Jack Kirby's Thor Artist Edition IDW Publishing, July 2016 Doug: On July 16th I returned home from my annual work at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. While it was great to be back home after what had been 11 days away, it was also wonderful to finally lay eyes on this book. I'd ordered it many months ago, and as seems to be true with projects of this ilk I sat through a few publication delays.

It arrived just a couple of days before I did, but trust me -- the wait was worth it! For those of you who were with me a few weeks ago when I offered my thoughts on, I will again be using photographs of this text as opposed to scans. Similar in size to John Romita's Amazing Spider-Man Artifact Edition (and larger than the Dark Knight book), this is a cumbersome tome. To get things rolling, how about this two-page spread to greet the reader/viewer? To you stats geeks, here's the 'tale of the tape' -- from the good folks at: Jack Kirby’s The Mighty Thor Artist’s Edition Includes Journey Into Mystery #s 111, 117-118, Thor #s 134-135, Thor Annual #2, plus a gallery of covers, splashes and pages. • Publication Date: July 06, 2016 (solicited for May 2016) • Publisher Series Number: 42 • ISBN: 978-1-63140-603-4 • Diamond Item Code: JAN160388 (In Stock) • 15″ x 22″ • 160 pages • $125 USD • Initial Reported Sales: No data available yet • Variants: none Right after the frontispiece pictured above you'll find the Table of Contents, which is really nice, and I display it for those of you who might consider at some point purchasing this volume.

I especially like that it shows the inkers involved in these artifacts. Toward the end of the post I'll show you some of the samples from the 'gallery section', which really, really enhance the already wonderful offerings contained between these covers. Think about it -- six complete Jack Kirby Thor stories! How To Install Duraflash Vinyl Deck Flashing Aluminum. Oh, you said you wanted words?

Well that splash sure had 'em! I love the way the page is marked up at the top, and it's amazing the lines that get lost in the printing process. Download Free Sports Illustrated Cover Template Free. I also enjoyed seeing the trim size of the final product (here at 6 1/4' x 9 1/4'). That brings me to something many of you are already wondering. What of Kirby's margin notes?

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Karen and I discussed offline how great this book should be, especially in light of the ongoing conversation of who did what creatively between Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Personally, I've always felt that Kirby was the storyteller and Stan was the wordsmith. Does that give one man more credit than the other? Download Free Bernard Lewis Islam And The West Pdf Merge. The symbiosis of their collaboration, the gestalt of the work, is what matters. All the rest seems minutiae in the face of the greater work.

However, I'm sorry to report that some of those margin notes are not fully viewable in this book. I do not know if that's due to trimming at the printer five decades ago, or trimming in the photo process by IDW Publishing (I assume the former). However, there are abundant pages where Kirby's notes are complete, as in the examples below. Lastly, this Artist Edition contained several of the very earliest Thor pages, from Journey Into Mystery #s 83 and 85. It was a nice idea, and really showed the evolution of the character not only in Kirby's mind, but also from the introductory inks of Joe Sinnott all the way through much of the pages shown in this volume, inked by Vince Colletta. Specifically in regard to Vinnie, and I'm sure many of you want to ask, is it possible to see where Vinnie erased Jack's pencils? I've only been through the book twice, and haven't actually read from it.