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#JackedKirby - Flashback to an In Store Meeting with The King of Comics!!! 💥💥💥 I saw this pic posted over in the Jack Kirby! Facebook group by Jose Luis Moral and I was mesmerized by the magic of it. In the pic you see a young man looking down at Kirby’s table, having a convo with the King himself. And behind Jack we see his loving wife Roz. It has to be from 81/82 because you can see various Pacific Comics titles in the background on the shelves!!! 💥💥💥 The thing that stood out to me was the portfolio book towards the bottom of the pic that has a large splash page on display (closeup is pic 2). The character on display here is Stuntman, the 1946 Simon and Kirby creation for Harvey Comics. The page was part of Kirby’s Masterworks portfolio from 1978 and can be seen in its pencil form in pic 3 of this post... absolutely gorgeous!!! 💥💥💥 It was a lot of fun reverse searching the elements of this picture to figure out what that page was. It caught my eye immediately and I wasn’t sure what it was... but I’m glad I figured it out. I would LOVE to get my hands on one of those 1978 portfolios. Someday... one cool piece of trivia about Stuntman: it featured a couple of characters with very alliterative names Don Daring and Sandra Sylvan. I thought Stan was the genius writer who came up with those awesome alliterative names for Marvel??? 🤔🤔🤔 Weird.... Lol 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #Portfolios #MomAndPopComicShops #InStoreAppearance #Roz #80sComics #ComicsOfThe80s #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #Stuntman #SimonAndKirby #40sComics #ComicsOfThe40s Shout our to follower and friend @jasincadic for also sending this over to us!!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/B8TziYSBBjU/?igshid=1y2hdqjj79sy

#JackedKirby - Enter the World of Daring Mystery Comics!!! 💥💥💥 I love me some Golden Age Simon & Kirby, so when I saw this cover I had to delve in and do some research. The middle figure (The Thunderer) appealed to me most... who were these amazing characters I had never heard of? 💥💥💥 From left to right on the cover we have: Captain Daring, The Fin, The Thunderer, Citizen V and Blue Diamond. On the bottom in the inset we have The Silver Scorpion, the only lady of the bunch. 💥💥💥 The credits page (pic 2) tells us who worked on the actual interiors of these stories. Credits were wonky back then, but here they go: Captain Daring - Frank Borth The Fin - Bill Everett The Thunderer - Ed Robbins Citizen V - Tom Benson Blue Diamond - Ben Thompson The Silver Scorpion - Harry Sable 💥💥💥 Simon and Kirby were pinch hitting on this cover as they were on their way out the door of Timely and over to National (DC Comics) to begin work on The Sandman. 1941 had been a banner year for Timely and Simon/Kirby with the launch of Cap in March... but despite large sales and huge popularity problems over money led to them shoving off. This book, Daring Mystery Comics #Issue8 is dated January of 1942, so that means they completed it sometime in late 1941. This anthology series came to an end with this issue, and was recycled into a comedy anthology book shortly after. But not before we got to see Simon and Kirby’s excellent takes on these awesome Golden Age characters!!! 💥💥💥 Which of these 6 characters do you find the most interesting design? Leave a comment below!!! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #DaringMysteryComics #GoldenAgeComics #40sComics #ComicsOfThe40s #TimelyComics #Marvel #CaptainDaring #TheFin #TheThunderer #CitizenV #BlueDiamond #TheSilverScorpion #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #IGcomics #ComicsOfIG https://www.instagram.com/p/B0TTqrehSL-/?igshid=1nmziptrsc5g

#JackedKirby - HAPPY 102nd Birthday Jack!!!! Pt 4 🎂🎂🎂 Today we are celebrating what would have been Jack’s 102nd birthday... and we are gonna look at a few #Issue102 for this special day! 🎂🎂🎂 Here is the cover for Adventure Comics #Issue102 from February of 1946. It features Jack drawing The Sandman and Sandy, in their last golden age appearance!!! Happy Birthday King... 🎂🎂🎂 #HappyBirthday #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #AdventureComics #Sandman #Sandy #40sComics #ComicsOfThe40s #HappyBirthdayKing #Happy102 https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ugbXlB0IB/?igshid=13a176ymn40dl

#JackedKirby - Enter... The Buzzard!!! 💥💥💥 The character of Manhunter first appeared in Adventure Comics #Issue58 and went by the name of Paul Kirk. In #Issue73 of the series (published in April of 1942) Jack Kirby and Joe Simon took over the character and introduced another alter ego for him... Rick Nelson (although they would change it back to Paul Kirk next issue. Weirdness for another post!). But today we are gonna focus on his first villain... The Buzzard!!! 💥💥💥 The Buzzard is a costumed criminal who is making a name for himself terrorizing Empire City... robbing the rich and the police can do nothing about it! When Nelson’s good friend Officer Donovan meets his demise at the Buzzard’s hands, Nelson takes on the costumed hero persona of the Manhunter to track him down and bring him to justice!!! 💥💥💥 I love the design of this character, whose style and design looks like some future Kirby creations to come. In some ways the face looks a lot like Annihulus to me... almost insect like in its proportions. Maybe it’s the green costume that is making me think of Annihilus... he also reminds me a lot of Ditko’s early incarnations of The Vulture from the pages of Spider-Man. Either way, I love how Kirby & Simon used alternate lay out ideas and non traditional grids to bring this golden age story to life! A classic rogue... who is of course unmasked and defeated by the hero in the end!!! (Pic 4 of course!). 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #Manhunter #DCComics #AdventureComics #NationalComics #TheBuzzard #SimonAndKirby #JoeSimon #GoldenAgeComics #ComicsOfThe40s #40sComics #GoldenAge #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #IGcomics #ComicsOfIG #AnthologyComics #PaulKirk #RickNelson #KirbyVillains https://www.instagram.com/p/BzGPVV1BtHf/?igshid=1s9ic06genyar

