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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 18, 2020 1:31:10 GMT -5
If I'm remembering this right, Kirby did know and communicate with SF writer A.E. Van Vogt once he was in California. Van Vogt is famous for his book Slan (published in 1940!), which was a superhuman or mutant powered race.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 18, 2020 1:33:08 GMT -5
I liked Roy Thomas on Avengers and X-Men a lot. No complaints on Invaders or All-Star Squadron either.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 18, 2020 10:35:57 GMT -5
If I'm remembering this right, Kirby did know and communicate with SF writer A.E. Van Vogt once he was in California. Van Vogt is famous for his book Slan (published in 1940!), which was a superhuman or mutant powered race. Wouldn't surprise me. Van Vogt is one of my favourite authors. A terrible writer but seriously bonkers imagination.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2020 13:40:24 GMT -5
No reason to share this other than it being one of my favourite Kirby images:
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 18, 2020 14:47:22 GMT -5
Aha! 1984 and a background character wearing a Pork Pie hat - and a girl with a 1960s flipped bob haircut. Still a great cover though.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2020 14:50:40 GMT -5
Aha! 1984 and a background character wearing a Pork Pie hat - and a girl with a 1960s flipped bob haircut. Still a great cover though. Maybe they were just fans of retro. The first issue of Super Powers was reprinted in the UK by - wait for it! - Marvel UK.
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Post by berkley on Jan 18, 2020 20:59:36 GMT -5
For me, it would be a true "artist's edition" only if it reproduced the artist's pencils without inks.
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Post by tarkintino on Jan 18, 2020 21:43:41 GMT -5
I liked Roy Thomas on Avengers and X-Men a lot. No complaints on Invaders or All-Star Squadron either. Thomas made The Avengers an important team book. No one before or following him ever approached his sense of exploring the members as individuals, giving them heart and purpose, while the conflicts were as explosive as anything seen in 1960s/70s Fantastic Four.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 18, 2020 21:51:57 GMT -5
Aha! 1984 and a background character wearing a Pork Pie hat - and a girl with a 1960s flipped bob haircut. Maybe they were into the Ska and Paisley Underground scenes respectively? Edit: Oops! Looks like @taxidriver1980 kinda beat me to the gag. That'll teach me not to read to the end of the thread before posting.
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Post by rberman on Jan 18, 2020 22:02:45 GMT -5
Aha! 1984 and a background character wearing a Pork Pie hat - and a girl with a 1960s flipped bob haircut. Maybe they were into the Ska and Paisley Underground scenes respectively? Edit: Oops! Looks like @taxidriver1980 kinda beat me to the gag. That'll teach me not to read to the end of the thread before posting. I suspect it's supposed to be a fedora rather than a pork pie hat given the wearer, but due to low detail it could theoretically be either.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 18, 2020 22:05:15 GMT -5
Maybe they were into the Ska and Paisley Underground scenes respectively? Edit: Oops! Looks like @taxidriver1980 kinda beat me to the gag. That'll teach me not to read to the end of the thread before posting. I suspect it's supposed to be a fedora rather than a pork pie hat given the wearer, but due to low detail it could theoretically be either. I think you're probably right.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2020 12:53:11 GMT -5
To save me checking the preview pages for all 76 issues of The Jack Kirby Collector, does anyone know if a particular issue covered his Super Powers work? I'd like to order a back issue.
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Post by String on Jan 19, 2020 14:14:38 GMT -5
For me, it's Kirby. I'm more readily engaged by the power and energy of his art. He is the only artist for whom I will stop and take the time to reflect upon his fight/battle scenes. The more epic the tale or characters, the more vibrancy there is in his art. Then there's his sheer unlimited imagination. The man was never wont for new ideas, themes or characters even into his senior years. It's astounding really. I think it was Frank Miller who remarked something along the lines of, "It's hard to come up with something new in this medium that Jack Kirby hadn't already thought of." (I think he said that in reference to Marvel's burgeoning efforts in the then-new concept of the limited mini-series).
Mention has been made of the FF, maybe even Avengers but for me, it's Thor. Kirby's Thor is one of the best comic works that I've ever read, the perfect combination of sci-fi and epic mythology wrapped up in the unbridled power of Kirby's visuals. It says something that some 20 years after the fact, Ron Frenz was able to channel some of the same type of energy in his collaboration with DeFalco on their Thor run and why I love that period of the character so much as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2020 15:45:18 GMT -5
For me, it's Kirby. I'm more readily engaged by the power and energy of his art. He is the only artist for whom I will stop and take the time to reflect upon his fight/battle scenes. Same here. And it was such a good form of escapism for me. I'm not saying others didn't have that talent, but while reading any Kirby comic, I would stop and reflect upon the various battle scenes. And it all felt so "real" to me. If we were to think about it too hard, we'd realise that comic characters are just inanimate drawings on our page. But, no, we choose to immerse ourselves in these fantastical worlds. And Kirby made it easy for me to do that.
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 19, 2020 15:59:33 GMT -5
For me, it would be a true "artist's edition" only if it reproduced the artist's pencils without inks. Of course the original art for comics is inked, though some of these, like New Gods, also have some pencil art. There are also those Artist Editions by artists who inked their own work. But part of the joy is to see the artwork we know from the published comic in it's original glory.
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