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\nBy Jack Kirby<\/strong> with Joe Simon<\/strong>, France E. Herron<\/strong>, Dave Wood<\/strong>, Bill Finger<\/strong>, Robert<\/strong> Bernstein<\/strong>, Frank Giacoia<\/strong>, George Roussos<\/strong>, Roz Kirby<\/strong> & various (DC Comics)
\nISBN: 978-1-4012-3107-1 (HB)<\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced in less enlightened times.<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy New Year! Let\u2019s look at something old and valued!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Green Arrow<\/strong> is one of DC\u2019s Golden All-Stars. He\u2019s been a fixture of the company – in many instances for no discernible reason – more or less continually since his 1941 debut in More Fun Comics<\/strong> #73, cover dated November but on sale from September 19th<\/sup> 1941. Happy 85th<\/sup> and Many Happy Returns, Emerald Archer!<\/em><\/p>\n

In those distant heady days, origins weren\u2019t as important as image and storytelling, so creators Mort Weisinger & George Papp never bothered. The first inkling of formative motivations came in More Fun Comics<\/strong> # 89 (March 1943) wherein Joe Samachson & Cliff Young detailed \u2018The Birth of the Battling Bowman!<\/em>\u2019 With the secret revealed, it was promptly ignored for years, leaving later workmen France Herron, Jack Kirby and his wife Roz to fill in the blanks again…<\/p>\n

Jack Kirby was – and remains – the most important single influence in the history of US comics. There are millions of words written – such as those here by former Kirby assistant-made-good Mark Evanier in a revelatory. myth-busting Introduction<\/em> to this gloriously enthralling hardback compilation – about what the King has done and meant, and you should read those too, if you are at all interested in our medium.<\/p>\n

Tragically this particular tome is not available digitally, but that will just make it an even more impressive and rewarding once you get a copy. It might even prompt the publisher to reprint and repackage these mini masterpieces…<\/p>\n

For those of us who grew up with his work, Kirby\u2019s are the images which furnish and clutter our interior mindsets. Close your eyes and think \u201crobot\u201d and the first thing that pops up is a Kirby kreation. Every fantastic, futuristic city in our heads is crammed with his chunky yet towering spires. Because of Jack, we all know what the bodies beneath those stony-head statues on Easter Island look like, and we are all viscerally aware that you can never trust great big aliens parading around in their underpants…<\/p>\n

When comic books began, in a remarkably short time Kirby and creative partner Joe Simon became the wonder-kid dream-team of the nascent industry. After generating a year\u2019s worth of the influential monthly Blue Bolt<\/strong>, and dashing off Captain Marvel Adventures<\/strong> (#1) for Fawcett, Martin Goodman nailed them down. He appointed Simon editor at Timely, where \u201cS&K\u201d created a host of iconic stars like Red Raven<\/strong>, the first Marvel Boy<\/strong>, Hurricane<\/strong>, The Vision<\/strong>, The<\/strong> Young Allies<\/strong>, immortal villain The Red Skull<\/strong> and of course million-selling mega-hit Captain America<\/strong> (and Bucky <\/strong>AKA Winter Soldier<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

When Goodman failed to make good on his financial obligations, Simon & Kirby quit and were snapped up by National DC, who welcomed them with open arms and a fat chequebook. Bursting with ideas the staid company were never really comfortable with, the pair were initially an uneasy fit, and were given two moribund strips to play with until they found their creative feet: Sandman<\/strong> and Manhunter<\/strong>. They turned both around virtually overnight and, once established and left to their own devices, switched to the \u201cKid Gang\u201d genre they pioneered at Timely. Joe & Jack created wartime sales sensation The Boy Commandos<\/strong> and Homefront iteration the Newsboy Legion<\/strong> before being called up to serve in the war they had been fighting on comic book pages since 1940. When they returned it was to a very different funnybook business, and soon they left National to create their own little empire.<\/p>\n

