#JackedKirby - I Fought The Colossus (both in the US and the UK!) 💥💥💥 Jack contributed many “monster of the month” stories to the early Atlas/Marvel anthology books, but today we found something kind of cool to share with ya’ll today! Strange Tales #Issue72 (December 1959) featured a great giant robot cover story called “I Fought the Colossus!”. The story leads of the issue and is the basis for the cover, which was pencilled by Jack and colored by Chris Rule. (Pic 1). 💥💥💥 In pic 2 we see the UK reprint of this issue, published by L Miller in their Spellbound comic series (#Issue6) a year later (sometime in 1960). Although the original art appears untouched, many times the covers were altered/recolored or altogether redrawn. This one gives the monstrous robot a more realistic color scheme, as well as adding a beautiful reddish sunset backdrop and a more colorful cityscape to contrast Jack’s giant robot!!! I have to admit I kinda like the UK one better!!! 💥💥💥 One last cool tidbit from this issue is that Jack’s pencils for the Colossus story were inked by the legendary Steve Ditko!!! Pics 3 & 4 Show off some interiors on the very short story... Ditko also had his own story appearing later in the issue in which he handled his own pencils! The issue also features a Don Heck pencilled story, making it another FANTASTIC collaborative effort from the Marvel bullpen!!! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #StrangeTales #KirbyRobots #KirbyTech #KirbyMonsters #AnthologyComics #ComicsOfThe50s #50sComics #Comicsofthe60s #60sComics #Spellbound #LMillerPublishing #Atlas #Marvel #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #igcomics #igcomicfamily #igcomiccommunity #comicsofig #comicsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BmoEbvnH3wT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=e7pdl2710kpw
