Thursday, August 28, 2014

Double Kirby on his 97th

Now I really do feel small and insignificant.
Bonus special interest link for Gorham.
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JMG added. My Kirby addition:

Plus The SILVER SURFER ENCOUNTERS THE CELESTIALS. Stuff like this just blows my mind. Jack was really one of them you know. Had to be.

10 comments:

JMG said...

AWESOME!!!! No one could do this like Jack.

JMG said...

Thanks for the headgear stuff too.

Rickart said...

I read all the Demon stuff a couple of years ago. Fun, inventive stuff... and by his own admission the 'Weird Adventure' (horror tinged hero comics) wasn't really his thing. Who else would have the gall to invent a character named Baron Von Evilstien?

JMG said...

Jack Kirby that's who. He came up with ALL kinds of crazy things.....his drawing board was endless. I known a few who just DON'T like Kirby and I've never understood that.

Tom Moon said...

If Jack Kirby fought Frank Frazetta, who would win?

MrGoodson2 said...

That is good nerd speak Tom. Worthy of slipping into a Big Bang Theory at least.
It would be a tie but a fight to the death. And then some Kirby inspired cosmic force would have to unite their artistic spirit into a new entity. Fritz-Jack

Tom Moon said...

Or Frankirby... or Jackzetta...

Rickart said...

Great question, Tom. Frazetta is buff, but Kirby is scrappy and a proven warrior.

BTW, I always saw this as a tribute to Kirby (watch it all the way through):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0pcChyV6o4

Tom Moon said...

Yes, I can see that. Dan Turpin's Wikipedia entry says that in the animated series he was modeled on Kirby.

Frazetta was eleven years younger than Kirby so I guess age is a factor in their fight, and whether it was bare fists or armed combat. Let's say they fought bare-knuckles in 1968. Frazetta is 40 and Kirby is 51. The paperback version of "Conan the Adventurer" has just been published. Kirby is at Marvel and at his artistic peak. Sounds like a Brush Pen Breakfast subject to me.

Hey, whaddya mean "nerd speak"?!

Davis Chino said...

So good.

Middle image: That is one cosmic thumb!!