Simon & Kirby heralded and ushered in the first American age of mature comics – not just by inventing the Romance genre, but with all manner of challenging modern material about real people in extraordinary situations. They saw it all disappear again in less than eight years. Their small stable of magazines – generated for an association of interlinked companies known as Prize\/Crestwood\/Pines\/Essenkay\/Mainline Comics – blossomed and as quickly wilted when the industry abruptly contracted throughout the 1950s. After years of working for others, Simon & Kirby had finally established their own publishing house, producing comics for a far more sophisticated audience, only to find themselves in a sales downturn and awash in public hysteria generated by an anti-comicbook pogrom.<\/p>\n

Hysterical censorship-fever spearheaded by US Senator Estes Kefauver<\/em> and opportunistic pop psychologist Dr. Frederic Wertham<\/em> led to witch-hunting Senate hearings. Caving in, publishers adopted a castrating straitjacket of draconian self-regulation. Horror titles produced under the aegis and emblem of the Comics Code Authority were sanitised and anodyne affairs in terms of Shock & Gore, even though the market\u2019s appetite for suspense and the uncanny was still extremely high. Non superhero Crime comics vanished and mature themes challenging society\u2019s status quo were suppressed…<\/p>\n

Simon quit the business for advertising, but Kirby soldiered on, taking his skills and ideas to a number of safer, if less daring, companies. As the panic subsided, Kirby returned briefly to DC where he worked on mystery tales and Green Arrow<\/strong> (a long-lived back-up in Adventure Comics<\/strong> & World\u2019s Finest Comics<\/strong>) whilst concentrating on his long-dreamed-of newspaper strip feature Sky Masters of the Space Force<\/strong>. During that period, Kirby also re-packaged a superteam concept kicking around in his head since he and Joe had closed their innovative, ill-timed ventures. At the end of 1956, Showcase<\/strong> #6 (a try-out title that launched many DC mainstays) premiered Challengers of the Unknown<\/strong>. After 3 more test issues \u201cthe Challs\u201d won their own title, with Kirby in command for the first 8. Then a legal dispute with Editor Jack Schiff kicked off and the King was gone…<\/p>\n

During that brief 3-year period (cover-dates 1957-1959), Kirby also crafted a plethora of short comics yarns which this fabulous tome re-presents in originally-published order. The roster comprises superhero, mystery and science fiction shorts from Tales of the Unexpected<\/strong> #12, 13, 15-18, 21- 24; House of Mystery<\/strong> #61, 63, 65, 66, 70, 72, 76, 84, 85; House of Secrets <\/strong>#3, 4, 8, 12; My Greatest Adventure<\/strong> #15- 18, 20, 21, 28; Adventure Comics<\/strong> #250-256 and World\u2019s Finest Comics<\/strong> # 96-99: a long-lost gem from All-Star Western<\/strong> #99 plus 3 quirky vignettes by Simon & Kirby from 1946-1947 for Real Fact Comics<\/strong> #1, 2 & 6.<\/p>\n

Records from those days when no creator was allowed a by-line are sparse and scanty, so many of these carry no writer\u2019s credit (and besides, Kirby was notorious for rewriting scripts he was unhappy drawing) but Group Editor Schiff\u2019s regular stable of authors included Dave Wood, Bill Finger, Ed Herron, Joe Samachson, George Kashdan, Jack Miller & Otto Binder, so feel free to play the \u201cwhodunit\u201d game…<\/p>\n

National DC Comics was relatively slow in joining the post-war mystery comics boom, but as 1951 closed they at last launched a gore-free, comparatively straight-laced anthology which nevertheless became one of their longest-running and most influential titles: The House of Mystery<\/strong> (cover-dated December 1951\/January 1952). Its success inevitably led to a raft of similar, creature-filled fantasy anthologies including Sensation Mystery<\/strong>, Tales of the Unexpected<\/strong>, My Greatest Adventure<\/strong> and House of Secrets<\/strong>. With the Comics Code in full effect, plot options for mystery and suspense stories were savagely curtailed: limited to ambiguous, anodyne magical artefacts, wholesomely educational mythological themes, science-based miracles and criminal chicanery.<\/p>\n

