE TWO KIRBY-COVERED COMICS FOR CHRISTMAS! (one of which is probably Kirby's 150th published cover)
And they also had two Kirby-illustrated stories each, adding up to 41 pages.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
NEW KIRBY HOMAGES IN YOUR LCS 3 YEARS AGO TODAY
ALL NEW ALL DIFFERENT AVENGERS #1
KIRBY MONSTER VARIANT - $4.99
Friday, November 9, 2018
ON THE SPINNER RACKS 57 YEARS AGO TODAY. Kirby or Ditko?
Two Morrow's 1998 FINAL EDITION JACK KIRBY CHECKLIST lists the cover of STRANGE
TALES #93 as being Ditko embellishing Kirby pencils. As does http://www.comics.org/issue/16780/ and Mike's Amazing World.
However http://ditkocultist.com claims
it is actually the first cover of STRANGE TALES that Ditko both penciled and
inked....
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Ever wonder why scientists of the 1960 proto-Marvel Universe thought it was a good idea to supersize insects?
Increasing the length of Kirby's giant menace stories to 13 pages made it possible to add such details. This story is from TALES TO ASTONISH #14. Like the previous issue, it also had a Kirby/Ditko cover.
Friday, October 5, 2018
47 YEARS AGO TODAY
The equally-sized panel layout perfectly highlights the King's cinematic sensibilities.

Plus the 10 page story from 75 years ago that featured a Pre-Marvel Kirby Thor was reprinted.
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
57 YEARS AGO TODAY
In slightly less than 3 years 25 issues of TALES TO ASTONISH were published.
96% of the issues had Kirby covers.
88% of the issues had interior Kirby art for a total 226 pages.
96% of the issues had interior Ditko art for a total 116 pages
76% of the issues had interior Heck art for a total 103 pages
32% of the issues had interior Reinman art for a total 38 pages
20% of the issues had interior Sinnott art for a total 25 pages.
Summer 1961 Kirby art from TALES TO ASTONISH #25 with comics' biggest
competitor (television, Pong hadn't been invented yet) threatening the
world!
The same issue presents a Heck 5 pager about the wisdom of robbing a Gypsy,
no matter how isolated his house is.
And Steve (the closer) Ditko completes the issue with a haunted house five pager.
Sunday, July 15, 2018
91 YEARS AGO TODAY
Jack Abel was born. He became a Kirby inker after having been a penciler earlier in his career.
Abel inks Kirby's second Groot cover.
Monday, July 2, 2018
Sunday, July 1, 2018
76 YEARS AGO TODAY
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Sunday, June 10, 2018
Friday, June 8, 2018
72 YEARS AGO TODAY
If your New Year's resolution for 1946 was to buy every new comic with a cover by Kirby so far you would have had to buy 11 comics.
Five of them would have been STAR SPANGLED.
Thursday, June 7, 2018
62 YEARS AGO TODAY
4 more Kirby covers went on sale bringing his 1956 total up to 12.
All but 3 of them were romance covers.
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Saturday, May 12, 2018
6 YEARS AGO TODAY
MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS knocked LETHAL WEAPON 3 off the bottom of the 200 All Time Domestic Box Office (Adjusted
for Ticket Price Inflation) List. LETHAL WEAPON 3
took in $145 million in 1992 which equaled $276 million in 2012 dollars.
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
The Red Skull was a hacker before hacking was cool! Plus the real reason that the Nazi's lost the war. Was that Kirby-suggested dialog or an example of Lee's character-defining writing without which comic characters would be just empty suits?
from CAPTAIN AMERICA #104
Monday, April 30, 2018
In 1963 Marvel published 142 comics.
100 had Kirby covers and 53 had interior Kirby art totaling 919 pages. 2 reprinted 30 Kirby pages.
One of the 9 Kirby-cover-only issues of TALES OF SUSPENSE that hit the shops in 1963. (embellishment by Ayers.)
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Thursday, March 29, 2018
1 YEAR AGO TODAY
ATTENTION KIRBY COMPLETISTS
THE THIRD NEW KIRBY COVER FOR 2017
INHUMANS PRIME #1
INHUMANS PRIME #1
(10 copy incentive Kirby Variant cover)
Thursday, January 11, 2018
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1968 was not even two weeks old but already four Marvel comics had new Kirby art in them.
Three of them also had Kirby covers. Speedy penciler Kirby managed to keep four inkers employed!
Three of them also had Kirby covers. Speedy penciler Kirby managed to keep four inkers employed!
CAPTAIN AMERICA #100 - Kirby/Shores cover
"This Monster Unmasked" (20 Kirby/Shores pages)
THOR #150 - Kirby/Colletta cover
"Even in Death" (16 Kirby/Colletta pages)
"Triton" (Inhumans) (5 Kirby/Sinnott pages)
FANTASTIC FOUR #73 - Kirby/Sinnott cover
"The Flames of Battle" (20 Kirby/Sinnott pages)
NOT BRAND ECHH #7
"The Origin of the Fantastical Four" (8 pages of Kirby layouts/Marie Severin pencils/ Tom Sutton inks)
"This Monster Unmasked" (20 Kirby/Shores pages)
THOR #150 - Kirby/Colletta cover
"Even in Death" (16 Kirby/Colletta pages)
"Triton" (Inhumans) (5 Kirby/Sinnott pages)
FANTASTIC FOUR #73 - Kirby/Sinnott cover
"The Flames of Battle" (20 Kirby/Sinnott pages)
NOT BRAND ECHH #7
"The Origin of the Fantastical Four" (8 pages of Kirby layouts/Marie Severin pencils/ Tom Sutton inks)
And if that wasn't enough Kirby awesomeness for you and you'd been reading comics for less than five years there were 27 Kirby pages reprinted in MARVEL COLLECTORS' ITEM CLASSICS #14 that would be new to you.
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