#JackedKirby - The Shadow People Of Jack’s Kid Colt Covers!!!! 🤠🤠🤠 The sheer amount of Jack’s contributions to the Timely/Marvel line in the late 50s/early 60s is immense... it’s so much more than people even realize! While people will quickly point to the huge load Jack carried doing interiors/Covers in all those Anthology Books (Strange Tales, Tales to Astonish, etc)/FF/Thor and Avengers... people often overlook his other contributions across the line. Like for example: Did you even know Jack provided Covers for the Kid Colt, Outlaw series for over 6 straight years? 🤠🤠🤠 Starting with #Issue83 (March of 59) and ending with #Issue123 (July of 1965) Jack did the majority of Covers on Kid Colt, Outlaw. The interiors were mostly drawn by Marvel vet Jack Keller in those Issues, and later issues in the series would feature Marvel luminaries like Larry Lieber, Herb Trimpe and Sol Brodsky providing art to the book... but Jack’s enticing covers were a hallmark of the series during the rise of the Marvel Brand in the early 60s! 🤠🤠🤠 I was recently looking at the run of covers Kirby did from issues 83-123 and I noticed a cool stylistic choice that Kirby used a few times in the series. He would have Kid Colt and the main action of the cover be in color, but the foreground characters would appear in black and white shadow coloring. This creates a clear separation of the characters on the cover and makes both stand out from each other equally since there is such stark coloring differences! It’s a genius technique that Jack goes back to the well for time and time again. Here are a few good ones from those Kid Colt titles: 🤠🤠🤠 Pic 1: #issue88 (January 1960) Pic 2: #issue90 (May 1960) Pic 3: #issue94 (Nov 1960) Pic 4: #issue97 (March 1961) Pic 5: #issue100 (Sept 1961) Pic 6: #Issue104 (May 1962) Pic 7: #Issue109 (March 1963) 🤠🤠🤠 My personal fave is #Issue100. Gotta love the deviled horned mask of the Witch Doctor, and the surrounding crowd being done in greyscale with Colt and Witch Doctor in full color is a beauty! 🤠🤠🤠 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #KidColt #KidColtOutlaw #WesternComics #50sComics #60sComics #KirbyCovers #ComicsOfThe50s #ComicsOfThe60s #comic https://www.instagram.com/p/B2HGjHyBH6y/?igshid=1acwlylk0klmf