Although marvellously illustrated, stories were rationalistic, fantasy-adventure vehicles and they dominated until the early 1960s when superheroes (reinvigorated after Julius Schwartz reintroduced The Flash<\/strong> in Showcase<\/strong> #4, October 1956) usurped them…<\/p>\n

In this compilation, following that aforementioned Introduction – describing Kirby\u2019s 3 tours of duty with DC in very different decades – the vintage wonderment commences with another example of the ingenious versatility of Jack & Joe.<\/p>\n

Originating in the wholesome and self-explanatory Real Fact Comics<\/strong>, \u2018The Rocket-Lanes of Tomorrow\u2019<\/em> (#1, March\/April 1946) and \u2018A World of Thinking Robots\u2019<\/em> from #2 (May\/June 1946) are forward-looking, retro-fabulous graphic prognostications of the \u201cWorld That\u2019s Coming\u201d. A longer piece in #6 (July\/August 1947) then details the history and achievements of \u2018Backseat Driver\u2019<\/em> and road-safety campaigner Mildred McKay<\/em>. These were amongst the very last strips the duo produced for National before moving to Crestwood\/Pines, so we skip ahead a decade and more for Jack\u2019s return in House of Secrets<\/strong> #3 (March\/April 1957) where \u2018The Three Prophecies\u2019 <\/em>eerily depicts a spiritualist conman being fleeced by an even more skilful grifter… until Fate takes a hand…<\/p>\n

Mythological mysticism informs \u2018The Thing in the Box\u2019<\/em> (House of Mystery<\/strong> #61, April 1957) wherein a salvage diver is obsessed with a deadly casket his captain is all too eager to dump into the ocean. From the same month, Tales of the Unexpected<\/strong> #12 focuses on \u2018The All-Seeing Eye\u2019<\/em> as a journalist responsible for many impossible scoops realises the potential dangers of the ancient artefact he employs far outweigh its benefits…<\/p>\n

In House of Secrets<\/strong> #4 (May\/June 1957) the \u2018Master of the Unknown\u2019<\/em> seems destined to take the big cash prize on a TV quiz show until the producer deduces his uncanny secret, after which \u2018I Found the City under the City\u2019<\/em> (My Greatest Adventure<\/strong> #15, from the same month) details how fishermen recover the last testament of a lost oceanographer and read of how he intended to foil an impending invasion by aquatic aliens…
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\nFrom May 1957, France E. Herron & Kirby investigated \u2018The Face Behind the Mask\u2019<\/em> (Tales of the Unexpected<\/strong> #13): a gripping crime-caper involving gullible men, a vibrant femme fatale and a quest for eternal youth. There was no fakery to \u2018Riddle of the Red Roc\u2019<\/em> (House of Mystery<\/strong> #63, June) as a venal explorer hatches and trains the invulnerable bird of legend, creating an unstoppable thief before succumbing to his own greed. My Greatest Adventure<\/strong> #16 (July\/August) features a truly fearsome threat as an explorer is sucked into a deadly association, creating death and destruction to learn \u2018I Died a Thousand Times\u2019<\/em>…<\/p>\n

That month, Unexpected<\/strong> #15 offered \u2018Three Wishes to Doom\u2019<\/em>: a crafty thriller proving that even with a genie\u2019s lamp, crime does not pay, after which weird science transforms a rash scientist into \u2018The Human Dragon\u2019<\/em> (HoM<\/strong> #65 August, with George Roussos inking his old pal Jack), although his time to repent is brief as a criminal mastermind capitalises on his misfortune…<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an understandable frisson of foreshadowing to \u2018The Magic Hammer\u2019<\/em> (TotU <\/strong>#16 August) as it relates how a prospector finds a magical mallet capable of creating storms and goes into the rainmaking business… until the original owner turns up…<\/p>\n

