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#JackedKirby - Superman... or Mister Miracle via Mexico? 💥💥💥 I love a foreign reprint as much as the next guy, but Mexico was on some next level stuff when they began producing reprints of famous DC comics in the 70s/80s. 💥💥💥 Trying to capitalize on the more WELL KNOWN heroes (Batman/Wonder Woman/Superman), Mexican publisher Anguila Novaro used the Big 3s names as the titles of the books... even if they didn’t appear in those books AT ALL! 💥💥💥 Take this one for example. This is #Issue1425 of the Superman series... you can see the issue number stamper on the top left corner box. But in reality it’s a reprint of Mister Miracle #Issue1 from 1971.... Superman is no where to be found! This was published in Mexico in 1984 by Novaro Anguila publishing. 💥💥💥 In a cool piece of trivia, even though Anguila Navarro reprinted over 1500 books under the “Superman” title masthead, just 42 of those issues featured a character NOT Superman in the cover/issue. That makes this book super rare in the sense that even though there many be plenty of Mexican reprints out there, only a very small percentage of the ones featuring someone other then The title characters are out in the world being resold! This one is listed on EBay and is currently listed for $264.00!!! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #Mexico #MexicanReprint #MisterMiracle #MM #Superman #NovaroAnguilaPublishing #NovaroAnguila #70sComics #ComicsOfThe70s #80sComics #ComicsOfThe80s #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #IGComics 💥💥💥 Shout out to Thomas Sciacca for posting this on FB and triggering my curiosity! https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTiEFMBUZ4/?igshid=ohlorscwbnot

#JackedKirby - The Insectons!!! 💥💥💥 I feel like Jack’s work on Captain Victory is derided for no apparent reason... because the artwork is FIRE! I don’t even understand how people could look at the splash pages located throughout these 13 issues and ever say “nah man... he lost it by then”. I just don’t get it. 💥💥💥 Take this page from #Issue5 of the Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers (July of 1982) that features some invading Insectons (the main villains of the series) as they run up Captain Victory and his crew... look at the detail and design in each of those Insect Faces!!! Especially the main character of the page, who turns out to be the new “Regent” of the hive... kinda like the head Insecton in charge! He is amazing to look at. All the appendages and detail are just amazing! 💥💥💥 What I think Kirby does really well here is blue the line between insect & robot. As much as you know these are organic insect creatures you also get a very robotic vibe about their appearances... I think it’s the gear-like shapes and angles that do it, but they look like they are insect-robots. I wonder if this is where the Transformer creators got the idea for the INSECTICON line of insect robots that first appeared in 1986. Wouldn’t be the first time one of Jack’s ideas would be pillaged by another form of pop culture... 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #captainVictory #captainvictoryandthegalacticrangers #Insectons #PacificComics #80sComics #Comics #Comic #ComicBook #ComicBooks #ComicsOfThe80s https://www.instagram.com/p/B_yX4F0hvn8/?igshid=1uho8mautgarf

#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 - Destroyer Duck!!! 🦆🦆🦆 The more I go back and look at the landmark creator owned series Destroyer Duck (by Kirby and writer Steve Gerber), the more blown away by it I am. Not only are the first five issues of the series filled with amazing art, but the biting satirical story really does a great job of contextualizing the struggles of the creators who were embattled in the legal wars with Marvel at the time over their creations... it’s a beauty. 🦆🦆🦆 I love Kirby’s take on Duke “Destroyer” Duck. He has many dynamic splash pages in the series... but this one is definitely a fave of mine! This is opening page of #Issue3 from June of 1983. We see Duke entangled in some sorta webs... but the best part has to be that this scene NEVER ACTUALLY HAS ANY BEARING ON THE ACTUAL STORY! 🦆🦆🦆 Even though Issue 3 picks up from the events of issue 2, this page seems to be a random splash page that segues into the actual story on page 2... which does pick up from last Issue! It’s an interesting story telling choice, but I’m glad they included this splash cause we get a full figured Duke Duck in all his glory!!! And you gotta love the guardians of the lair, a horn (like the instrument) headed jackal and a falcon bearing the face of the deadly Madea from last Issue!!! Weird and groovy Kirby fun! 🦆🦆🦆 We will be recording a podcast on this groundbreaking series soon... stay tuned!!! #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #DestroyerDuck #SteveGerber #Comic #comics #comicbook #comicbooks #80sComics #ComicsOfThe80s #independentcomics #CreatorOwnerComics https://www.instagram.com/p/ByGhxfEBtyE/?igshid=1f39ipyp41hb8

#JackedKirby - Booster Cogburn aka The Dislocated Spine!!! 💥💥💥 In 1983 Jack Kirby teamed up with fellow industry malcontent Steve Gerber to help raise money to sue Marvel through a collaboration. The resulting project was Destroyer Duck for Eclipse Comics, which was an anthology comic title featuring the industries top tier talent... the main storyline was Destroyer Duck by Kirby & Gerber! 💥💥💥 #Issue2 was published in February of 1983 and featured one of the wackiest characters ever, Booster Cogburn aka The Dislocated Spine!!! Cogburn is a clone created by Godcorp (the money grubbing corporate entity that was supposed to be Marvel) a very unique gift. When killed, his spine would detach from the body and regenerate into a new version of himself. After being ambushed (Pics 1-3) Cogburn is left to die... and we see the resurrection process take place with the Spine becoming sentient and escaping the dead corpse (Pics 4 and 5) leaving us with a reinvigorated Cogburn Clone later in the Issue (pic 6) to exact some revenge! Cool concept brought to life by the King for a good cause! 💥💥💥 Trivia Note - While many comic luminaries such as Jerry Siegel, Mark Evanier, Buzz Dixon, Dan Spiegle, Martin Pasko, Frank Miller and Scott Shaw worked on the books various stories and covers through its 6 Issue run, it is most well know for the first appearance of Sergio Aragones’s long running barbarian comic Groo the Wanderer in Issue 1! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #Kirby #KingKirby #SteveGerber #DestroyerDuck #Groo #EclipseComics #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #80sComics #ComicsOfThe80s #Godcorp #BoosterCogburn #TheDislocatedSpine #IGComics #ComicsOfIG #Clones https://www.instagram.com/p/BxvCBP_gP9L/?igshid=1qth1e3uqffsh

