#doublesplashpages

#JackedKirby - An Explosion at Castle Rakenstein!!! 💥💥💥 The Demon is one of our personal favorite Kirby series here at Jacked Kirby, and one of the definitive reasons we love it so much is the abundance of splash pages that Kirby incorporated into the run... especially the TWO PAGE beauties that litter the 18 issues of the series. Never one to waste one inch of space, Kirby was notorious for squeezing maximum potential out of every inch of layout, especially in these two page monstrosities! 💥💥💥 Take this double splash that comes right after the opening splash page of #Issue13 (published Oct of 1973). Three consecutive splash pages to open an issue... and the amount of action and mayhem Kirby managed to squeeze into this double page is off the charts. We see Dr Rakenstein and his evil assistant Igor reeling from the explosions erupting in his lab around them... debris and equipment flying through the air, skeletons and lab samples scattered through the flames! And Etrigan is right there, taking it all in and trying to apprehend his nemesis! (Pic 1). 💥💥💥 Pics 2/3 of this post are close ups of each half of the dual page spread... you gotta love the signature Kirby HANDS on Dr Rakenstein (pic 2) and the wonderful use of “Kirby Krackle” to accentuate the flames around Igor from the explosions (pic 3). The craziest part about this spread has to be that The Demon himself is flying dynamically through the air in a death-defying move and yet he is one of the most underwhelming figure in the whole spread!!! (This pic of Etrigan IS AWESOME... it just pales in comparison to the rest of it!) 💥💥💥 This is the series we discussed in Episode 65 of The Jacked Kirby Podcast as well as one of the series that Steve “the Dude” Rude pointed out of his inspiration to pursue a career drawing comics in Episode 70 of the the Jacked Kirby Podcast... listen to them both by clicking the link in our BIO!!! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #TheDemon #Etrigan #DrRakenstein #Igor #SplashPages #KirbySplashPages #DoubleSplashPages #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #IGComics #ComicsOfIG #TheJackedKirbyPodcast #SteveRude #70sComics #ComicsOfThe70s #DC #DCComics https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Vf0lrhxxG/?igshid=6q4ppn3qssc0

#JackedKirby - Saturday Nights Are Good For Fightin’... 👊🏻👊🏾👊🏻👊🏾 Cap and The Falcon kicked plenty of tail in their many adventures together through the years, but there is something special about the pair and the beefs they had during Jack’s run on Cap in 75-76 when he returned to Marvel! 👊🏾👊🏻👊🏾👊🏻 This amazing double splash comes from #Issue195 which was published in March of 1976. It follows a vertical splash (only Jack could do that kind of stuff!) and features Cap and Falcon busting into the “New Society” fortress out of the labor pool with all the prisoners!!! They come bursting through the wall as only Jack could portray them... full of power and energy, blowing the wall apart as they infiltrate the room!!! 👊🏾👊🏻👊🏾👊🏻 Cap and Falcon are springing into action... Falcon especially. Look at his flying double fist... awesome! Cap is busting through the wall with his mighty shield... and it looks like they are gonna have some help from the labor camp prisoners! 👊🏻👊🏾👊🏻👊🏾 Some people deride Kirby’s art as “wonky” or “not his best Cap stuff” on this run in the 70s, but i couldn’t disagree more. I think it looks awesome in its own unique style!!! Gotta love some Kirby action.... CRAASHH!!! #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #Cap #CaptainAmerica #Falcon #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #70sComic #ComicsOfThe70s #DoubleSplashPages #KirbySplashPage #HorizontalSplashPages #SteveRodgers #KirbyAction #KirbySoundEffects #igcomiccommunity #igcomicfamily #igcomics #ComicsOfIg #comicsofinstagram