A smart gimmick underscores a tantalising tale of plagiarism and possible telepathy in \u2018The Thief of Thoughts\u2019<\/em> (HoM<\/strong> #66 September) whilst straight Sci Fi tropes inform the tale of a hotel detective and a most unusual guest in \u2018Who is Mr. Ashtar?\u2019<\/em> (TotU<\/strong> #17, September) before MGA <\/strong>#17 (September\/October 1957) reveals how aliens intent on invasion brainwash a millionaire scientist to eradicate humanity in \u2018I Doomed the World\u2019. <\/em>Happily one glaring error was made…<\/p>\n

In Tales of the Unexpected<\/strong> #18 (October), Kirby shows how an astute astronomer saves us all by outwitting an energy being with big appetites in \u2018The Man Who Collected Planets\u2019<\/em>, after which MGA<\/strong> #18 (November\/December 1957) ushers in the comic book Atomic Age with \u2018I Tracked the Nuclear Creature\u2019<\/em>, detailing how a hunter sets out to destroy a macabre mineral monster created by uncontrolled fission…<\/p>\n

A new year dawned with Roussos inking \u2018The Creatures from Nowhere!\u2019<\/em> (HoM <\/strong>#70, January 1958) as escaped alien beasts rampage through a quiet town, and HoS <\/strong>#8 (January\/February) finds greed, betrayal, murder and supernatural suspense are the watchwords when a killer tries to silence \u2018The Cats Who Knew Too Much!\u2019 <\/em>Tales of the Unexpected<\/strong> #21 (also January) sees a smart investor proving too much for apparent extraterrestrial \u2018The Mysterious Mr. Vince\u2019<\/em>, whilst a month later Unexpected<\/strong> #22 sees an \u2018Invasion of the Volcano Men\u2019<\/em> start in fiery fury and panicked confrontations before resolving into an alliance against uncontrolled forces of nature.<\/p>\n

Kirby never officially worked for National\u2019s prodigious Westerns division, but apparently his old friend and neighbour Frank Giacoia did, and occasionally needed Jack\u2019s legendary pencilling speed to meet deadlines. \u2018The Ambush at Smoke Canyon!\u2019<\/em> features long-running cavalry hero Foley of the Fighting 5th<\/sup><\/strong> single-handedly stalking Pawnee renegades in a somewhat standard sagebrush saga scripted by Herron and inked by Giacoia from All-Star Western<\/strong> #99 (February\/March 1958).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in House of Mystery<\/strong> #72 (March) a shameless B-Movie Producer seemingly becomes \u2018The Man Who Betrayed Earth\u2019<\/em> whilst in MGA <\/strong>#20 (March\/April), interplanetary bonds of friendship are forged when space pirates kidnap assorted sentients and a canny Earthling saves the day in \u2018I Was Big-Game on Neptune\u2019<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Inadvertent cosmic catastrophe is narrowly averted in TotU <\/strong>#23 (March) when one man realises how to make contact with \u2018The Giants from Outer Space\u2019<\/em>, after which issue #24 (April) slips into wild whimsy as \u2018The Two-Dimensional Man!\u2019<\/em> strives desperately to correct his incredible condition before being literally blown away…<\/p>\n

When an early space-shot brings back all-consuming horror in MGA<\/strong> #21 (May\/June 1958), a brace of boffins realise \u2018We Were Doomed by the Metal-Eating Monster\u2019<\/em> before \u2018The Artificial Twin\u2019<\/em> (HoM<\/strong> #76, July) combines mad doctor super-science with deception and fraud, whilst House of Secrets<\/strong> #12 (September) reveals a frantic man struggling to close \u2018The Hole in the Sky\u2019<\/em> before invading aliens use it to conquer humanity…<\/p>\n

Also scattered throughout this extraordinary compendium of the bizarre is a stunning and bombastic Baker\u2019s Dozen of Kirby\u2019s fantastic covers from the period, but for most modern fans the real meat is the short, sharp salvo of superhero shockers that follow…<\/p>\n

