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Stan, Jack, and Steve - The 1960's (1963) Butting Heads, Unexpected Success and Not Expected Failures!
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ON NEWSSTANDS JULY 1963

Journey Into Mystery #96 - Story Plot: Stan Lee Script: R. Berns (Robert Bernstein) Art: Joe Sinnott Lettering: Art Simek

Cover by Jack Kirby with Sol Brodsky inks. 

I tried really hard to like this story, but there's so much goofy stuff in it - and that ending... ugh. Still, I like the JFK appearance and how they did it, and Merlin using the different DC monuments was cool... I think I kinda like it anyway, even if the Jane Foster romance is already so annoying. Sinnott isn't bad here... except for that 4 foot long handle on Thor's hammer on the splash page...

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ON NEWSSTANDS FEBRUARY 1963

Journey Into Mystery #96 - Story Plot: Stan Lee Script: R. Berns (Robert Bernstein) Art: Joe Sinnott Lettering: Art Simek

Cover by Jack Kirby with Sol Brodsky inks. 

I tried really hard to like this story, but there's so much goofy stuff in it - and that ending... ugh. Still, I like the JFK appearance and how they did it, and Merlin using the different DC monuments was cool... I think I kinda like it anyway, even if the Jane Foster romance is already so annoying. Sinnott isn't bad here... except for that 4 foot long handle on Thor's hammer on the splash page...

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Now where have I seen this story before?

The splash page demonstrates Sinnott at his best--and illustrates how much of a contribution he made to Kirby's pencils on FF with his smooth inking.

Merlin sure was gullible at the end. A magician, who makes a living by deceiving others, should recognize deception better when it's aimed at him.

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ON NEWSSTANDS JULY 1963

Tales to Astonish #48 - Story Plot: Stan Lee Script: H.E. Huntley (Ernie Hart) Art: Don Heck Lettering: S. Rosen (why is his name always getting abbreviated?)

Cover by Jack Kirby with Sol Brodsky inks. Is Marvel cutting corners by having salaried office people do the inking on some of Kirby's covers?

Oh my god, this story is so lame...

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ON NEWSSTANDS JULY 1963

Tales to Astonish #48 - As a fan of Romance Comics... well, GOOD Romance Comics... this stuff they're doing on Ant Man and Thor is just... as the kids say, "Cringe Worthy". The Wasp in particular is a one dimensional dunce. 

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ON NEWSSTANDS FEBRUARY 1963

Tales to Astonish #48 - As a fan of Romance Comics... well, GOOD Romance Comics... this stuff they're doing on Ant Man and Thor is just... as the kids say, "Cringe Worthy". The Wasp in particular is a one dimensional dunce. 

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Re: page 13: Aureomycin was a miracle drug discovered in 1945. Per encyclopedia.com: "Continued testing revealed that aureomycin was effective against 90 percent of bacteria-caused infections. In human trials, the medication was found to be effective against a wide range of infections with minimal side effects. Unlike penicillin and streptomycin, which had to be injected, aureomycin could be taken orally (by mouth). Aureomycin was also effective in treating diseases that did not respond to other antibiotics, such as trachoma, parrot fever, typhus, chlamydias, and mycoplasmas. It was also active against Rocky Mountain spotted fever, an infection which had spread throughout the United States."

I suppose Ernie Hart did a little reading before mentioning this medicine by name. I'm not sure it would have helped with the flu, though.

 

 

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ON NEWSSTANDS JULY 1963

Patsy & Hedy Annual #1 - Well... so much for all new material in the Annuals. The one and only Patsy & Hedy Annual is reprints all the way through, including... 1958's Patsy and Millie meeting! Art by Al Hartley with Millie face touch-ups by Stan Goldberg, and lettering by Artie Simek. It's only signed by Stan Lee and Al Hartley though. 

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ON NEWSSTANDS JULY 1963

Sgt. Fury #3 - Written by: Stan Lee (More like: Added dialogue to Kirby's story) Drawn By: Jack Kirby (More like: Written, Drawn and Conceived by) Inking: Dick Ayers Lettering: S. Rosen (His name is Sam!)

Cover by Jack Kirby with no one sure who actually did the inks... here's what GCD has to say about it:

Conflicting credits; Steve Ditko per (Bob Bailey, 2005-03-19 & Nick Caputo 2006-08-31); Jack Kirby (Nick Caputo, 2005-01-05) (Per Sandell ed.) // Inker comment by Bob Bailey: While he was not well known for doing war comics Ditko did do a few. If you compare the inking on the cover to Sgt Fury #14 which was inked by Ditko over Ayers (or any of his other Kirby-Ditko collaborations i.e FF 14 cover, FF 13 interior) you get the same effect in the muscles, clothing, sand, water and Dum-Dum's hand. Also Nick Fury's rounded shoulder and facial wrinkles are definite Ditko. 

Per Caputo: I've read Bob Bailey's comments about Ditko being the inker for this cover,and I have to admit that I suspected him as well, although I'm not entirely convinced. There were times that Ditko basically went over Kirby's lines instead of embellishing them, as he usually did (A Giant-Man story and Strange Tales Annual 2 are two instances), so its possible the sparse line I see in Kirby's inking may be Ditko following the lines.

Chris Boyko: Steve Ditko (in litt., 18 Oct. 2014) states he did not do the inks on this cover and also does not think it to be the work of MR. Ayers.
 

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