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William Costello
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For MARVEL, the first Jack Kirby art I saw was in Fantastic Four #85 in 1969. It was the first time I read Fantastic Four.

For DC, it was Jimmy Olsen #133, when Jack Kirby moved over to DC.
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My first DC Kirby was Jimmy Olsen #137. The Four Armed Terror left quite an impression. 
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FF #5 as reprinted in Bring on the Bad Guys -- one of my teenage uncles had a copy and I would read it every time we'd go to my grandparents' house.
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This thread is making me think of some other first encounters. That SUPERMAN ANNUAL I bought as a child in England introduced me to Curt Swan (tho it would be decades before I knew his name). The SUPER COMICS reprint I bought shortly after that introduced me to Dick Sprang, and it was also thru Batman, a while later, that I first saw Shelly Moldoff. WONDER WOMAN, which I did not buy (it was a "girl's book") showed me Ross Andru--and delighted I was when his art showed up later on METAL MEN. THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD introduce me to Mike Sekowsky, and a few months later to Joe Kubert. Gil Kane was in there somewhere, via SHOWCASE's GREEN LANTERN. And THE FLASH brought Carmine Infantino into my experience.

Time it was, and what a time it was!

(Those are not chronological, BTW.)

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Damn, time really flies by. In February 2016, I started collecting and compiling some data for a new topic thread and this thread and JB's comments have added some motivation to get it started. 

Some of the text I was compiling:
There are many artists/creators who were always there and I could not say when I first noticed them. People like Jack Kirby, Curt Swan, Gil Kane, Steve Ditko, Nick Cardy, Kurt Schaffenberger, Stan Lee and many more, (so many more), predate my awareness of the artists/creators.

To be continued in "Bright New Stars"





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It’s crazy that I’ve been working professionally in comics more than twice as long as I’d been alive when I got my first jobs, yet I still feel like I’m one of the new kids on the block.
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