On his debut, Green Arrow<\/strong> proved quite successful. With boy partner Speedy<\/em>, he was one of precious few masked stalwarts to survive beyond the Golden Age. A blatant blend of Batman<\/strong> and Robin Hood<\/strong> seemed to have very little going for itself, but the Emerald Archer always managed to keep himself in vogue. He carried on adventuring in the back of other heroes\u2019 comic books, joined the Justice League of America<\/strong> just as their star was rising and later became – courtesy of Denny O\u2019Neil & Neal Adams – the spokes-hero of the anti-establishment generation, during the 1960-70\u2019s \u201cRelevancy Comics\u201d trend.<\/p>\n

Later, under Mike Grell\u2019s stewardship and thanks to epic miniseries Green Arrow: the Longbow Hunters<\/strong>, he at last became a headliner: re-imagined as an urban predator dealing with corporate thugs and serial killers rather than costumed goof-balls. This version, more than any other, informs and underpins the TV incarnation seen in Arrow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After his long career and numerous venue changes, by the time of Schwartz\u2019s resurrection of the Superhero genre the Battling Bowman was a solid second feature in Adventure<\/strong> and World\u2019s Finest Comics<\/strong> where, as part of a wave of retcons, reworkings and spruce-ups DC administered to their remaining costumed old soldiers, a fresh start began in the summer of 1958. Part of that revival happily coincided with Kirby\u2019s return to National Comics.<\/p>\n

As revealed in Evanier\u2019s Introduction<\/em>, after working on anthological stories for Schiff, the King was asked to revise the idling archer and responded by beefing up science fictional aspects. When supervising editor – and creator – Weisinger objected, changes were toned down and Kirby saw the writing on the wall. He lost interest and began quietly looking elsewhere for work…<\/p>\n

What resulted was a tantalisingly short run of 11 astounding action-packed, fantasy-filled swashbucklers, the first of which was scripted by Bill Finger as \u2018The Green Arrows of the World\u2019<\/em> (Adventure Comics<\/strong> #251, July 1958) sees costumed archers from many nations attending a conference in Star City. They are blithely unaware a fugitive criminal with murder in his heart is hiding within their masked midst…
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\nAugust\u2019s #251 takes a welcome turn to astounding science fiction as Kirby scripted and resolved \u2018The Case of the Super-Arrows\u2019<\/em> wherein the Amazing Archers take possession of high-tech trick shafts sent from 3000 AD. World\u2019s Finest Comics<\/strong> #96 (writer unknown) then reveals \u2018Five Clues to Danger\u2019<\/em> – a classic kidnap mystery made even more impressive by Kirby\u2019s lean, raw illustration and wife Roz\u2019s sharp inking. A practically unheard-of continued case spanned Adventure<\/strong> #252 & 253 as Dave Wood, Jack & Roz posed \u2018The Mystery of the Giant Arrows\u2019<\/em> before GA & Speedy briefly became \u2018Prisoners of Dimension Zero\u2019<\/em> – a spectacular riot of giant aliens and incredible exotic other worlds, followed in WFC<\/strong> #97 (October 1958) with a grand old-school crime-caper in Herron\u2019s \u2018The Mystery of the Mechanical Octopus\u2019<\/em>. Kirby was having fun and going from strength to strength. Adventure<\/strong> #254 featured \u2018The Green Arrow\u2019s Last Stand\u2019<\/em> (by Wood): a particularly fine example with the Bold Bowmen crashing into a hidden valley where Sioux warriors thrive unchanged since the time of Custer. The next issue saw the heroes battling a battalion of Japanese soldiers who refused to surrender their island bunker in \u2018The War That Never Ended!\u2019<\/em> (also by Wood). December\u2019s WFC<\/strong> #98 nearly ended the heroes\u2019 careers in Herron\u2019s \u2018The Unmasked Archers\u2019<\/em>, when a private practical joke caused the pair to inadvertently expose themselves to public scrutiny and deadly danger…<\/p>\n

