by John | Aug 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
I had hoped to write a few paragraphs about Jack Kirby—who would’ve turned 103 on Aug. 28, 2020. However deadlines and life have kept me from that and other things I was planning for this week. But if you Google “Jack Kirby” you’ll find hundreds of sites with tributes better than anything I could come up with about the man who has justifiably been called “the King” of comics.
Instead, I’m posting the first page of the Marvel story that my two-part Kirby/Colletta webcomics are pulled from. I don’t feel comfortable posting more than that. It’s copyright, of course, Marvel Comics and appears here only for promotional and informational purposes.
Page 1 of my story “I Was a Beach Blanket Barbarian” in Marvel Romance Redux: But I Thought He Loved Me!” ©2006 Marvel Comics.
by John | Aug 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
by John | Aug 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Pencils by Jack Kirby from I Love You #7, Sept. 1955. Published by Charlton Comics.
by John | Aug 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Art by Vince Colletta Studio from the story “Girl Meets Boy!” in FIRST KISS #11, Nov. 1959.
Transcript:
MAN: I hate to brag, but…
WOMAN: But you’re so good at it!
MAN: I know! I even won a trophy! it’s huge…
WOMAN: I’ve seen big ones before!
MAN: Not like this!
1959 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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↓ TranscriptMAN: I hate to brag, but…
WOMAN: But you’re so good at it!
MAN: I know! I even won a trophy! it’s huge…
WOMAN: I’ve seen big ones before!
MAN: Not like this!
1959 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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by John | Aug 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Today’s divine humor courtesy of Tony Isabella.
Art by Dick Giordano & Vince Alascia from the story “The Big Meet” in FRANK MERRIWELL AT YALE #2, Aug. 1955.
Transcript:
SCENE: A stout, middle-aged (or older) man with a cane.
MAN: Mrs. Burnside, must we play “The Randy Vicar and the Saucy Churchwoman” every evening?
Mrs. Burnside (speaking from off panel): Well, my dear Cedric, since you are actually a randy vicar……and I am decidedly
a very saucy church-woman…
MAN: Quite so, Miranda. But be sure to lock the rectory door behind us. We wouldn’t want the choirmaster to walk in on us…again!
1955 Art: Dick Giordano & Vince Alascia Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: A stout, middle-aged (or older) man with a cane.
MAN: Mrs. Burnside, must we play “The Randy Vicar and the Saucy Churchwoman” every evening?
Mrs. Burnside (speaking from off panel): Well, my dear Cedric, since you are actually a randy vicar......and I am decidedly
a very saucy church-woman...
MAN: Quite so, Miranda. But be sure to lock the rectory door behind us. We wouldn't want the choirmaster to walk in on us...again!
1955 Art: Dick Giordano & Vince Alascia Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
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