#JackedKirby - The Giant Galactic Eye... 👁👁👁 Check out this massive space-scape from Jack on one of his last full series, Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers! What an insanely beautiful cosmic picture from the King... hard to believe that THIS is what people criticize as “Kirby being in decline!!!” 👁👁👁 This awesome double splash page comes from Captain Victory #Issue7 from September of 1982. We see Captain Victory and his fleet stumble upon this massive face in outer space... the Giant Galactic Eye!!! 👁👁👁 If this is how the story starts artistically, you can only imagine the insane designs that Kirby would employ when bringing the Wonder Warriors into this issue (check back in the feed, we did a whole post on those fantastically designed characters sometime ago- Mike). Kirby has his cosmic greatness hitting on all angles with this insane alien head... and the beautifully Kirby-Tech adorning the bottom two panels (from inside Cap’s ship!) are throwbacks to Kirby’s FF days!!! I don’t know why people critique Kirby’s art at this point of his career... to me, it’s SPACE-TASTIC!!! 👁👁👁 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #CaptainVictory #CaptainVictoryAndTheGalacticRangers #TheGalacticRangers #PacificComics #80sComics #ComicsOfThe80s #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #CosmicKirby #KirbySplashPages #KirbySplashPage #SplashPage #DoubleSplashPage https://www.instagram.com/p/BvxSqm2AbUg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1c6r0ljrjhc31

#JackedKirby - The Joker... Kirby Style!!! 🤡🤡🤡 Everybody out here talkin’ bout some Joker movie trailer and I’m over here like... WHAT ABOUT KIRBY’S JOKER??? 🤡🤡🤡 Jack was brought on to the 1st DC Super Powers series to contribute cover pencils and story plotting for the 5 Issue mini-series that featured a who’s who of DC heroes and villains in 1984. The series featured the pencils of Adrian Gonzalez on the interiors and Joey Cavaleri on scripts... and #Issue1 of the series featured the Clown Prince of Crime himself front and center (Pic 5 of this post!!). The comic came out in July of 1984 and that cover is AMAZING!!! 🤡🤡🤡 By the time the series was wrapping up in November of 1984 with #issue5 Gonzalez was relieved of his interior pencils duties and the King himself was completing the task!!! Luckily for us, that issue featured a TON of Kirby Joker panels (Pics 1-4 of this post)!!! 🤡🤡🤡 This was Kirby’s chance to play with a lot of mainstream DC heroes and villains since most of his 70s strayed away from the typical DC characters. I don’t think Jack ever drew the Joker besides this series... maybe @kirbymuseum could confirm that? 🤡🤡🤡 The second Super Powers series featured Kirby pencils on the cover and interiors, but I don’t think Batman’s main adversary makes an appearance!!! I’ll be double checking tonight... Happy Joker Day!!! (PS - The movie trailer looks DOPE too!) 🤡🤡🤡 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #SuperPowers #DCComics #Joker #JokerDay #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #80sComicBooks #80sComics #ComicsOfThe80s #KirbyDoesTheJoker #JoaquinPhoenix #thejokermovie2019 #thejokermovie https://www.instagram.com/p/BvzzANWBoQ3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17ke1g1rhqth5

#JackedKirby - MissileMan... who is that? 💥💥💥 I have been recently looking to add a piece of Kirby original art to my personal collection and cane across this beauty over at Comic Art Fans for sale! This is a beauty of a pencil piece from Jack of a character named MissileMan that is listed as property of the Jack Kirby Estate, meaning he was not created for any major company (Marvel or DC) or designated purpose to speak of. In all actuality this is probably some sort of toy/animation prototype that Jack was working on at the time. 💥💥💥 The first pic in this post is of the original pencil sketch, which is quite large (19x27) and has been sold on the open market quite a few times in recent years. The second pic is from the Jack Kirby Gold Checklist Edition (published in 2008) from Two Morrows Publishing, and shows an inked version of MissileMan subset on a table of context page from early on in the book. 💥💥💥 Considering the original is dated 1983, this could have been a potential original character for later waves of Kenner’s Super Power figures that never quite made it to production.... no one is quite sure of it’s original intention, but there is no denying it’s uniqueness and overall badass design by the King! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #MissileMan #JackKirbyEstate #PencilSketch #OriginalArt #TwoMorrowsPublishing #JackKirbyChecklist #SuperPowers #ConceptArt #JackKirbyCollector #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #80scomics #80sToys #ComicsOfThe80s #ToysOfThe80s #IGComics #IGComicCommunity #IGComicFamily https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp7ZqjzhWcJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=c9ulvuiqflv1