Product Description: KIRBY FIVE-OH! is a special look at the best of everything from Jack Kirby s 50-year career in comics! The regular columnists from The Jack Kirby Collector magazine have formed a distinguished panel of experts to choose and examine: The best Kirby story published each year from 1938-1987! The best covers from each decade! Jack s 50 best unused pieces of art! His 50 best character designs! And profiles of, and commentary by, the 50 people most influenced by Kirby s work! Plus there s a 50-page gallery of Kirby s powerful raw pencil art, and a deluxe color section of photos and finished art from throughout his entire half-century oeuvre. This tabloid-sized trade paperback features a previously unseen Kirby Superman cover inked by DC: The New Frontier artist DARWYN COOKE, and an introduction by Mark Evanier, helping make this the ultimate retrospective on the career of the King of comics! (A percentage of profits will be donated to the Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center.)
It's KIRBY! Nuff said! Landmark issue #50 of the Kirby Collector is an oversized collection of many items including 50 best Kirby stories, 50 best covers, 50 best examples of unused art, a 50 page art gallery, 50 best Kirby character designs, 50 people influenced by Kirby, all with text, full page photos and skads of Kirby primo art, pencilled, inked, and colored! Mark Evanier, John Morrow, and much more. A beautiful tribute to the King with hundreds of full page and smaller examples of art. Quality color cover and white, nice inside pages, and a color section that is psychedelic. If you are a fan, you must have this great book or be whipped by Granny Goodness for insubordination.
50 best of everything Kirby!! This book has lots of Kirby's work and after all, that's why i bought this large format paperback. I took one star off for the crappy paper inside, but it does have a glossy cover though. Also lots of facts about kirby you might have not known.It's a list of the 50 best 'everything' about Kirby. If you love Kirby then what are you waiting for? Buy the book already...
the KING is dead long live the KING WOW, the KIRBY legacy continues to grow ! This is the capper of great tabloid issues featuring the world's adoration of Jack Kirby. Why do we all love this guy...because he was the BEST. And still is if you head into a comic shop today. More of his work is in print now then ever !!!
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