Which late era Jack Kirby signatures are legit?
I've seen debate here over the 1991 pin collection. While this is certainly a different style of pen than Jack used in the 70s, there's been a line advanced that his 90s works are forgeries by Roz. Jeremy Kirby meanwhile stands by the 1991 pin signatures as authentic.
The point has been made that his 80s signatures tended to have a wobbly quality with a harder right lean but the problem I have with this line is that it starts with a presumption: that the 80s signatures represented an authen
I decided to share one sample from an art tour and a few samples from different pin sets.
The last one is high number and sure looks different to my eye from the others with a "4" shaped J.
The next to last has a loop at the top of the J and is also high number.
If I had to guess, at least the last 500 were farmed out but I'm less certain about the earlier ones.
I think I lean towards the conjecture that he split the stack in two or thirds and did the low numbered ones...