Jack Kirby

Art by Jack Kirby

In honor of the late Stan Lee, our readers voted on what they felt were his greatest comic book stories. The countdown of his best stories continues!

The origin of Captain America as only Jack Kirby can tell it!

First image is the announced "missing god" from Jack's great slew of images done in the sixties totally independent from his massive body of published "comic" work. Second image is the first Black Panther (hhmmmm....) Last image was also not used, but looks a lot like King Tut/Future Doc Doom from the FF (hhmmmm....) Could be just the tip of a cosmic iceberg, since Kirby was going to the next level beyond superheroes. None of the last three were really used, although the robotic-looking dude…

Print’s Steven Brower covered Los Angeles’s apocalypse from the safety of the East Coast, but I experienced it firsthand. The opening of Comic Book Apocalypse: The Graphic World of Jack Kirby at Cal State Northridge Art Galleries was duly noted in Brower’s column last month, the latest in his cottage industry of Kirby features; also see here, here, and here. As for us Southern Californians who’ve lived through the 1994 quake as well as the jam-packed opening reception — photo

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Original Comic Art titled THING Marvel Masterwork PIN-UP Recreation after KIRBY & Stone - DOUG HAZLEWOOD 11 x 17, located in Doug's Kirby Inks and Cover Recreations Comic Art Gallery (1603875)