#anthologycomics

I got an email today letting me know an anthology comic I contributed to, “Dates 3: An Anthology of Queer Historical Fiction Stories” is up for an ignatz award for outstanding anthology! I’m so excited, not just for me, but for the dozens of other contributors and everyone else involved! If you would like to support please feel free to vote here: https://www.smallpressexpo.com/ignatz-2020-voting • • • • • #anthologycomic #anthologycomics #ignatz #dates3 #queercomics #queerart https://www.instagram.com/p/CEnbl5kDVVQ/?igshid=1ovg3erdqmwrn

#JackedKirby - The Psychic Bloodhound!!! 👀👀👀 DC has a new 1400+ page omnibus of Jack Kirby’s Bronze Age work that just hit stores. It carries a $100 plus price tag (you can find it for under cover price online... shop around!) but it is JAM PACKED with a ton of stuff that has not seen reprint in quite a long time (or in some cases never reprinted at all!). One of the coolest additions to this collection is a single story from #Issue 6 of Forbidden Tales of the Dark Mansion (August of 1972) called The Psychic Bloodhound!!! 👀👀👀 The story, written/drawn by Kirby and inked by Mike Royer, appears in a split anthology book and tells the story of Karl Burkel, a psychic mind reader who the cops consult often to solve cold cases with no leads. He is able to access this power by touch... if he can make contact with a person he can gain a visual insight into that person and their activities (Pic 1/2). We get an incredible trademark Kirby “eye shot” of Burkel’s intense eyes as he is focusing his powers in Pic 1... 👀👀👀 In Pics 3/4 we see Burkel’s power in action again... specifically a three panel sequence where Kirby uses what seems to be X-Ray overlays to illustrate the action of reading the subjects minds (Pic 4). This sequence is incredible... 👀👀👀 The story was intended to be published in Spirit World #issue2 but Kirby’s supernatural tabloid size magazine never got a second issue... so the unused story was put to good use in this anthology comic, of which Kirby had worked on hundreds of similar issues back during his time at Timely/Atlas/Marvel. This is the story in the new Bronze Age Omnibus I cant wait to read the most!!! 👀👀👀 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #ForbiddenTalesOfTheDarkMansion #AnthologyComics #HorrorComics #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #BronzeAge #BronzeAgeComics #IGComics #ComicsOfIG #DCComics #Omnibus #KirbyOmnibus https://www.instagram.com/p/B0rXEzOBiy5/?igshid=1gx6x6778fhhh

#JackedKirby - The Living Colossus en Espanol!!!! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽 Viva la Mexico.... especially when it comes to classic reprint comics baby!!!! Here we have #Issue162 of El Hal Con Negro, published sometime in 1962 (finding an exact month of release has proven tough!) and featuring art that may seem familiar to Kirby aficionados. 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽 The art comes from Tales of Suspense #Issue14 that was published in February of 1961... but in a strange turn of events the Mexican Reprint seen in Pic 1 used the opening splash page of the Tales of Suspense issue instead of the original cover art! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽 Pic 1 shows the Mexican Reprint, and Pic 2/3 show the excellent interior splash page art in its inked and originally colored form. El Hal Con Negro was a continuation of another Mexican reprint title, El Hal Con Oro, which was a long running reprint series that featured DC comics Blackhawk military series through the years. Sometime around 1961/62 the Mexican mag switched the title from Oro (gold) to Negro (Black) and began reprinting early Marvel Monster anthologies like this one... smart choice to go with the interior splash on the cover rather then the TOS cover, because Kirby’s Colossus from the interior is much more dynamic!!! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #ElHalconNegro #ElHalConOro #TalesOfSuspense #TheLivingColossus #AnthologyComics #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #60sComics #ComicsOfThe60s #IGComics #IGComicCommunity #ComicsOfIG #ComicsOfInstagram #MexicanReprintComics #ReprintComics https://www.instagram.com/p/BwFMBOjBYVH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=k7zl7nmwnkpe

#JackedKirby - World Of Fantasy... Kirby Style!!! 💥💥💥 Before the important anthology books of Marvel like Tales to Astonish, Tales of Suspense and Amazing Fantasy could give us our beloved Marvel superheroes of the 60s there was another anthology book.... this one was published by Atlas (the precursor to Marvel in name) and was called World of Fantasy. It ran 18 issues from 1956-1959 and featured many of the greatest penciling talents of the industry... Bill Everett, Don Heck, Ross Andru, Gene Colan, Dick Ayers, Joe Sinnott, Steve Ditko... and of course King Kirby! 💥💥💥 Kirby had just returned to Atlas after leaving over a debacle over the rights to Captain America and working at National Comics & Mainline comics... and he was just in time to immediately get to work in World of Fantasy! 💥💥💥 Jack did the pencils on the covers for #Issue16 (April of 1959) #Issue17 (June of 1959) and #Issue18 (August of 1959) featured in pics 1/2/3 of this post. All three covers were inked by the great Christoper Rule... and Jack also added interior pencils on some of the issues as well. 💥💥💥 This anthology series laid the groundwork for what was to come from Marvel, the non stop barrage of hit after hit that would result in the Comic empire we all know today!!! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #Kirby #KingKirby #WorldOfFantasy #AnthologyComics #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #50sComics #ComicsOfThe50s #igcomics #comicsofig #ComicsOfInstagram #AtlasComics #ChristopherRule #SteveDitko #GeneColan #DickAyers #JoeSinnott https://www.instagram.com/p/BuHzXpKBQ9d/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bfy3kkpi1tuh

