Saturday, July 31, 2010

Challangers of the Wonderful

Jack Kirby Special 12.








Friday, July 30, 2010

Globespotters

Jack Kirby Special 11.

From My Greatest Adventure #16:







Thursday, July 29, 2010

Mr. Smith Goes To London

Thursday Story Strip Day.

I have forgotten to upload the last of the Smith-Pocohontas story from Dan Heilman's American Adventure last week, so here it is. Happy reading, although the end may come as a surprise. I also added a new color scan I found of the July tenth strip, but I left the black and white version (from a paper that published a couple of sunday strips in black and white to catch up) so you can compare them.




























A new story starts...



But on Sunday the previous one is once more recapped...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

I Was The Title Style That Was Used Too Much

Jack Kirby Special 10.

Whatever the influence of these stories was on the work of Jack Kirby at Marvel, it is obvious Stan Lee pinched the I Verbed The Noun... style of story titles (and subjects), which Jack Schiff had taken from the than popular Men's magazines.

From My Greatest Adventure #15: