Jack kirby comic book covers

One of the most extensive collections of jack kirby comic art is at your fingertips. From his tough jewish immigrant beginnings on new york citys lower east side, to the comic book publishing houses of midtown manhattan, to brooklyn and the suburbs of nassau county, to thousand oaks in ventura county, california, jack kirby s mind and hand brought us countless visually powerful stories and images. Jack kirby was one of the most influential comic book artists and writers of the united states, and one of the innovators of the superhero genre. He is regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comicbook medium, thus earning the nickname king. A cover gallery for the comic book captain america. We take a look back at jack kirbys most iconic and impressive covers from his lengthy comic book career.

In their latest gallery of themed comic book covers, csbg spotlights ron frenzs thor covers that homaged jack kirby. In the last issues of the pacific series, kirby crafted an origin story for captain victory which he tied into the new gods comic book that he had written and drawn for dc comics. He grew up in new york city and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and editorial cartoons. Please note that usps has raised their shipping rates again and we have been forced to do so as well. From his tough jewish immigrant beginnings on new york citys lower east side, to the comic book publishing houses of midtown manhattan, to brooklyn and the suburbs of nassau county, to thousand oaks in ventura county, california, jack kirbys mind and hand brought us countless visually powerful stories and images. Comic book covers presented at cover browser are republished within a.

The 100 greatest silver age comic book covers of all time. During his time at marvel, jack the king kirby made his name as an artist and writer who originated many of marvels most famous characters. In 1969, he began creating recordcd album comic book panel covers 2 dozen to date for the crusin series over half of which he scripted. Comic book apocalypse has more than 100 original art boards on display, from kirby s early captain america and young romance through his silver age covers and pages for xmen, fantastic four, and so on, to the silver surfer and kamandi from after relocating from new york to the san fernando valley, not far from the gallery. Feb 24, 2018 ron frenzs thor cover tributes to jack kirby. Comic book fans and creators from all over the world are spending today sharing their favorite memories on social media about the comic book icon. Comiccon celebrates the jack kirby centennial with an. Please enjoy these covers without commenting how forgetful, stupid and rotten i am. Jun 10, 20 the above cover art is pencilled by jack kirby and appears to be inked by george klein. In addition to reworking many of his golden age stories in suspense, kirby also introduced new characters. If jack kirby was the king of comics, was alex schomburg the. Jack kirby s new gods artists edition will collect issues 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of new godsthe most important fourth world book. In a world without stan, the average comic book reader is an 814 year old boy who stops reading comic books when he discovers either girls or porn.

The comic book artist finally gets the recognition he deserves. He, along with joe simon and stan lee, created the highly successful superheroes such as captain america, the fantastic four, the xmen, and the hulk. All were written, illustrated, and edited by jack kirby. Jack kirbys vibrant artwork graced many marvel comics covers here are just a few. To honor the king, weve compiled this list of some of our favorite kirby covers, ranging from the iconic to the oddball. One comics fans cosmic quest to collect all of jack kirbys. Kirby also created the covers for marvels biggest super teams, the avengers and the xmen, when their series premiered on the same day in 1963. With new gods announced as the next blockbuster superhero movie, its time the king was. The 15 best superhero comic book covers by some of the best names to ever put ink to whiteboard, ranging from jack kirby to neal adams to todd mcfarlane. Among kirbys many cocreations are captain america, the newsboy legion. Also keep in mind that the corpus of jack s work covers the 3 great ages of the history of the american comic book.

Jack kirby was regarded as one of the major innovators of comic books as one of its most prolific and influential creators. For the complete days of kirby 100 index of stories and features, including essays by the likes of mike allred, dave gibbons, marie severin, kelley jones and many others, click here. Top rated lists for nszerdy 334 items all stan lee creations or cocreations. Nov 14, 2017 top 100 jack kirby covers of all time. This is an incredible resource to art historians and comic book fans. Fantastic four, issue 87, cover is a great example of work by jack kirby. Captain america 102 marvel comic book,silver age comic comic. He along with stan lee and steve ditko and many others made marvel great. He is regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium, thus earning the nickname king. As a child collecting marvel silver age off the stands, there was no other interpetation of captain america other than jack kirbys. True to kirby form, he packed it full of his own ideas and even came out of it with a permanent addition to the marvel universe with machine man. Kirby was dubbed the king for a reason, and today we mark 100 years of his reign. This is the six hundred and eighth week of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false heres part 1 of this weeks comic book legends revealed.

