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Thankfully one Bleeding Cool spy managed to see which Marvel comic book creators get thanked for Bleeding Cool. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever/Bleeding Cool Source The Black Panther created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Jason Aaron, Bob Almond, Ken Bald, Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Rich Buckler, John Buscema, Stefano Caselli, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Olivier Coipel, Gene Colan,[...]

It's especially interesting with some creators when the programme tries to incorporate aspects of their artwork or comic book characters they are associated with. I mean, yes it's Brian Michael Bendis but there are also elements of The Kingpin, right? Jack Kirby is just glorious especially when he is part Galactus. John Ridley is very serious. Steve[...]

Sandman, Jed Walker not the master of dreams, debuted in the bronze age in 1974 to much acclaim and featuring covers by none other that Jack Kirby The first issue of the series was the final collaboration by Kirby and Joe Simon, one of the great duos in the history of comics So, the prestige[...]

The legendary creative team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby did some of their most important yet underappreciated work with publisher Prize beginning around late 1946, at first on established titles such as Headline Comics and Prize Comics among others, and eventually including series like Black Magic and the landmark series Young Romance Shortly after[...]

Power Nelson, Man of the Future had been the cover feature of the first six issues of Prize Comics, but that ended for good with Prize Comics #7.  A burst of new creators and new features quickly left Power Nelson on the back pages of the title, and as a result of this new mix[...]

First, here are all the credits as listed for Special Thanks: Episode 1:  Paul Levitz, Joe Orlando, Jack Oleck, Nestor Redondo, Jack Sparling. Episode 2: Gardner F Fox, Bob Haney, Paul Levitz, Joe Orlando, Jack Oleck, Nestor Redondo, Jack Sparling, Alex Toth, Mike Sekowsky, Mark Hanerfeld, Bill Draut Episode 3:  Stephen Bissette, Mike Carey, Steve Dillon, Gardner F[...]

Fate's first-told origin in More Fun Comics #67 by over a year.  Robert Morgan was an American studying in Egypt who encountered an ancient Egyptian figure known as "The Old Man of the Pyramids", who taught him ancient arts and sciences, and gave him "the Amulet of Annihilation, the weapon of the forces of right." [...]

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby are among the most famous creative teams in American comic book history.  They are the legendary creators of comic book titles and characters like Captain America and Bucky, Newsboy Legion, Boy Commandos, Manhunter, Boys' Ranch, Fighting American, and numerous others.  Every team starts somewhere, and the earliest collaborations of these[...]

Aside from a bit of work in Prize Comics in 1940, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby began working in earnest with publisher Prize around late 1946, at first on established titles such as Headline Comics and Prize Comics among others, and eventually including series like Black Magic and the landmark series Young Romance After their[...]

The Eternals were created for Marvel Comics by Jack Kirby, in 1976 In the decades since, no one expected a movie, and while there were revivals over the year, characters joining the Avengers, getting reboots from Neil Gaiman and more, it was the movie that introduced these new gods to the whole world And put[...]

The John Buscema,Fantastic Four #126 cover that reprised the original Fantastic Four #1 cover by Fantastic Four co-creator Jack Kirby, and is also signed and inscribed by the comic book's writer, and Fantastic Four's other co-creator Stan Lee And while the FF #1 cover has been homaged, referenced and repeated so many times – this[...]

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This week's Green Lantern #12, as well as teasing a future John Stewart And The Emerald Knights comic book to come from DC Comics, also gets deep within The Source. The New Gods #1 by Jack Kirby The Source was created by Jack Kirby for the Fourth World comics in 1970 in New Gods #1 It is[...]

Captain America Comics #1 CGC 9.4 from the fabled Tom Reilly / San Francisco Pedigree has just sold for a record $3,120,000 in this afternoon's session of the current 2022 April 7 – 10 Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction #7270 at Heritage Auctions.  The March 1941 cover-dated issue by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby[...]

Today, as part of Heritage Auctions' Platinum Session auctions, Captain America Comics #1 by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby from 1941, part of the San Francisco Pedigree collection, graded at CGC 9.4, is going under the hammer And from proxy bids alone, it already has almost two million dollars in bids It's the first appearance[...]

