39 never reprinted Kirby monster comics
The mayor of Mt. Holly, MN, has some exciting news to report: rare Jack Kirby stories have been unearthed and made available!
LinkFor those uninitiated, Jack Kirby was a legend in the comic book genre. He's responsible for creating many big name superheros.
His brain also birthed a slew of monster comics that bent readers imaginations and furthered the plight of the everyman, in a fashion only found elsewhere in the episodes of Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. Here, on Monster Blog, for the first time reprinted anywhere are 39 gems of Kirby magic.
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FYI, some of these have been reprinted recently. Marvel is in the process of collecting all of their "Atlas Age" horror comics. Assuming they sell, eventually all of Kirby's Marvel Monster comics should be reprinted.
Saw some of this work at the Masters of American Comics touring exhibit last year it was great.
...Normally, news about The King would show up on Mark Evanier's blog first. Guess he's too busy wanking off with the rest of the SWG on their strike :-) :-)
Uh, let me see if I got this straight... The mayor of Mt. Holly is reading MetaFilter, follows a link to a blog post from 2004 featuring low rez scans of old Kirby comics (many of which actually have been reprinted, all of which are probably copyrighted by Marvel) and then said mayor blogs about it. BoingBoing then reports on the mayors blog post.
So, where's the "exciting news" bit that I'm apparently missing?
(Yeah, this comment would have been less snarky if the relevant link actually had decent sized scans. Or if the post office would finally deliver the Amazing Fantasy Omnibus I ordered from Amazon.)