#kirbyisms

From Punisher #13, 2010, by Rick Remender, Tony Moore, Mike Hawthorne and Dan Brown, a very clever layout: this monster is smashing straight up through the street, but the canted angle of the panel itself (and his wide-open mouth and the positions of his hands) turn this into a homage to the cover of Fantastic Four #1!

The “2001: A Space Odyssey” monolith shows up at the end of 2000’s X-51 #11, by Karl Bollers, Joe Bennett and Bob Wiacek. Not exactly identified as that, but it’s got to be a homage to Machine Man’s origins.

New Warriors #1, 1990, by Fabian Nicieza, Mark Bagley and Al Williamson, straight-up lifts the “players decide to be a team” moment from Fantastic Four #1.

Bruce Jones and Ron Frenz meet for the first time at a comic book convention in Ka-Zar the Savage #20, 1982, by the two of them and Armando Gil.

The Incredible Hulk #6, 1963, by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, involves several Kirby-style extreme long shots.

This "Adjudicator" from Stan Lee, John Romita Jr. and Scott Hanna's 2007 one-shot The Last Fantastic Four Story is very similar in function to Arishem the Judge from Jack Kirby's Eternals. Which, on the one hand, I suspect it's unlikely Lee read (and maybe it's a sign that his mind and Kirby's ran along the same tracks), but Romita seems to have picked up on the resemblance...

More Kirby Klose-Ups, this time from the 1976-1977 2001: A Space Odyssey series. Which is at least kind of in continuity! (Aaron Stack/X-51, later Machine Man, makes his earliest appearances in the final 3 issues.) Story and pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Mike Royer.

Ron Wilson and Chic Stone draw a VERY Kirbytech camera in Marvel Two-in-One #78, 1981, written by Tom DeFalco and David Michelinie.