Lee and Steve Ditko appeared in silhouette brainstorming about story ideas in a humorous short called "Something Fantastic" in Amazing Adult Fantasy #12 (1961).  Stan Goldberg and Lee put Jack Kirby in the middle of a humorous and memorable story in Millie the Model #107 (1962).  But the story in Fantastic Four #10 (1963) not[...]

Jack Kirby is not known for drawing Conan The Barbarian But he did draw Conan once for publication, the cover to Giant-Size Conan #5 back in 1975, the comic currently being revived at Marvel Comics And the original artwork for that cover is currently at auction from Heritage Auctions as part of their Premium collection[...]

The character Machine Man was the result of a confluence of a number of events at Marvel during the later 1970s.  The company was launching a number of high-profile science fiction projects based on movies, it had acquired the license for Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and comic book industry legend Jack Kirby had just[...]

A long-hidden trove of artwork by legendary comics artist Jack Kirby, creator of the Eternals and co-creator of Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Incredible Hulk, and countless other comic-book heroes, is about to be revealed for the first time ever as it starts to go to auction The Ruby-Spears Jack Kirby Art[...]

Mister Miracle will always be my personal favorite from Jack Kirby's New Gods, and it is criminal that more people are not more aware of these characters Man, I really wish that movie or show or whatever from Ava DuVernay would have happened I would give anything to see Mister Miracle on a big screen[...]

And on that decision hangs many other such cases – including Marvel Comics' sixties characters and so much more. It is noted that when Jack Kirby's estate petitioned the Supreme Court for copyright reversal, that it was then, and only then, that Disney paid out what is reported to be $30-$35 million to settle the case[...]

When he was created decades before by Stan Lee, R Berns, Jack Kirby, and Dick Eyers for Journey Into Mystery #93 back in 1963 And the original artwork to the opening splash page of that issue, is up for auction from Heritage Auctions right now, with bids that have taken it up to $100,000 It[...]

For example, a CGC 7.0 copy which could be had for under $1,000 20 years ago will run $15,000 or more today.  There's an Avengers #1 (Marvel, 1963) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Off-white pages, as well as a more affordable Avengers #1 (Marvel, 1963) CGC GD/VG 3.0 Cream to off-white pages up for auction this week[...]

Stan Lee's The Devil's Quintet: The Armageddon Code will not only surprise and delight Stan's myriad fans, it will also scare the wits out of readers around the world." But, as its publication date grows closer, I am reminded of nothing more than Jack Kirby's Satan's Six A concept created by Jack Kirby, with a few[...]

Marvel is bringing the exploitation of the work of Jack Kirby into the modern age with a new series of Eternals NFTs offered through Veve Launching Thursday at 11AM, the Eternals collection will feature five versions of an Eternals #1 digital comic that, yes, technically, you could read on Marvel Unlimited, but then you wouldn't[...]

Fawcett Publications' Wow Comics series is best known for its regular feature Mary Marvel beginning in Wow Comics #9, but the first eight issues of the series are historically fascinating as well.  The cover star of many of these issues is Mister Scarlett, a fairly typical caped crusader based in Gotham City in these early[...]

Jack Kirby handled it all here and created a character that I always feel needs to have his due He has a skateboard in his feet! So awesome Anyway, the first issue is not rare by any stretch but still fetches some good money, especially a copy like this CGC 9.8, taking bids today at[...]

Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics has acquired a gifted copy by the late Roz Kirby of her late husband Jack Kirby's unpublished novel, The Horde He wrote "Until last evening, it had completely escaped my attention that legendary comics artist, Jack Kirby, had written a complete 248-page prose novel It was never published, but a[...]

Published in 1966 and part of the epic run of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, this issue is the one that made me personally fall in love with Marvel's First Family and is a treasure Every single comic collection should have a copy of this one, and ComicConnect has an amazing CGC 9.4 copy on[...]

Fantastic Four #1 is a pretty good comic, but a lot of people believe that it could be much better if old school artists like Jack Kirby had access to modern comics-making technology, such as putting gradients on everything and making the artwork really shiny Luckily, Marvel has a solution: getting modern artists to redraw[...]