#JackedKirby - Attack of the Devil Bird!!! 🦅😈🦅 Jack and Joe Simon produces an awful lot of great genre work over at Mainline/Prize comics in the early 50s and I feel it gets overshadowed by some of their more well known works featuring more mainstream characters. I want to work on spreading love for some of these lesser known books/characters from them this year here at Jacked Kirby, so here we go... 😈🦅😈 Bullseye was a cowboy/western anthology styled book put out by Mainline comics and for the first few issues featured a heavy Simon load of contributions with Jack checking in sporadically. But with #issue3 of the series (released in December of 1954) we see Jack’s involvement ramp up... he is the primary writing and art credit on almost all the stories in the book, including this one that features an attacking DINOSAUR!!!! It’s actually a Pterosaur in the story, which is interesting cause this was right around the time when scientists shifted away from tying dinosaurs to crocodile/reptile looks and moved more toward bird like designs. Jack kills this with his ferocious flying Devil Bird, terrorizing young Bullseye and some unlucky Native Americans! 🦅😈🦅 The character of Bullseye and it’s comic only lasted only 8 issues at Mainline but it was some of Jack and Joe’s favorite work while at the company. He would also prove to be one of the duos last great collaborative creations, as the team would move on to separate career paths that would result in a few later collaborations based on existing characters. But Bullseye, the young sharpshooting cowboy was their last new character... a hell of a way to go out! 🦅😈🦅 PS- Can’t help but think of Jack’s most famous dinosaur character, Devil Dinosaur, when I look at this Devil Bird... must be the sharp red coloring!!!! 🦅😈🦅 #JackKirby #KirngKirby #Kirby #Bullseye #MainlineComics #PrizeComics #WesternComics #Western #Dinosaur #DinosaurComics #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #50sComics #ComicsOfThe50s #JoeSimon #SimonAndKirby #KirbyAndSimon https://www.instagram.com/p/BsvO7lgBbjQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fz127y1eiivr

#JackedKirby - Introducing... Doubleheader!!!! (Cause ya know... the two heads and all!) 💥💥💥 Having recently acquired the full collected run of Simon & Kirby’s Fighting American I am amazed at how wacky it is. Considering how serious it’s original intention was, imagine my surprise when I turned to #Issue2 (June of 1954) and saw a villain named Doubleheader.... a gangster with two heads attached to one body!!! 💥💥💥 Originally conceived to be a purposeful rip off of their own Star Spangled creation Captain America, Kirby and Simon were mad that Atlas Comics had brought back Cap in a revival run in the 50s. They figured he was truly their creation anyway, so so if they couldn’t work on Cap they would create the EXACT SAME CHARACTER for Prize Comics! That’s how the Fighting American was created... to be Cap’s doppelgänger for the competition!! 💥💥💥 After one serious issue, the series began to spin out of control towards the weird and wacky imaginations of Simon & Kirby! Doubleheader, a dress suit/hat wearing gangster with TWO HEADS, is the epitome of this silliness. Forget about the impracticality of the characters... where could they even shop for shirts that have a double wide neck? And the two headed criminal may be one of the more “grounded” ideas they had during this fantastic series.... check them out and tell us which wacky elements you love the most in the comment section below!!! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #FightingAmerican #Cap #CaptainAmerica #50sComics #ComicsOfThe50 #PrizeComics #AtlasComics #igcomicbookcommunity #igComics #igcomicbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/BrgoXxYhtWP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7hin72upf71z

In the dumps? Read a book! Or, ask a friend for one! This #DickBriefer #Frankenstein panel from #PrizeComics 52 (1945) is an example... (at Bonnett's Book Store) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw-FvRiggAd/?igshid=1gpazu1ea3ulg

... Because "X the unknown" was copyrighted? #prizecomics https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsr2BIBBArU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=x3cbs5zqckfp

Dick Briefer art in a Frankenstein story from Prize comics, circa 1944(?). #prizecomics #frankenstein #cigarette #dickbriefer https://www.instagram.com/p/BsN8gElBBNz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3pu3mpwzv4w7

Pg 39 of "Ape-Men of the Apocalypse" #2 is now online, link in bio. #comicbookart #powernelson #apemenoftheapocalypse #sequentialart #comics #comicbooks #illustration #drawing #sequentialart #comics #art #webcomics #ink #ink-wash #comicbookart #comix #originalart #prizecomics

#JackedKirby - Head of the Family Pt. 2 Jack Kirby and Joe Simon were famous for creating Captain America, but they worked on a few other projects together including the anthology horror comic Black Magic for Prize Comics. In 1973 DC started reprinting the earlier stories, with new covers from Jack! #Issue1 was published in November of 1974 and reprinted the story called "Head of the Family". In it we see a crazy story about a woman looking to marry into a family that shares one collective consciousness... And has a patriarch that is THE TRUE HEAD OF THE FAMILY because of his whole body consisting of a giant head! You can certainly see shades of an early MODOK in this character... A body that is all head with limbs! Jack wouldn't create MODOK until 1967 alongside Stan Lee in Tales of Suspense #Issue93 but we can see where he first took a pass at the characters design! Since this reprint came out AFTER MODOK's first appearance, Kirby altered the main characters appearance a bit to appear even more like everyone's favorite head for a body Marvel Villain! Check back for the next post about an alternate cover to this issue! #JackKirby #Kirby #KingKirby #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #InstaGood #InstaComics #InstaComic #HorrorComics #HorrorAnthology #BlackMagic #Modok #PrizeComics #JoeSimon #SimonAndKirby #HeadOfTheFamily #DCComics #50sComics #ComicsOfThe50s #ComicsofIG #ComicsOfInstagram

#JackedKirby - Head of the Family Pt. 1 Jack Kirby and Joe Simon were famous for creating Captain America, but they worked on a few other projects together including the anthology horror comic Black Magic for Prize Comics. #Issue30 was published in June of 1954 and features a story called "Head of the Family". In it we see a crazy story about a woman looking to marry into a family that shares one collective consciousness... And has a patriarch that is THE TRUE HEAD OF THE FAMILY because of his whole body consisting of a giant head! You can certainly see shades of an early MODOK in this character... A body that is all head with limbs! Jack wouldn't create MODOK until 1967 alongside Stan Lee in Tales of Suspense #Issue93 but we can see where he first took a pass at the characters design! Check back for the next post about an alternate cover to this issue! #JackKirby #Kirby #KingKirby #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #InstaGood #InstaComics #InstaComic #HorrorComics #HorrorAnthology #BlackMagic #Modok #PrizeComics #JoeSimon #SimonAndKirby #HeadOfTheFamily #DCComics #50sComics #ComicsOfThe50s #ComicsofIG #ComicsOfInstagram