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Klarion
Klarion the Witch Boy was created by Jack Kirby for The Demon in 1973, both the archenemy of Etrigan the Demon and is a reoccurring adversary in the DC Universe Originally from Witch World, a magical dimension, he rebelled against adult authority and fled to the DC Universe Revived by Peter David for Young Justice:[...]
Jack Kirby's Daughter, Susan Kirby, Was A Sixties Pop Star In Britain
He posted to Facebook, "In addition to comics, I sometimes flog vintage mags on my eBay page, and was surprised to discover this item about Jack Kirby's daughter in the women's mag Petticoat for Oct 1st, 1966." Petticoat, Oct 1st, 1966. And it was a feature on the sixties Canadian/British girl band, She Trinity Including one Sue[...]
Young Romance Comics #12 (Prize, 1949)
Comic book genres have sometimes risen to prominence on the success of a single title, and such was the case for romance comic books with Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Young Romance in 1947.  When Time Magazine covered the romance comic book boom in 1949, it was already citing Young Romance as the originator of[...]
My Date Comics #1
Joe Simon and Jack Kirby may be best known for creating the patriotic political superhero with Captain America, espousing military intervention in a foreign country at a time when US politics favoured isolationism, and Nazis held rallies in New York But after the war, they also invented the American romance comic, the success of which[...]
Young Love Blossoms From Jack Kirby At Heritage Auctions
While maybe not his most action-packed piece, this Jack Kirby cover conveys the drama that a romance comic book requires He just had such a way of making his images feel like they were moving, and the dialogue helps that.  According to GCD, it's unclear who inked this cover, and it may have been either[...]
Joe Simon & Jack Kirby 's Romance Comic In Love, Up for Auction
Joe Simon and Jack Kirby were a Golden Age comic book force, not only creating Captain America in 1939, but also the romance comic in the forties, which spurred a successful genre in and of itself They had moved from creating comics to producing comics with other talent, including themselves, for comic book publishers, but[...]
Love Romances #88 (Atlas, 1960) cover by Jack Kirby.
If there's such a thing as overlooked Jack Kirby covers, his Silver Age romance work for Marvel might just fit the bill.  Joe Simon and Jack Kirby had pioneered the romance genre in comics with Young Romance in 1947, so it should come as no surprise that Kirby had romance work mixed in among the monsters,[...]
Amazing Spider-Man #1 (Marvel, 1963).
The story by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee and with a cover by Jack Kirby and Ditko would help set the tone for the character and the Marvel line itself for decades to come. Amazing Spider-Man #1 (Marvel, 1963). The Amazing Spider-Man #1 Curator Pedigree (Marvel, 1963) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages. Here it is web-heads, your once-in-a-lifetime[...]
Jack Kirby's Machine Man Owned By DC- Daily LITG, 6th of January 2024
You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Machine Man Jack Kirby's Machine Man Owned By DC in the ten most popular stories yesterday DC Comics Have Told Marvel That They Own Machine Man Will DC Introduce a Justice Gang Instead of a Justice League in 2024? Marvel Comics Tried To Get Jim Lee To Take Over X-Men,[...]
DC Comics Have Told Marvel That They Own Machine Man
All because he began as X-51, a character in the Jack Kirby adaptation and continuation of the Stanley Kubrick movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, published by Marvel in the seventies And because Warner Bros owns that movie, they also own the comic book and the continuing series. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1[...]
MidJourney
It is meant to include the artists whose work was used to develop Midjourney's AI art offering. They include comic book creators such as Tim Bradstreet, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Art Spiegelman, Brian Bolland, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bill Watterson, Bill Willingham, Ben Templesmith, Adi Granov, Al Davidson, Alex Toth, Arthur Rackham, Arthur Suydam, Scott McCloud, Ryan North, Mort Drucker,[...]
Love Romances #19 (Atlas, 1951)
Love Romances was part of the Marvel romance boom which saw the publisher launch an incredible 31 romance titles, 1948-1950.  Most of these disappeared quickly, but Love Romances was one of a handful of exceptions, lasting 101 issues 1949-1963.  The series numbering continued from the short-lived Ideal title, which began as a Classics Illustrated type of[...]
My Own Romance #22 (Atlas, 1952)
About a year after Joe Simon and Jack Kirby launched the comic book romance genre with Young Romance #1 in 1947, Marvel/Atlas publisher Martin Goodman debuted Marvel's first romance title, My Romance.  The title was quickly altered to My Own Romance with issue #4 to make room for a non-comics Atlas magazine called My Romance, and[...]
G.O.D.S. Isn't Sandman Or Saga, It's Books Of Magic Meets New Gods
And G.O.D.S.seems to be a Jonathan Hickman take on Jack Kirby's New Gods, at least in origin. The New Gods were created by Jack Kirby as part of his Fourth World series for DC Comics in 1971, and came from his work on Thor, after wanting Ragnarok to kill off the Asgardian pantheon[...]
Jack Kirby's Son, Neal Kirby Responds to Stan Lee Disney+ Documentary
Granddaughter of Jack Kirby, Jillian Kirby posted on behalf of her father Neal Kirby regarding a recent article published by Marvel Comics looking the Fantastic Four, ahead of the 2025 planned Marvel movie She posted "A statement from my father, Neal Kirby, son of Jack Kirby, disputing an article about the Fantastic Four published 8/8/23"[...]
