BEAUMONTS Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bigfiver69 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Must resist... urge to expand into... high grade DC sci-fi...... Fight back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtlasFan Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 Fantastic covers Beaumonts!!! Thanks! I wonder if this guy is related to the other big green hand in House of Mystery #80? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtlasFan Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 Must resist... urge to expand into... high grade DC sci-fi...... Fight back! {using the RingMaster's Hat} JOIN US....JOIN US....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I got this one at Mid-Ohio last November after I fell in love with the color scheme. DC had an infinite variety of colors on their covers. It's hard to imagine what a rack of these comics would have looked like...I'm sure I would have bought every issue if I had grown up in the late 50"s! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Oops! I see Beaumont beat me to that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Another nice Kirby cover & story. If only I could get my wife to walk in this machine... Wow, gotta get this issue! Kind of suggestive for a post-code DC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Must resist... urge to expand into... high grade DC sci-fi...... Fight back! Why do I get the feeling it's going to be harder to get these books on Ebay after this thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttock Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Here is a great Kirby Crater Creature cover - not to be confused with the later Thor foes - The Lava Men. Doesn't this issue have a Kirby Thor (pre-JIM) story? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWatcher Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Here is a great Kirby Crater Creature cover - not to be confused with the later Thor foes - The Lava Men. Doesn't this issue have a Kirby Thor (pre-JIM) story? That was #16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtlasFan Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 Here is a great Kirby Crater Creature cover - not to be confused with the later Thor foes - The Lava Men. Doesn't this issue have a Kirby Thor (pre-JIM) story? That was #16 Yes, 16 appears earlier in this thread. Overstreet is full of it when they say that the Thor character in TOTU #16's "The Magic Hammer" is "not like later Thor". This Thor looks almost exactly like Odin in JIM.... and their hammers are identical. It's quite obvious why DC never reprinted this. Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttock Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Good stuff. Glad I never bought a 22 then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 It's quite obvious why DC never reprinted this. Can you help me out here because it isn't obvious to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtlasFan Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 It's quite obvious why DC never reprinted this. Can you help me out here because it isn't obvious to me. Very well... By popular demand... Never reprinted....until NOW! Kirby's "THE MAGIC HAMMER" from Tales of the Unexpected #16...Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Thanks, AF! But it still looks to me like something DC should reprint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtlasFan Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 Thanks, AF! But it still looks to me like something DC should reprint. Oh, I agree. I am just speculating that DC never reprinted it because of the strong similarities to Marvel's Thunder god. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Thanks, AF! But it still looks to me like something DC should reprint. Oh, I agree. I am just speculating that DC never reprinted it because of the strong similarities to Marvel's Thunder god. This is prior work and presumably has an up to date copyright. Shouldn't be any reason to worry and it's not like Kirby, Lee or anyone at Marvel invented the Norse God, Thor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtlasFan Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 Thanks, AF! But it still looks to me like something DC should reprint. Oh, I agree. I am just speculating that DC never reprinted it because of the strong similarities to Marvel's Thunder god. This is prior work and presumably has an up to date copyright. Shouldn't be any reason to worry and it's not like Kirby, Lee or anyone at Marvel invented the Norse God, Thor. I don't think its because of that -- rather I would think that the editors at DC might have thought readers could have been confused to see a Kirby Thor in a DC mag. During the early 70s, a lot of DC's sci-fi was being reprinted in giant size reprint titles like Strange Adventures and From Beyond the Unknown - and Kirby had just left Marvel in a huff. Maybe Kirby and the DC editors wanted this story buried to avoid any Marvel connection. Ooo, sounds like a conspiracy theory ... or just some good ol' fashion Kentucky windage! Again, pure speculation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