As previous stated, in the heady early days origins weren\u2019t as important as just plain getting on with it. The definitive version was left to later workmen Herron, Jack & Roz (in Kirby\u2019s penultimate tale), filling in the blanks with \u2018The Green Arrow\u2019s First Case\u2019<\/em> as the superhero revival hit its stride. It appeared in Adventure Comics<\/strong> #256 – cover-dated January 1959 – and this time the story stuck, becoming, with numerous tweaking over successive years, the basis of the modern Amazing Archer of page and screen. Here we learned how wealthy wastrel Oliver Queen<\/em> was cast away on a deserted island and learned to use a handmade bow and survive. When scurvy mutineers fetched up on his desolate shores, Queen used his newfound skills to defeat them and returned to civilisation with a new career and purpose…<\/p>\n

Kirby\u2019s spectacular swansong came in WFC<\/strong> #99 (January 1959) in \u2018Crimes under Glass\u2019<\/em>. Written by Robert Bernstein, it sees GA & Speedy confronting crafty criminals with a canny clutch of optical armaments, before the Archer steadfastly slid back into the sedate, gimmick-heavy rut of pre-Kirby times…<\/p>\n

The King had moved on to other enterprises – Archie Comics with Joe Simon and a little outfit which would soon be calling itself Marvel Comics – but his rapid rate of creation had left completed tales in DC\u2019s inventory pile which slowly emerged for months thereafter and neatly wrap up this comprehensive compendium of the uncanny. From My Greatest Adventure<\/strong> #28 (February 1959) \u2018We Battled the Microscopic Menace!\u2019<\/em> pits brave boffins against a ravening devourer their meddling with unknown forces had unleashed, whilst a month later HoM<\/strong> #84 depicted a terrifying struggle against \u2018The Negative Man\u2019<\/em> as an embattled researcher fought his own unleashed energy doppelganger.<\/p>\n

It all ends in an unforgettable spectacular as House of Mystery<\/strong> #85 (April 1959) awakens \u2018The Stone Sentinels of Giant Island\u2019<\/em> to rampage across a lost Pacific island and threaten the brave crew of a scientific survey vessel… until one wise man deduces their incredible secret…<\/p>\n

Jack was and is unique and uncompromising: his words and pictures are an unparalleled, hearts-and-minds grabbing delight no comics lover could resist. If you\u2019re not a fan or simply not prepared to see for yourself what all the fuss has been about then no words of mine will change your mind.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t alter the fact that Kirby\u2019s work from 1937 to his death in 1994 shaped the American comics scene and the entire comics planet: affecting billions of readers and thousands of creators in every arena of artistic endeavour for generations. He still wins new fans and apostles every day, from the young and naive to the most cerebral of intellectuals. His work is instantly accessible, irresistibly visceral, deceptively deep and simultaneously mythic and human. This collection from his transformative middle period exults in sheer escapist wonderment, and no one should miss the graphic exploits of these perfect adventures in that ideal setting of not-so-long-ago in a simpler, better time and place than ours.
\n\u00a9 1946, 1947, 1957, 1958, 1959, 2011 DC Comics. All Rights<\/p>\n

Today in 1912 British cartoonist and strip master Tony Weare<\/strong> was born. Where the tarnation is that Matt Marriot<\/strong> compilation? Ten years later in Trenton, New Jersey Sherrill David Robinson<\/strong> followed. You know Jerry<\/em><\/strong> for co creating the Joker <\/strong>and his Batman<\/strong> stuff, but try tracking down his Still Life<\/strong> panels…<\/p>\n

In 1980, Gary Larson<\/strong>\u2019s The Far Side<\/strong> debuted, only to stop original material on the same day 15 years later. How weird is that? Of course you could ascertain all that by seeing observing There\u2019s a HAIR in My Dirt! – A Worm\u2019s Story<\/a><\/strong> please link to November 2nd<\/sup> 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jack Kirby with Joe Simon, France E. Herron, Dave Wood, Bill Finger, Robert Bernstein, Frank Giacoia, George Roussos, Roz Kirby & various (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-4012-3107-1 (HB) This book includes Discriminatory Content produced in less enlightened times. Happy New Year! Let\u2019s look at something old and valued! Green Arrow is one of DC\u2019s Golden … <\/p>\n

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