I gathered all of the jack kirby comic book covers i could find, and present to you, in no specific order the best of jack the king kirby s greatest comic book covers. Nov 24, 2019 jack kirby has received worldwide recognition for his long comic book career and accomplishments. At the time of this stupid and erroneous belief, i was admittedly about 14, but even so my appreciation of art was definitely focused on the realistic end of the spectrum. The design is meant to look like a comic book cover, it does not open, it just looks like it might, its made of a single piece. In i cant cover what i am, i spotlight a collection of comic book covers of at least ten covers that follow a. Jack kirby is widely recognized as one of the most important comic creators of the 20th century.

Interactive displays and vitrines of comic books are also part. Today would have been jack kirby s 101 st birthday. Jul 12, 2019 book riot has talked about the best comic book artists working today and what makes a great cover in general. The jack kirby checklist is the most complete list ive come across and i dont leave home without it. Kirby covers documentation of my attempt to collect every single comic book cover drawn by jack kirby. Aug 28, 2017 today would have been the 100th birthday of legendary comic book artist jack kirby. Cap cocreators joe simon and jack kirby who would have turned 100 this month would. Stan lee and jack kirby both appeared as models on comic books. No, for jack kirbys centennial, we present 100 covers, covering marvel, dc and many other publishers. Gallery of jack kirby comic art, high res with art zoom. But back in the 1970s, after some differences with the company, he jumped ship to dc comics.

One of the mediums most prolific artistic legends, jack kirby, the king of comics, was an artist, writer, and editor whose work spanned the golden, silver, bronze and modern ages of comics. Jack king kirby is the king of marvel comics and helped create iconic characters like fantastic four, the xmen, and the hulk. Aug 28, 2017 kirby was dubbed the king for a reason, and today we mark 100 years of his reign. Jack kirbys unknown kid colt cover marvel mysteries and. After nearly sixty issues of jack kirby captain america covers in the silver age, a five year span, along comes this one.

He stayed as the artist as most of the covers until mid1965, though. Feb 18, 2020 the mightythor journey into mystery covers by jack kirby. This cover to fantastic four 49 was so good it inspired the legendary doctor who cover artist, chris achilleos, for his original cover to the the three doctors novelisation. This is an incredible resource to art historians, collectors and comic book fans. Sep 15, 2019 i gathered all of the jack kirby comic book covers i could find, and present to you, in no specific order the best of jack the king kirby s greatest comic book covers. Kirby produced over 20,000 comic book pages during his career, as well as about 1,400 cover illustrations. Captain victory and the galactic rangers wikipedia. Inspired designs on tshirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more by independent artists and designers from around the world. Book riot has talked about the best comic book artists working today and what makes a great cover in general. From 1938 up until his death in 1994, kirby produced at least 1526 comic book covers. List of characters created by jack kirby comic vine. In some cases, the backs can yield hidden treasures.

Fantastic reed richards, his wife invisible woman susan sue storm. You cant judge a jack kirby book by its cover print. Mar 18, 2017 jack king kirby is the king of marvel comics and helped create iconic characters like fantastic four, the xmen, and the hulk. The best comic book covers of the week 14 april 2020. Kirby is in the spotlight on the cover of this years book, illustrated by fanfavorite artist and producer, bruce timm, who is a guest at comic con 2017. When covers just wont do welcome to days of kirby 100, our celebration of jack kirby s centennial. A collection of antinazi comic book covers from the. One of pacific comics first titles, the original run of captain victory and the galactic rangers lasted thirteen issues, plus a special, through january, 1984. Cocreator of captain america, the fantastic four, the hulk, the xmen, and creator of darkseid, the demon, omac and myriad others, he still cant get no respect. Posted by dan greenfield on aug 27, 2017 2 comments. A denizen of hell, who speaks only in rhymes and is bonded to the soul of a mortal.