#JackKirby - The Commandos Are Coming!!! 💥💥💥 Jack Kirby and Joe Simon are most well known for co-creating Captain America... but what if I told you they had another war themed comic creation besides the Star Spangled hero... and came from DC Comics, not Marvel??? 💥💥💥 The Boy Commandos first appeared in June of 1942 in Detective Comics #Issue64 over at DC Comics. Having left Timely Comics (now Marvel) over a royalties discrepancy, they were hired by National (DC) Comics and allowed to create numerous titles. The Sandman, Manhunter and others were produced... but one of their most successful creations had to be The Boy Commandos!!! 💥💥💥 The team consists of: Andre (France), Alfie (Britain), Jan (Netherlands) and Brooklyn (USA)... all kid soldiers from around the globe stationed in Europe. They are led by Captain Rip Carter and fight against the “Ratzies” (their juvenile but accurate nickname for the Nazi’s) across the European theater of war! 💥💥💥 Pic 1 of this post shows Simon (on the left) and Kirby (on the right) posing at the drafting table with the opening splash page featuring the team... Kirby is credited with the story and pencils, and Simon is credited with editing and inking! In Pic 2 we see the actual colored and printed page as it appeared in Detective Comics #64. The pic is credited as 1941, so it’s possible they were working on these characters and this issue up to 6 months in advance of publication!!! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #Kirby #KingKirby #JoeSimon #KirbyAndSimon #SimonAndKirby #BoyCommandos #DetectiveComics #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #40sComics #ComicsOfThe40s #IGComics #SimonAndKirbyStudios https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu4DPSgBDW8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xwd39w6z37je

#JackedKirby - Happy Valentines Day From Simon And Kirby!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 There aren’t many more perfect comic pages that correlate with a holiday than this one from Simon & Kirby and Valentines Day... This one comes from Headline Comics #Issue23 from March of 1947. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 The famous “St Valentines Day Massacre” was a famous gangland runout of rival mobsters by Al Capone.... leave it to Kirby to open the short story of that event by showing you the gunned down monsters being machine gunned by Cupid himself!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 A perfect page from The King and Joe Simon.... Happy Valentines Day Ya’ll... enjoy it!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💜 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #ValentinesDay #StValentinesDayMassacre #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #IGComics #IGComicBooks #40sComics #ComicsOfThe40s #igcomicfamily #igcomicbook #igcomiccommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt41EKyBizq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rvdf9lz316ft

#JackedKirby - The Boy Commandos meet Batman!!! 💥💥💥 Back in the early 40s Jack and his partner Joe Simon were making a name for themselves over at DC Comics. They had the Newsboy Legion and the Guardian, The Sandman and the Boy Commandos in full swing as the country inched closer to war... a war that Jack and Joe would both be fighting in a bit later on. 💥💥💥 The Boy Commandos were quite popular around this time, so the DC brass decided to put them into one of their lead books, Detective Comics. Detective Comics has become synonymous with Batman over the years... but originally it had more of an Anthology Style. So the powers that be enlisted Simon/Kirby to include a Boy Commando story.... and even gave them some cover space to strut their stuff!!! 💥💥💥 The cover image is credited to Kirby, Simon and Jerry Robinson. If I had to guess I’d say the Kirby/Simon drew the Boys and Robinson drew Bats for the sake of artistic continuity. Then the title placards and blurbs would be added. 💥💥💥 Inside the issue the Batman story (a great one called the “ The Cop who hated Batman) appeared first, with the Commando story (Nostradamus Predicts...) coming up second. I’ve also included the opening splash of the Commando’s story to show off Kirby/Simon’s pre WWII art style... Really love the way they did these war era stories, and the art is killer!!! Just a year later these two brave men would be putting themselves INTO THE VERY SAME WAR they had drawn about for years... pretty incredible! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #BoyCommandos #Batman #DetectiveComics #AnthologyComic #40sComics #ComicsOfThe40s #KirbySimon #KirbyCovers #Comic #Comics #igcomiccommunity #ComicsOfIG #IGComics #WWII #WarComics

#JackedKirby - The Big Red Cheese by Simon and Kirby!!! Back in 1941 DC (Fawcett at the time) had more then just Superman filling the ranks of heroes in its funny pages... the hero Captain Marvel (later known as Shazam) was quite popular and flying off the shelves!!! Why most comic fans may know that Captain Marvel goes back that far (his first appearance is actually from the late 1930s), many don’t know that the creators of another famous “Captain” worked on some of his early stories!!! Joe Simon and Jack Kirby contributed to three issues/volumes of Captain Marvel Adventures that spanned 1941. The books were anthology style stories (usually 6-8 pages) featuring Billy Batson taking on everything from common criminals, aliens and monsters to his arch nemesis Dr. Sivana... and this was right around the time that Simon/Kirby were publishing their first Captain America stories for competitor Timely Comics!!! They would spend days at the Timely office working on Cap, and nights in secret over at Fawcett crafting tales of Shazam!!! There are not many scans of these early issues of Captain Marvel Adventures floating around the internet, but I was able to locate this panel from #Issue1 which was published in early 1941 (#Issue2 has a Summer 1941 release date listed, so this is probably Jan/Feb of 41). Kind of cool to see the King take on DC’s godlike Shazam... I’ll try to dig up more info/pics from these issues in the future (inbox us links if you know where we can find them online!). #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #Shazam #CaptainMarvel #BillyBatson #DrSivana #FawcettComics #DCComics #SimonAndKirby #TheBigRedCheese #40sComics #ComicsOfThe40s #GoldenAge #GoldenAgeComics #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks