kilowatt Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 Let`s see your favorite Jack "The King" Kirby comics as we celebrate the legends 100th. Birthday nocutename and Philreal 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jools&jim Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 All hail The King on his centennial! One-hundred years from now, the greatest works of his prodigious imagination will still be as fresh, exciting, and challenging as they were the day he created them. I only have one scan handy at the moment -- the first Kirby comic I remember buying off the stands as a 10 year-old. My OO copy is still in my collection, but it's not nearly as nice as this one, which I got from MCS a year or two ago... Mercury Man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury Man Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 One of my first ever comics, and my first exposure to Kirby. I was hooked ever since. jools&jim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Happy birthday, and thank you! aardvark88 and Larryw7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comics4All Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Happy Birthday to the King!!! I appreciated his art as I got older! Surprised there are not more comments here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comics4All Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 2 hours ago, Readcomix said: Happy birthday, and thank you! avengers 4 was one of his finest pieces! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 5 minutes ago, comics4all said: avengers 4 was one of his finest pieces! Agreed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 And if someone has a Sgt Fury #13 handy, please pop it up, as mine isn't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jools&jim Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 (edited) Hey all...please see below for an artifact from the old boards (ca. 3-4 years ago or so): my thumbnail scans for ALL of the books in Jack's legendary and mythopoeic Fourth World saga, which many King Kirby fans (including me!) regard as his magnum opus -- the purest extant expression of Kirby's mature & untrammeled cosmic imagination, albeit tainted by short-sighted editorial and commercial considerations which, sadly, were beyond Jack's control. Unfortunately, due to Photobucket's decision to screw its users, I'm not sure if the links to the full-size scans are still available. Bummer! The good news, of course, is that Kirby's visionary appreciation of reality, in all of its multifaceted glory, cannot be limited by size, which like time itself is relative, and which his pulp fiction forays into quantum microverses ("Worlds Within Worlds") obviated anyway. Kirby's love supreme for truth and beauty, as he envisioned it, will never be constrained. As Blake said, "If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite..." Time isn't holding us, and time isn't after us...that which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been. Long Live the King, and happy birthday indeed! Quote Here's the complete series as originally published in the early 1970s (with a few exceptions -- see below), sorted (quickly) into a rough approximation of publication order by cover date. Any corrections to this order would be very much appreciated -- I really do believe it's best to read these in the order in which they first appeared on the newsstand, even though the individual title runs do hold up very well when read on their own. I've excluded several non-Kirby comics featuring his Fourth World characters in issues of Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane, and at least one post-Kirby issue of Jimmy Olsen. Also not pictured is Kirby's somewhat anticlimactic Hunger Dogs graphic novel, published in 1985. However, I have included issue #6 of the 1984 New Gods reprint series, which features a (then) new conclusion to the storyline (by Kirby, naturally). What's pictured below represents (to me at least) the canonical original "Fourth World" saga in its entirety: --------------------------------------------------------------- Forever People: 1 - 11 Mister Miracle: 1 - 18 New Gods: 1 - 11; reprint series (1984) 6 Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen: 133 - 139, 141-148 --------------------------------------------------------------- Edited August 29, 2017 by jools&jim silverseeker, nocutename, Larryw7 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nocutename Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 @jools&jim Fantastic! I have the hardcover omni of the Fourth World. I treasure them dearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvelmaniac Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Happy 100th Birthday!!! Azkaban and Philreal 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badback83 Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 This might be one of those "no duh" type of things, but I don't care. My grail, my favorite of all time. Thank you Mr. Kirby. alexgross.com, Readcomix and Philreal 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr bla bla Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Kirby is one of the top five Masters of the medium. Ever. His name and his creations will live on for centuries! happy B-Day man ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 What the heck...these all belong here too...thank you for all of it, Jack! I hope you're having a cigar somewhere... badback83 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revat Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 He was remarkably consistent, which is why I hated him on some stuff, because it wasn't a right fit for that specific comic or character. BUT he was PERFECT for FF. badback83 and alexgross.com 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Happy Birthday to the "King" ! -bc badback83 and Philreal 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azkaban Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 (edited) the King Edited August 30, 2017 by Azkaban Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Philreal Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 LONG LIVE THE KING! Azkaban, badback83, alexgross.com and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr bla bla Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 3 hours ago, Philreal said: LONG LIVE THE KING! Cool sig. wow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
