Jack Kirby - Review

ALTER EGO vol.3, no.104

When I was a little lad, reading Mighty World of Marvel in the 1970s, I thought Roy Thomas must be the coolest man alive, Stan Lee’s hep & groovy young assistant & since then, it’s Thomas’s work that has made him one of my fave comics writers, & subsequently, one of my favourite editors.

Captain America: Sentinel of Liberalism?

In the window of the old location of Gosh Comics there was a cartoon that depicted a bloated Captain America serving the needs of US agribusiness. I think this idea of Captain America is completely wrong.

Simon & Kirby Superheroes

Nearly 500 pages of beautifully reproduced old comics by one of the medium’s key teams.

The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics

This huge collection is great value at £12.99 for nearly 500 pages, and it’s nearly all top quality material, from a range of periods.

Essential Captain America 6

My god the slump in standards some way into this is painful. I’m not sure I can think of another Essential volume where it’s so precipitous.

Gil Kane

An interview from 1986 with one of the great veteran comic artists.

The Sandman

We don’t generally think of this as one of Kirby’s more notable works. When the character came back in the ’60s Earth-2 revivals, it was with the earlier gasmask costume, rather than the more conventional superhero outfit on show here. This work was just after S&K created Captain America. But it was a genuine hit…