#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
