Original Drawing by Carmen Infantino and Murphy Anderson (1966)
from Chip Kidds’s Batman Collected
The Fathers Of The Marvel Age Of Comics
Sunday marks 99 years since Jack Kirby was born on August 28, 1917. To celebrate the birthday weekend, I’ve assembled visual timeline of what Lee & Kirby looked like through the ages.
Note that Stan Lee didn’t start sporting the mustache until Jack Kirby left. Any depiction of Marvel in the ‘60s that shows Lee with a mustache is inaccurate.When Colleen Doran was illustrating Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir, I don’t know whether Lee requested she draw the mustache during that period or if it was just down a lack of research materials, but it kind of complimented the inaccuracy of Stan Lee’s memories.
Happy Birthday, Jack Kirby!
Jack Kirby was the undisputed King of Comics. Nobody before him or since has rivaled the intensity of his output or his feverish creativity. Most of what we know and love in comics is either derived from or came directly from his hand. We all salute this man, who was the paragon of our craft.
This is the design sketch for a little tribute to Kirby that i stuck into my run on Punisher: Franken-Castle, which is the stained glass window from the monsters’ church, featuring Kirby’s monsters and his vision of God himself, based on several drawings he had done, which may look familiar to readers who remember another iteration of God I have drawn in some comics.
This is awesome!
Happy 60th Birthday to John Romita Jr! Can’t believe he’s 60 years old.
Uncanny X-Men #177 was my first pull list comic book. What a way to start!
This was the first X-Men book I ever bought off the rack.
The last page from AVENGERS #162 by George Perez and Pablo Marcos.
You can see that the next to last panel of the page was cut out and replaced by this new close-up of the Black Panther. No idea what it had been before. But corrections in those days were frequently done by cutting up the boards themselves.
