{"id":33618,"date":"2025-08-28T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=33618"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:57:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:57:47","slug":"the-marvel-comics-covers-of-jack-kirby-volume-1-1961-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/08\/28\/the-marvel-comics-covers-of-jack-kirby-volume-1-1961-1964\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marvel Comics Covers of Jack Kirby volume 1: 1961-1964"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Jack Kirby<\/strong>, with Steve Ditko<\/strong>, Don Heck<\/strong>, Dick Ayers<\/strong>, Paul Reinman<\/strong>, Bill Everett<\/strong>, George Roussos<\/strong>, Joe Sinnott<\/strong>, Chic Stone<\/strong>, Vince Colletta<\/strong>, George Klein<\/strong>, Sol Brodsky<\/strong>, Al Hartley<\/strong>, Stan Goldberg<\/strong>, Art Simek<\/strong>, Sam Rosen<\/strong> & various, Introduction by Patrick McDonnell<\/strong> (Dark Horse Comics)
\nISBN: 978-1-50673-246-6 (HB) eISBN: 978-1-50673-247-3<\/p>\n

Today in 1917 on New York’s Lower East Side, Jacob Kurtzberg was born to Jewish-Austrian parents. He grew up to be one of the most influential and recognised artists in world history. The reason why can be read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Marvel Comics Covers of Jack Kirby<\/strong> chronologically collects The King\u2019s superhero cover art in a spectacular hardcover coffee table book which simultaneously preserves the wonderment in a digital edition, thus allowing instant enlargements of any and all bits you might have glossed over or missed before…<\/p>\n

Preceding the massive and momentous art attack comes heartfelt appreciation from Patrick McDonnell (Mutts<\/strong>) in his Introduction<\/em> and via collector memory \u2018Echoes of the King\u2019<\/em> by Vincent Iadevaia. At the far end of the collection there\u2019s a succinct biography and appreciation of Jack for those of you who don\u2019t know him as well as we declining comics stalwarts do.
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\nIn between those points reside a torrent of those visual highpoints that served to introduce new and revolutionary ways of seeing and enjoying comic books. These collectively span cover-dates November 1961 to December 1964 as seen on The Avengers<\/strong> #1-11; Fantastic Four<\/strong> #1-33; Incredible Hulk<\/strong> #1-5; Journey into Mystery<\/strong> #83-111; Strange Tales<\/strong> #90, 101-127; Tales to Astonish<\/strong> #25, 27, 35-62; Tales of Suspense<\/strong> #39-56, 58-60; X-Men<\/strong> #1-8; Amazing Fantasy<\/strong> #15; Amazing Spider-Man<\/strong> #1; Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos<\/strong> #1-13; Daredevil<\/strong> # 1-4 plus Strange Tales<\/strong> Annual<\/strong> #2, Marvel Tales Annual<\/strong> #1, Fantastic Four Annual<\/strong>s #1-2, a few (far too few!) pre-Marvel genre covers including combat classic Battle <\/strong>#65, and a selection of monster book covers…
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\nInkers, colourists and letterers are not credited here, but that oversight is hopefully covered by us in the great big shopping list under the title…<\/p>\n

Despite the too-tight brief – where are all the war, romance and particularly western and sci fi covers!? – this is a magnificent meander around the things that literally drew most of us into comics… that eye-grabbing first image. Jack Kirby was a master of electric storytelling, but he was also the god of the perfect moment and single pictures worth a thousand words. Look here and learn how and why…
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\n\u00a9 2025 MARVEL.<\/p>\n

Win\u2019s First Christmas Gift Recommendation of the year!: Utter Acme of Visual Iconography\u2026 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jack Kirby, with Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Dick Ayers, Paul Reinman, Bill Everett, George Roussos, Joe Sinnott, Chic Stone, Vince Colletta, George Klein, Sol Brodsky, Al Hartley, Stan Goldberg, Art Simek, Sam Rosen & various, Introduction by Patrick McDonnell (Dark Horse Comics) ISBN: 978-1-50673-246-6 (HB) eISBN: 978-1-50673-247-3 Today in 1917 on New York’s Lower … <\/p>\n

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