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Kirby Covers! Top 5 On Sale in August 1961
Welcome to our Kirby Cover Countdown series! To kick things off we'll take a look at the top 5 Kirby covers on sale in August 1961. Only the most exacting criteria--artistic skill, ambitiousness of...
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Alter Ego #95 Spotlights Not Brand Echh!...Plus John Buscema's Mighty Revengers
Silver Age fanatics should check out Alter Ego #95 for some great recollections by Roy Thomas, Marie Severin and others about Marvel's Not Brand Echh, the great parody comic book ("Who says a comic...
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Mike Esposito, 1927-2010 -- of Andru and Esposito Fame and More
Sad news. Mike Esposito--that rose by many other names(Mickey Demeo, Joe Gaudioso, Mickey Dee)--passed away this weekend. Probably best known as the inker half of the fabled Andru-Esposito team, Mike...
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Neal Kirby Writes About His Dad Jack
"In 1961, I was the luckiest damn kid on my block — or maybe any block. My father worked at home. Everyone else’s dad had to drive into Queens or Brooklyn or take the train into Manhattan. And it was...
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Sue or Medusa? What a difference a decade makes!
Recently, commenter Anonymous opined that Reed should have hooked up with Medusaback when Sue left him, and I agree! Regrettably, that never came to pass--that would have been one hell of a...
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Madame Medusa and the Men of the Fantastic Four!
More marvelous Medusa musings! We've recently ruminated on a missed opportunity: Medusa hooking up with Reed during the time he and Sue were separated in the mid-1970s. Looking at Medusa's history, it...
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More Marvelous Medusa
Very pressed for time...but as I did promise to post some pretty pictures, here are a few featuring--yep, you guessed it--the marvelous, mysterious Madame M. Enjoy the pulchritude, and have a great...
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Jack Kirby's 96th Birthday
Taking a break from our Medusa marathon to post a belated commemoration of Jack Kirby's birthday. As I'm sure most of you already know, on this past August 28th he would have been 96. By now you've...
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Sue or Medusa? The Battle Continues!
The public has spoken! It's Medusa by a landslide. Are you paying attention, Marvel?! Send Sue off to Atlantis so Reed can ensconce himself in Medusa's matchless "invincible scarlet tresses."Fantastic...
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Nick Cardy 1920-2013
The great artist and gentleman Nick Cardy has passed away at the age of 93. His work in the fields of advertising, illustration, and comics was always singular; you could never mistake a drawing by...
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More Medusa and Reed!
Some Reed-Medusa interaction from the good old Frightful Four days. And for even more Medusa and Reed and Frightful Four, check out my Panelocity blog!Medusa snags Stretcho in Fantastic Four #38The...
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Happy 91st Birthday, Stan Lee!
It's that time of the year again--yep, it's HIS birthday. Happy Birthday to the Man!
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The Medusa Effect...and the Original X-Factor!
I'd like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and fun 2014!Let's start the new year off with--yes, more Medusa! Over the years many have noted the similarity between Medusa's 1969 Spidey-bashing emerald...
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Medusa: Off Duty!
Here's the lovely Medusa as she first appeared, way back in Fantastic Four #38. Even though she's hiding out from humanity and living in a cave in the middle of nowhere, she still makes sure her cute...
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The Medusa Effect...on Models, Movie Stars, and Musicals!
There's no doubt that Medusa's long beautiful shining gleaming streaming down-to-there hair was a major influence in the swingin' sixties look. Don't believe me? Just take a look at just a few of the...
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Black Canary, Brave and the Bold #61, and...
Here's Murphy Anderson's classic cover for The Brave and Bold #61 (1965) starring Black Canary and Starman. You know, this particular image of Black Canary reminds me of another sensationally sinuous...
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Jack Kirby's 97th Birthday
In honor of what would have been Jack Kirby's 97th birthday, let's take a look at--ahem-- Fantastic Four #97 (1970), one of the later Lee-Kirby collaborations from that comic's historic run. FF #97's...
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The Medusa Effect...and the Prime of Ms. Jean Grey
We all know that Barry Windsor-Smith's early Marvel work was undeniably Kirbyesque, but here's more evidence that Marvel Girl aka Jean Grey was a Medusa manquée ;) Love 'em both!1967 Fantastic Four...
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Scarlet Witch's Hair Color Part 1
At long last! The answer to the number one question about the Scarlet Witch! No, it's not whether Elizabeth Olsen can fill out Wanda's costume...or what the heck does Wanda's hex power actually do...or...
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Scarlet Witch's Hair Color Part 2
As we saw last time, Wanda and Pietro left the X-Men comic (X-Men #11) and immediately showed up that same month's Avengers comic. Her hair was still brown on the cover of Avengers #16...On the cover...
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Scarlet Witch's Hair Color Part 3
We've reached Avengers #75 (1970), the issue in Wanda and Pietro returned to the Avengers. As noted last time, on #75's cover Wanda's hair was blue-black, which was her the hair color she'd sported...
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Scarlet Witch's Hair Color Part 4
Last time we established that Wanda's hair color reverted to brown way back in 1970's Avengers #75 (click here for details). For the most part her hair's remained rich brown aka red aka auburn aka...
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Angry Young Men: Incredible Hulk #1 and...
I've long wondered if Kirby's fine-featured, brooding Hulk was based--facially, anyway--on a certain fine-featured, brooding actor. And yeah, I first posted this on a comic book forum a while back but...
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One of My Favorite Jack Kirby Covers
Now that's a Kirbyesque face! ;)Jack "King" Kirby August 28 1917- February 6 1994Psst: betcha can't guess who the lanky figure in black is ;)
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A Great Pair of Jeans! By Jack Kirby and Barry Windsor-Smith
X-Men #9 (1965) Jack Kirby natch!X-Men #53 (1969) Barry W-Smith
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