#JackedKirby - Laid Out!!! 💥💥💥 One thing that Jack was known to do in his early 60s Marvel comics is utilize a similar pose for a character numerous times in the same issue. On a previous post we documented how he re-drew a Thor cover for an interior panel (go look back a few weeks... it’s there!) and we’ve noticed another instance of it from Tales of Suspense #Issue94 (published in October of 1967). 💥💥💥 In the opening splash page we see Cap being held at gunpoint by an AIM agent laid flat on his back... there is nothing really significant about this pose other then the vulnerable state Cap seems to be in. Not used to seeing him so helpless like this.... 💥💥💥 But later in the issue we find Cap in yet another “laid out” pose... he is helpless on the floor as he is being sucked through the floor. It is not exactly the same pose, but I find it very unlikely Kirby didn’t purposely repeat this “flat on the back” pose since he often had done that in the past... either way, a cool double use of “helpless” Cap in one of the final issues before the character was relaunched in his own monthly title!!! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #Kirby #KingKirby #Cap #CaptainAmerica #TalesOfSuspense #AnthologyComics #RepeatPoses #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #Helpless #60sComics #ComicsOfThe60s #IGComics #IGComicCommunity #comicsofIG #ComicsOfInstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BuPEMd2hpoE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xi5vwm0d06md

#JackedKirby - The Imps From Pandora’s Box!!! 💥💥💥 As the company started to transition from anthology to super hero books with the success of the FF, there are a few instances where both were present in a single issue. Take Strange Tales #Issue109 from June of 1963. 💥💥💥 Release just a year and a half after FF #issue1 hit stands, this issue features our boy Johnny heading off on his own to get away from his teammates for some peace and quiet. Unfortunately he ends up wronging a local curmudgeon who also happens to posses Pandora’s Box... and the evil imps that reside inside it! 💥💥💥 The story is funny and not really all that believable as threatening to Johnny (it was plotted by Lee and written by Robert Bernstein) but it does feature some really dope creature designs from Jack. I especially love the issue opening splash page (pic 2) and the cool “demon riding a wave” looking to splash down on The Human Torch! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #StrangeTales #HumanTorch #FF #FantasticFour #AnthologyComics #PandorasBox #KirbySplashPages #KirbySplash #SplashPage #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #igcomicfamily #igcomiccommunity #igcomics #ComicsOfThe60s #60sComics https://www.instagram.com/p/Bou_8_lnjy9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3y2r989pp8cw

#JackedKirby - What Price Victory? 💥💥💥 I for one love it when Jack gets a shot to draw a character from his past that he isn’t quite as known for.... and this issue is the last time he would draw Iron Man on a cover in a LONG time! 💥💥💥 Tales of Suspense #Issue71 came out in November of 1965 when the book was a split between Captain America and Shellhead. At the time both were getting these feature stories in addition to appearing in The Avengers, although some thought was being put towards which characters from the anthology books could carry their own series. The cover rotated month to month, with Iron Man on one month and Cap on the next... and even though he was only doing pencils on the Cap portion of the interiors Jack would often do ALL the covers, even if it was an Iron Man month. Don Heck would usually do the Iron Man story pencils. But that would soon change.... 💥💥💥 Gene “The Dean” Colman is widely recognized as one of the premier Marvel artists of the 60s/70s and his most famous work is on Iron Man. Once he began drawing the interior Stan also decided he could do the covers for that months Tales of Suspense.... which meant Jack would get a break! Not really.... it meant Jack had a bit more time to probably do something else! But Colan’s Iron Man art is awesome, and so were his covers. They remain an important part of his legacy throughout his tenure at Marvel! 💥💥💥 This cover represents the last time Jack had Iron Man cover duties on the title. Featuring Iron Man battling The Titanium Man, we get Tony in a vintage Kirby action pose delivering a fistful of Iron to his enemy!!! A fitting farewell for Kirby’s time portraying the character on these beautiful covers! As a side note I also really like the title card on this series.... giving equal billing and using the specific font and color scheme to both characters! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #TalesOfSuspense #Cap #CaptainAmerica #IronMan #Shellhead #DonHeck #GeneColan #KirbyCovers #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #60sComics #ComicsOfThe60s #AnthologyComics #TitaniumMan #igcomics #igcomicfamily #igcomiccommunity #ComicsOfIg #ComicsOfInstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BnpRaS7HQ0-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1i0n761vrz8ak

#JackedKirby - Jack’s first work for DC Comics.... technically! 💥💥💥 Life was good for Jack Kirby and his studio partner Joe Simon in the early 40s. They had a million issue selling book on their hands on Captain America, they were putting together a great partnership and planning to open a studio together to expand their reach. But one thing they felt was that Timely Comics (the former name of Marvel Comics) wasn’t paying them enough per week/month considering how much Cap was selling. So they negotiated a secret deal with Timely’s main competition, National Publications (would later become DC Comics), to secure a bigger pay day and jump ship! 💥💥💥 The plan was to keep on the Cap book for a few more months while they began character creation for titles they would do at National... but word got back to Martin Goodman (Timely’s Editor) And they were told to hit the bricks. So they jumped over to National! 💥💥💥 The first story they worked on was a Sandman story for Adventure Comics #Issue72 (published in March of 1942) entitled “The Riddle of the Slave Market”. Kirby is given sole writing and penciling credit on this story in the anthology comic. 💥💥💥 In the story Wesley Dodd (Sandman) and his boy sidekick Sandy tackle some human trafficking... light hearted stuff! Lol. This began an on again/off again relationship between Jack & DC Comics for the next 45+ years! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #AdventureComics #AnthologyComics #JoeSimon #SimonAndKirby #NationalComics #TimelyComics #DCComics #MarvelComics #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #HappyBirthdayJack #JackKirby101 #HappyBirthday #KirbysFirstDCStory #Pencils #Inks #Story https://www.instagram.com/p/BnCmAuLny2y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mz9f9xn2eij9