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Roger Ash
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| Posted: 25 October 2007 at 12:23pm | IP Logged | 1
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Nice haul, Gerry. I particularly like the Gibbons & Nowlan pieces. The Nowlan is my favorite of the bunch. I just love his style.
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Joe Hollon
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| Posted: 26 October 2007 at 3:43am | IP Logged | 2
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I just managed to buy this piece off of a fellow JBF member:
It's from issue 17 of Jack Kirby's 4th World and is pretty much the climactic scene of the Orion vs Kalibak battle (and the inspiration for the Orion, Kalibak and Black Racer commission I got from JB a couple months ago).
Also, this page is an obvious homage to a similar scene from Kirby's original New Gods run:
(no, this Kirby page is not mine)
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Joakim Jahlmar
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| Posted: 26 October 2007 at 4:05am | IP Logged | 3
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Great Kirby Fourth World piece by JB you got there Joe!
I so hope that DC's current HC collections of Kirby's own Fourth world stuff and the upcoming Tales of the New Gods TPB means that DC will reach a point where JB's entire Jack Kirby's Fourth World is collected. I so want to read that stuff.
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Joe Hollon
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| Posted: 26 October 2007 at 7:40am | IP Logged | 4
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Thanks Joakim. I remember seeing this page on Jim's site* and it got snatched up before I got around to it. Glad to finally bring it "home". As to JB's 4th World run, it is usually fairly available in back issue bins and online retailers like milehighcomics.com and the like. It is must reading (one of my favorites as evidenced by my original art collection).
*I find this page even more interesting since I discovered the Kirby page I posted above.
Edited by Joe Hollon on 26 October 2007 at 7:41am
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Paul Greer
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| Posted: 26 October 2007 at 7:49am | IP Logged | 5
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Joe, yet another great page from Kirby's 4th World. Congrats.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 26 October 2007 at 8:45am | IP Logged | 6
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It makes me crazy to see how crisp those FOURTH WORLD pages look when they turn up here. Those issues, and WONDER WOMAN, seemed to be vexed with some kind of "fuzziness" in the printing. Same with GENERATIONS 3, which I was reviewing just last night. Some of the pages look like they were inked with a Q-Tip, yet on the originals the lines are as slick as cut glass.
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Joe Hollon
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| Posted: 26 October 2007 at 9:25am | IP Logged | 7
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I loved the 4th World art when I read the series and then when I started collecting the pages (I have nine of them now) I also thought they looked tremendously better in person. I know on a couple of the pages I own, the coloring job did not do them any favors in the published version.
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Joakim Jahlmar
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| Posted: 26 October 2007 at 10:11am | IP Logged | 8
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Joe - last time I checked around at MileHigh they only had scattered issues, and from what I've heard of the series I want to have the whole thing. And being in Sweden naturally impinges on the amount of back issue bins I get close to.
But given DC's Kirby(&Fourth Wolrd)-mania, it doesn't seem like such an impossibilty that they might throw in a collection of JB's stuff as well... if nothing else than to milk a profitable cow, one would assume.
Actually keep nurturing hopes that they'll finally get around to a Demon Archives edition as well (Kirby's original stuff).
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Pat Ditton
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| Posted: 26 October 2007 at 10:29am | IP Logged | 9
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Joakim
try www.mycomicshop.com I've had good luck finding back issues there that MHC did not have.
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Aric Shapiro
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| Posted: 26 October 2007 at 10:31am | IP Logged | 10
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AWESOME page Joe. Love the way JB draws Kalibak. I have deliberately not commissioned any of the 4th Worlders, or I'd end up wanting character poses of them all
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Joakim Jahlmar
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| Posted: 26 October 2007 at 11:02am | IP Logged | 11
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Pat - thanks for the link. Always good to have options (especially ones that come with good references). I think I'll keep my cool for a while longer though and see if that collections doesn't appear.
I know that I waited a long while for Alpha Flight to appear in TPB and then gave up like six months before the first TPB did appear... ah well... :)
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Aric Shapiro
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| Posted: 29 October 2007 at 9:56am | IP Logged | 12
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Steve Rude
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