Recently on the Kirby List scholar Stan Taylor queried about a Boy Commandos ashcan that appears in the GCD. I am not sure what the proper Internet etiquette is so I do not want to link directly to GCD’s image of this ashcan. So to get the most out of what I will write here, it would be best to make a new window and following my link to GCD and search for Boy Commandos. You will end up with 3 results, one of which is clearly marked ashcan. Although the GCD lists two ashcans (1 and nn) an image is only provided for #1.
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JACK KIRBY
Jack Kirby (August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994),[2] born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor. Growing up poor in New York City, Kurtzberg entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s. He drew various comic strips under different pen names, ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1941, Kirby and writer Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics. During the 1940s, Kirby would create a number of comics for various publishers, often teaming with Simon.
After serving in World War II, Kirby returned to comics and worked in a variety of genres. He contributed to a number of publishers, including Archie Comics and DC Comics, but ultimately found himself at Timely's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, later to be known as Marvel Comics. In the 1960s, Kirby co-created many of Marvel Comics' major characters, including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk, along with writer-editor Stan Lee. Despite the high sales and critical acclaim of the Lee-Kirby titles, Kirby felt treated unfairly, and left the company in 1970 for rival DC Comics.
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Boy Commandos Ashcan
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Jack Kirby (aka "The King of the Comics") was the most influential and respected illustrator and creator of comic books, at least of the super-hero/adventure variety. He was so important that, with that field now in recession, some are saying that when Jack Kirby died, he took the industry with him.
Among the characters that Jack either created or co-created were Captain America, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, Boy Commandos, Challengers of the Unknown, The New Gods, Kamandi, Darkseid, Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, Captain Victory, The Silver Surfer, The Mighty Thor and at least a hundred others.
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Kirby heirs take on Marvel for copyrights
That’s right, the heirs of Marvel great Jack Kirby have filed suit against the company. According to the Media Decoder Blog; the focus of the lawsuit seems very similar to the case that the Siegel heirs had. They have filed 45 seperate accounts to terminate Marvel’s hold over copyrights for characters their father helped create. Now, this has pretty massive implications for Marvel, simply because Disney bought them pretty much for the sole purpose of gaining access to their characters. Imagine all of a sudden they couldn’t make movies based off the Hulk or the Fantastic Four? Chances are, they would drop Marvel like a hot potato. More after the jump.
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All about this product:
The epic saga of the God of Thunder continues as the Marvel
Masterworks present another volume of Mighty Thor masterpieces by Stan Lee and
Jack Kirby! And there’s no holds barred from these masters of storytelling
from page one: The evil Loki, God of Mischief, has created a dilemma of
Asgardian proportions (natch!). Only with the medical skill of his guise as
Dr. Donald Blake can Thor save the life of the lovely Lady Sif, but only with
the power of Thor can he keep Loki at bay!
Meanwhile, in the darkened depths, a threat greater than any Thor has ever
before faced rises when the malignant Mangog threatens to unsheathe the
Odinsword and bring Ragnarok upon the Norse gods. It’s a tale considered by
many to be Lee and Kirby’s most-pulse pounding Asgardian epic. Need we say
more?
We do! Because with Stan and Jack, there’s always more amazing revelations
around the corner. Like the startling secret hidden from Donald Blake, and a
galaxy-spanning adventure that includes the origin of Galactus and a melee
that pits Thor and Ego the Living Planet up against the infamous world
devourer! Collecting Thor issues #153 to 162, written by Stan the Man
Lee with artwork and a cover by the legendary Jack Kirby.
Marvel, hardback, 224 pages, published May 2008
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