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Mikael Bergkvist
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Sky Masters daily strip, 1958 , anyone know anything more about this?
Is there any scans online or something?
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Paul Gibney
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Not sure what your question is. There is this book:
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Rik Levins
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It was a daily strip published from 1958 to 1961, with some of the prettiest artwork ever seen. I don't know about scans, but the strips have been collected and published in book form.
Kirby and Wood also worked together on the first few issues of Challengers Of The Unknown.
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John Byrne
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One of the GREAT treasures of my original art collection is a Kirby/Wood SKY
MASTERS Sunday. The same team on a CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN
page is not far behind!
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Jim Warden
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I was honored to pick up the Sky Masters Sunday page for JB in person from Roz Kirby at her home in CA several years ago. Wayne Osborne and I made the visit together as a side-trip before the San Diego Comic Con. Mike Thibedeaux was handling the sale of Jack's artwork for Roz and he arranged for us to visit her to buy some pieces of artwork (among them was JB's request for a Sky Masters Sunday). I was not expecting to pick up anything for myself from Roz, but I saw THIS hanging on the wall and I had to have it. I spent all of my San Diego money on it, so I went to the convention completely broke, but VERY happy; the piece is hanging in my entertainment room in the same frame that Roz had it in (although I did replace the glass with UV protected non-glare glass).
In a related note, JB Forum member Ferran Delgado has published a new, high quality, reprint of Sky Masters in Spain. Hopefully he can chime in on this thread and let folks know how/where to order it.
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Ferran Delgado
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This is a test to learn to include links in the text...
Here you'll find a color scan of Warden's awesome promo
piece. http://bp2.blogger.com/_GffQlBTa-y8/R573_PHS4tI/AAAAAAAADZs/ fgIXjqC6ieE/s1600-h/PromoBaixa.jpg
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Ferran Delgado
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Jim was very kind to provide me a hi res scan of the promo piece. Thanks
to it, I could create a cover for the first book of the spanish edition of The
Complete Sky Masters book published by Pure Imagination.
In this blog you can see the
evolution of it.
If you're interested to learn more about the spanish edition and see
samples of printed sundays and comparations among diferent formats of
a same sunday, visit my blog.
Since I have almost no experience posting in this forum, please excuse
me if I do something not allowed.
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Ferran Delgado
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(Fan mode on):
Byrne: Wow, do you own the real original art of a sunday strip by Kirby
and Wood?!?!?! Impressive! I'd love to take a look at a scan! I already knew
about the original art of three sundays by Kirby and Ayers, but this is the
second piece inked by Wood that I know. The first one was this one
owned by Greg Theakston: 
BTW, is this piece, by a coincidence, the one you own?
This piece was shown at Ray wyman's book "The Art of Jack Kirby"
published by Blue Rose Press, and you could see the piece hang up at
Kirby's wall in a interview done at his home.
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Ferran Delgado
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(Editor mode on)
The original Pure Imagination book will be split in three books in the
spanish edition. The first and second will cover the dailies, and the third
the sundays since they have independent storylines. The third will also
include plenty of extras, so many as I can gather.
The spanish edition is supported by The Jack Kirby Estate.
The first book includes half of the daily strips, the original intro by
Theakston, a new intro by a local Kirby expert, and a big section with
many extras. Also it includes a two page DPS to support
theJack Kirby Museum, and a
poster with a color reproduction of Warden's piece.
I also could improve the quality of 25 daily strips which were reproduced
from microfilms in the original book, and they had bad quality. I could do
it because a generous collector provided me with hires scans of printed
strips, and I restored them. You can see samples of that restoration here.
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Ferran Delgado
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(Still editor mode on)
The main improvement of the spanish edition is that the third book will
publish all the sunday strips in full color for first time ever!
The images came from printed sundays carefully restored. A sample of it
was included in page 102 of Evanier's book. This is the
after and this is the before.
My dream is that, once the three books are finished, they would be
compiled and published worldwide in order to divulge this masterwork as
much as possible.
The second book is scheduled by 2009 and the third by 2010 since the
restoration is very time consuming, and I do this project aside my regular
work lettering about 1000 pages of manga.
My publisher can't distribute the book outside Spain, but we're working in
order the Jack Kirby Estate would do it with the permission of the original
publisher, Greg Theakston. I'll let you know any news about this.
Of course, if Byrne wish a copy, I'll be glad to send it since he was my
hero in my youth. I just would need an adress. Maybe Jim could provide it
in private mail?
I just hope that I didn't write too much... ;-)
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John Byrne
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Scanning such a large, framed piece (including getting it down off the wall!)
is a bit more work than I'm prepared to take on just now. But here's the
"next best thing". . .
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Ferran Delgado
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Oh my god!! It's one of the best samples!! Congratulations!!
You must be very grateful to Jim for getting this beauty for you!
Since I'm also an original art collector, I'd love to see you whole collection!
I recall seeing a DPS from THE Superman/Spider-Man crossover behind
you in a interview, and it looked awesome!
Getting back to the SM item, if you have the Pure Imagination book, you'll
check that, once the horizontal strip was converted as vertical, they
sacrificed the last couple of panels of the scrapbook. As I'm trying to do
the definitive edition, I'm gathering as many unpublished panels as
possible. If you ever could scan them at hi res and send them to me, it
would be a great addition!
Anyway, Theakston told me that he still keeps Scrapbook spare panels,
and he'll scanned them. Maybe the panels from your original art are
among them, and this way, it would be not necessary to bother you.
Anyway, I'm not in a hurry since the third book won't be published till
2010. I'll let you know.
About sending you a copy of the spanish book, since I'll send one to Jim,
I could include another one, and this way, it wouldn't be necessary for
you to give me your adress.
I "only" own three original color guides by Kirby. You'll find the best one
here,
this one is inked by Ayers,
and this is the another one
also by Ayers.
Notice the extra panels needed when the strip is converted to vertical
format. They added them as the sixth panel. You can check it in the PI
book.
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