Jack kirby cocreated or created so much of the marvel universe captain america, fantastic four and so much of marvel space, hulk, thor, iron man, daredevil, xmen, and others and shored up one of the main failings of the dc universe lack of villains he gave us darkseid. The best jack kirby comic book covers covering comics. His cinematographic and dynamic artwork has left a lasting impression on generations of comic book artists, and was even plagiarized on several occasions. Aug 27, 2017 no, for jack kirbys centennial, we present 100 covers, covering marvel, dc and many other publishers. Jack kirby comic book information and titles worked on. Only one other creators gotten this treatment here at th dimension. Jack kirby 101 as surely as elvis presley is the king of rock n roll and michael jackson is the king of pop, jack kirby is the king of comics. Jack kirby comic book art for sale value guide heritage. At the time i was an art director at a book publisher in manhattan, and it was a sometime before. And jack contributed to this history on so many different levels, which is why hes the greatest comic book artist of the 20th century. Now, its time to present 26 of the absolute best comic book covers of all time. In this 100th year celebration of jack kirby s birth, we invite a hundred artists to draw 100 characters and teams created by the king. Sep 23, 2018 i may be an idiot in a dizzyingly varied number of ways, but the way most pertinent to this post is my youthful disdain for the comic book art of jack kirby.

Aug 17, 2017 a collection of antinazi comic book covers from the 1940s is one of the most relevant books of the year. Normally, our birthday shtick is salute a creator with covers on a particular subject. No, for jack kirby s centennial, we present 100 covers, covering marvel, dc and many other publishers. Cooke to produce the eisner awardwinning comic book artist, followed by the revival of roy thomas 1960s fanzine alter ego in 1999 another eisner. One comics fans cosmic quest to collect all of jack kirby. Although kirby s eyes and his sensibility were both probably damaged by the time he came to work on this book 1975, there is still enough going on within its pages to demonstrate what the comic book medium is and is for.

In this 100th year celebration of jack kirbys birth, we invite a hundred artists to draw 100 characters and teams created by the king. Because i am terrible at ranking things, ive just put them in chronological order. Oddly enough, at one point, kirby did a comic book version of the landmark science fiction film 2001. Sep 06, 2015 moreover, kirby was much more than a cover artist.

The sense of menace generated by galactuss sheer size compared to the fantastic four at the bottom of the page is palpable. See more ideas about comic covers, jack kirby and classic comics. Kirby s contributions to the interiors in the marvel westerns dropped off in early 1963, after all the superhero books were launched, with just a few short bits after that. Apr 14, 2020 as far as comic book characters go, etrigan the demon has to be one of the wildest ideas that jack kirby ever dreamed up.

Jack kirby s evolution comic tropes episode 68 duration. Tjkc quickly caught on, and things snowballed from there. A comic book artist who began working during the golden age of comic books and continued into the 1990s, jack kirby 19171994 created or cocreated hundreds of characters, including many of todays best known superheroes. Kirby created and cocreated a multitude of marvel and dcs most popular characters and many others, too. Kirby drew his first several adventures with the team, but signed up for the long haul penciling his starring turns in tales of suspense and captain america. A beginners guide to the king of comics, jack kirby. I can only imagine how much of a headache it must have been to pump out dialogue for that character. Nicknamed the king of comics, he has been a driving force behind the industry during both the golden age of comic books in the 1940s and the silver age in the 1960s.

Celebrate the legacy of jack kirby with his characters. He may not be with us anymore, but his influence is felt every day in nearly every comic book on the stands. And no celebration of jack kirby s covers can exclude marvels first family the fantastic four. Jack kirby has received worldwide recognition for his long comic book career and accomplishments. His first published work at atlas was the cover of and the sevenpage story i discovered the secret of the flying saucers. He grew up in new york city, and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing. Dcs julius schwartz, on his centennial two years ago. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. Maurice mitchell is a sciencefiction and comic book critic, blogger, and journalist. Excluding the issues is which he was the regular artist. August 28, 1917 february 6, 1994 was an american comic book artist, writer and editor, widely regarded as one of the mediums major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. Jack kirby s inker mike is best known for his decade plus period as lettererinker for jack kirby. This is our collection of comic issues where the cover was drawn by jack kirby.