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It's been very interesting to me to observe how the modeling has impacted on the way I draw, and vice versa.

One of the first things I discovered, when I started modeling, was that repeated elements added a kind of verisimilitude to the models. A space ship, for example, with "modules" looked more realistic than one that was more or less all one piece.

This started to creep into my drawings, even those not based on models, and what I learned from those drawings in turn found its way back into the modeling,

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Kirby very often used real world objects as he starting points. That lent a degree of reality to many of his more wild and crazy machines that would likely not have been there if he's just started from zero.

A lot of modern comicbook artists would do well to study this approach.

As long as we're peeking, here's the title page of the second issue, minus dialog…

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WOW!  There is nothing there to dislike, especially the colors!