The First Six – Iron Man & Tales of Suspense #39-44
It’s time to take a look at the early beginnings of Iron Man. I took a very long time deciding if I was going to post this, as I found these early books to be amongst the weakest of the…
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Review | Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four The World’s Greatest Artist’s Edition
Jack Kirby was the undisputed King of Comics and IDW is proud to present the second Artist’s Edition focusing on his Fantastic Four work. And, even better, this collects his earlier, “twice up” art–Kirby-sized!! This massive collection includes issues 33, 45, 47, and…
Fantastic Four #12-21
We’ll start 2018 off with another segment of Jack Kirby/Stan Lee’s terrific run of Fantastic Four #1-67. Although I have always personally thought “peak time” for this run was #44-60, you can make a pretty good case for the ten-issue…
When Giants Walked The Earth!
Well I am taking the lazy way out for the first post of 2018. I came across this fabulous 1994 Documentary of our fabulous hobby. So many of the greats have left us. Here, through the miracle of YouTube is…
Pencils with the King!
I have been working up for this, my last column of 2017 for the whole year. The idea came to mind as many do, completely by accident. Every once in awhile a Silver age page of Jack Kirby pencils makes its way…
Undervalued Spotlight #369
Tales to Astonish #59, Marvel Comics, September 1964. I was reading up on some Hulk history recently and was surprised at just how sparsely the big guy was used in the early days of Marvel. Hulk is one of the…
Web Arted #283
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Kirby, Royer, Buscema, Roussos, Raymond, Windsor-Smith, Steranko.
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The First Six: Sgt. Fury #1-6
Remembrance Day has just past so in this week’s arcs & runs we will take a look at the first six issues of Marvel’s World War II comic title Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. War comics were very popular…
Web Arted #281
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Adams, Toth, Austin, Ayers, Kirby, Colletta, Capp.
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Web Arted #280
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Heck, Esposito, Roussos, Buscema, Kirby, Royer, Lee, Williams, Giacoia.
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Web Arted #279
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Pope, Kirby, Royer, Ditko, Bellamy, Manning.
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Web Arted #278
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Darrow, Raymond, Kirby, Royer, Manning, Windsor-Smith.
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Web Arted #277
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: McManus, Beck, Kirby, Royer, Byrne, Giordano, Moreira.
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The Atlas Twins: Tales of Suspense & Tales to Astonish
Arcs & Runs #52. This is the third and final segment of the three- part series on Twins, featuring comic titles that began publishing at the same time and were in many ways bound together. It also fits well with…
Kirby 100: My First Kirby
Jack Kirby would be celebrating his 100th birthday this year, today in fact, and as deserved it’s a comic book celebration. I started collecting comics in 1980 and lucked into finding a great back issue resource at a local flea…
The Mighty Thor 145-152
Arcs & Runs #52. Our month-long celebration of Jack “King” Kirby’s 100th birthday continues in Arcs & Runs with a look at another one of Kirby’s long running characters the Mighty Thor. Thor has always been one of my favourite characters…
Jack Kirby 100
August 28th would have been Jack Kirby’s 100th birthday. This column is not going to recap his story so much, as there are a ton of articles and celebrations from people that actually knew the man, I only had the pleasure of…
Fantastic Four 25-30
Arcs & Runs #51. It’s time to take my semi-annual look at another segment of the landmark Kirby-Lee run on the Fantastic Four issues #1-67. We are on segment number five if you are counting (and I am). Early Fantastic…
Review | Jack Kirby The Forever People Artist’s Edition
Continuing IDW’s yearlong celebration of the centennial of Jack “King” Kirby’s birth! Jack Kirby’s classic Fourth World Epic told the story of a group of New Gods sent to Earth to oppose Darkseid. Featuring Beautiful dreamer, Big Bear, Moonrider, and…
Overvalued Overstreet | #14: Fantastic Four Annual #1
This week’s Overvalued spotlight falls on one of the great-granddaddies of Marvel Annuals – Fantastic Four Annual #1. A huge book back in 1963 it was, along with Strange Tales Annual #2, the first super-hero themed annuals produced by Marvel,…