Secret Invasion
Any further suggestions in the comments are most welcome… The credits have dropped Kurt Busiek, Chris Claremont and Jim Craig again and have also dropped Jerry Ordway, James D Hudnall and John Ridgway. They have returned Ben Dunn, Kevin Gunstone, Christopher Priest and Kenny Martinez. You can see previous credits from the previous three episodes, for Secret Invasion[...]
Secret
Tell us if we are right, or wrong – and thanks to Mathew Folwell for a correction from last week's list. Brian Michael Bendis – writer and co-creator of the series Secret Invasion (2008), co-creator of Maria Hill in The New Avengers #4 (2005), Pagon in New Avengers #1, co-creator of Dro'ge in New Avengers #40[...]
Jack Kirby, 1992, by Susan Skaar
A statement was issued by Jack Kirby's son, Neal Kirby, and posted by Neal's daughter and Jack Kirby's granddaughter, Jillian Kirby. Jack Kirby, 1992, by Susan Skaar – Kirby Museum CC BY-SA 3.0 The Jack Kirby Estate which represents certain members of the Rosalind Kirby Trust has now issued their own statement. The newest Stan Lee documentary is another example[...]
83 Years Later, Tom Scioli Recreates Jack Kirby's Starr Warriors
It's been quite a week of Jack Kirby Firstly the Disney+ documentary on Stan Lee dropped, which featured Kirby at the end, and caused considerable comment from Kirby's fans and family over the way he was portrayed and how Stan Lee was allowed to portray himself And now, something new – or old – from[...]
Secret Invasion
Any further suggestions in the comments are most welcome… With Special Thanks To: Brian Michael Bendis, John Byrne, Alan Coswill, Jim Craig, Peter David, Ben Dunn, Rich Elson, David Finch, Gary Frank, Kevin Gunstone, Niko Henrichon,  Jack Kirby, Andy Lanning, Bob Layton, Stan Lee, Kenny Martinez, David Michelinie, Christopher Priest, Roy Thomas, Robbie Thompson, Leinil Francis[...]
in The Daily LITG, the 20th of June, 2023
Jillian Kirby posted Neal Kirby's comments about Jack Kirby's portrayal in the Stan Lee documentary still being read more than anything else on Bleeding Cool So, yes, welcome to the Daily LITG The world can seem like a terrible and strange place sometimes, but at Bleeding Cool, you can still read all about comics, merch,[...]
Jack Kirby's Son, Neal Kirby Responds to Stan Lee Disney+ Documentary
Jillian Kirby posted Neal Kirby's comments about Jack Kirby's portrayal in the Stan Lee documentary So, yes, welcome to the Daily LITG The world can seem like a terrible and strange place sometimes, but at Bleeding Cool, you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In[...]
Jack Kirby's Son, Neal Kirby Responds to Stan Lee Disney+ Documentary
Jack Kirby co-created Captain America with Joe Simon in 1940 for what would become Marvel Comics, also creating the romance comics genre after fighting in World War II In the sixties, he co-created the majority of the Marvel Universe with Stan Lee, namely the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Hulk, Ant-Man, Thor, Iron[...]
Battle #70 (Atlas, 1960)
The Marvel/Atlas war comic era started with War Comics #1, which hit newsstands in early September 1950, a little over a month after the United States entered the Korean War.  That war would soon help inspire a wave of war comic books from countless publishers in the early 1950s, but war comics would be a[...]
The Full Comic Book Creator Credits In Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3
He's just one of the many creators listed in the credits during their special thanks, before the post-credits scene… and the post-credits note. The ain character comic book creator credits from Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3 run as follows: Drax & Gamora created by JIM STARLIN Groot created by STAN LEE, LARRY LIEBER and JACK KIRBY Mantis created[...]
Blue Bolt #2 (Novelty Press, 1940) Simon & Kirby art.
Sometimes a comic book key is not about a first appearance, origin, first issue, or pivotal events in the story.  Sometimes, it's more about an important moment in time, and the first collaboration of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby is one such moment.  The legendary pair  are among the most famous creative teams in American[...]
Headline Comics #27 (Prize, 1947).
The legendary creative team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby did some of their most important yet underappreciated work with publisher Prize beginning around late 1946, at first on established titles such as Headline Comics and Prize Comics among others, and eventually including series like Black Magic and the landmark series Young Romance Shortly after[...]
DC Comics To Revive Jack Kirby's Spirit World For 2023
  Spirit World was a 1971 anthology comic book magazine created by Jack Kirby that DC Comics cancelled after its first issue, and the DC Comics reprint ten years ago included work that had been meant for Spirit World #2 Former Kirby assistant and Kirby scholar Mark Evanier wrote in that collection, "Even if you were[...]
Cerebus In Hell Does Jack Kirby's New Gods- New Varks In April 2023
Instead its a take on Jack Kirby's New Gods as New Varks.  Here's how the Cerebus In Hell Presents: New Varks cover looks in the Aardvark-Vanaheim solicitations. Cerebus In Hell Does Jack Kirby's New Gods- New Varks In April 2023 And here's how the Jack Kirby version of New Gods #1 looked in 1971 from DC Comics. Jack[...]