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Peer into comics most prodigious imagination in the 'Beta' issue of the Jack Kirby Collector! We'll take a tour of his wildest, most experimental ideas, characters, and series, from the unhinged lunacy of Fighting American, to the non-stop inventiveness of Jimmy Olsen! There's an interview with Jack himself, a look at Kirby's inspirations for the 'secret societies' that permeated his work (from The Project and Habitat to Wakanda and the Night People), the failed genius behind Kamandi's 'UFO Saga,' the many non-superhero genres the King explored during his career, and more! Plus there's Mark Evanier's Kirby Tribute Panel from the 2019 Heroes Con (with Mike Royer, Jim Amash, and Rand Hoppe), a pencil art gallery, and our cover featuring Kirby's unused illo for Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #141, inked by Vince Colletta! 80 pages, full color. Cover price $10.95.

Strap in for the ride of your life, as Jack Kirby Collector boldly goes where no Kirby publication has gone before! It's 'The Many Worlds of Jack Kirby,' from exploring the depths of Sub-Atomica, to the cosmic expanse of outer space in Jack's strips. We'll visit Kirby's work from World War II, the Fourth World, and his hidden worlds of Subterranea, Wakanda, Olympia, Lemuria, Atlantis, the Microverse, and others! Then we'll travel across the pond for the 2021 WonderCon Kirby panel, featuring true Brits Jonathan Ross and Neil Gaiman, and moderated by Mark Evanier. Plus a gallery of Kirby pencil art from 2001, Machine Man, Devil Dinosaur, and more! 80 pages, full color. Cover price $10.95.

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Jack Kirby Collector presents 'Famous Firsts,' documenting the ways Jack was a pioneer in comics and life! From being the first mainstream creator to work coast-to-coast, to helping launch today's Direct Market of comic book distribution, his innovations are countless, and we're showcasing some major ones, including: the Romance Comics genre, Kid Gangs, double-page spreads, Black heroes, new formats, super-hero satire, and more! Featuring our regular columnists, and the 2020 Kirby Virtual Panel from Comic-Con International, moderated by Mark Evanier. Plus a gallery of Jack's pencil art from Captain America, Jimmy Olsen, Captain Victory, Destroyer Duck, Black Panther, unseen animation concepts, and more! Featuring a Fighting American cover by Kirby and Mike Machlan. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $10.95.

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Steve Sherman Tribute! Kirby family members, friends, comics creators, and the entertainment industry salute Jack's assistant (and puppeteer on Men in Black, Pee Wee's Playhouse, and others). Mark Evanier and Steve recall assisting Kirby, Steve discusses Jack's Speak-Out Series, Kirby memorabilia from his collection, an interview with wife Diana Mercer, and Steve's unseen 1974 Kirby/Royer cover! 80 pages, full color. Cover price $10.95.

Jack Kirby Collector #85 brings to life 'Kirby: Animated', detailing how Kirby and his concepts leaped from celluloid, to paper, and back again! From his 1930s start on Popeye and Betty Boop and his work being used on the 1960s Marvel Super-Heroes show, to Fantastic Four (in both 1967 and 1978), Super Friends/Super Powers, Scooby-Doo, Thundarr the Barbarian, and Ruby-Spears: it's the ultimate look at Jack's work in, and influence on, animation! Then comics and animation's Evan Dorkin talks about his Kirby inspirations and an abandoned Kamandi animated series. Plus our regular columnists, and from 2017's Baltimore Comic-Con: Mark Evanier celebrates Kirby's 100th birthday with Tom King, Walter Simonson, Mark Buckingham, Jerry Ordway, Dean Haspiel, John K. Snyder III, and the Kirby Museum's Rand Hoppe. 80 pages, full CP/B&W. Cover price $10.95.

What you saw isn't all you got with Jack Kirby, as our Visual Comparisons issue will reveal! Take a curated trip through the most amazing art assemblage ever, as we offer side-by-side analyses of unused vs. known covers and art, uncorrected images against the published versions, and more! There's Barry Windsor-Smith on his stylized interpretation of Kirby's pencils in Captain America's Bicentennial Battles, newly discovered filler panels from Sky Masters, Kirby's incorporation of real-life images in his work, how Jack deviated from cover layouts he was given, and more! Featuring our regular columnists, and Will Murray's conversations with Joe Simon, Stan Lee, Carmine Infantino, Jerry Robinson, Gil Kane, and other pros conducted just after Jack's passing. Plus an interview with this issue's cover inker Walter Simonson (and if you think you recognize that image, take a closer look!). 82 pages, partial color/partial black & white. Cover price $10.95.

Written by VARIOUS. Art and Cover by Jack Kirby. Book 'em, Jack-o! It's time for a gritty Law & Order issue! We examine how Kirby's lawmen kept the peace, from beat cops like the Newsboy Legion's Jim Harper and 'Terrible' Turpin, to Western gunfighters of the 1950s and '60s-and even future policemen like OMAC and Captain Victory! Also: how a Marvel cop led to the creation of Funky Flashman! Kirby's Justice Traps The Guilty and Headline Comics! Plus a pencil art gallery, our regular columnists, and Mark Evanier moderating the 2022 Kirby Tribute Panel from Comic-Con International (with Sin City's Frank Miller). All behind a cover featuring the 1940s Sandman and Sandy, inked by Mike Machlan. Edited by John Morrow. 80 pages, PC/B&W. Cover price $10.95.

Written by VARIOUS. Art and Cover by Jack Kirby. Since TJKC is for Kirby collectors, we're doing a whole issue about collectors! This issue we'll explore people's quest for and purchase of Jack's original artwork, and what it means to them to own not just the art, but the Kirby comics themselves. Collectors share personal stories about meeting Jack and never-published photos from their encounters, choice fan-art and fan-fiction pertaining to Jack, and some of the coolest memorabilia and Kirby art you've ever laid eyes on! Plus an interview with Marv Wolfman about his (and friend Len Wein's) interactions with Jack first as fans, and then as pros. Features a deluxe wrap-around Kirby cover with fold-out back cover flap, inked by Mike Royer! Edited by John Morrow. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $10.95.

Written by VARIOUS. Art and Cover by Jack Kirby. Jack's friends will be close, and his enemies closer, in the Kirby Conspiracies issue! We'll skulk through palace intrigue in Darkseid's Fourth World regime, the too-many attempted overthrows of Odin in Asgard, newly discovered Jack Kirby & Joe Simon swipes, the many contradictions of Kang, frustrations seeing the Inhumans on TV and the Eternals in theaters, and more! Plus our regular columnists, a never-reprinted Simon & Kirby story, Mark Evanier moderating the 2023 Kirby Tribute Panel from Comic-Con International, an extensive Kirby pencil art gallery, and more! 80 pages, full color. Cover price $10.95.

Written by VARIOUS. Art and Cover by Jack Kirby. This 'What If Kirby...?' issue takes a trip through alternate timelines to discern what might've happened if Jack hadn't been stopped cold in his attempts at revolutionizing comics. We'll consider his ill-fated Speak-Out Series of upscale magazines, DC's abandonment of the Fourth World, his original rejected Spider-Man presentation, Fredric Wertham's effect on Mainline Comics, and even the CIA's involvement with the Lord of Light project! Had things been different, how would Jack's career and output have changed? Plus, Tom Kraft discusses his journey to create and build the 'What If Kirby' website, and teaming with favorite Kirby inkers (including Royer, Sinnott, and Ayers) to produce reimagined Kirby artwork. Also, there's a rare Kirby interview, Mark Evanier and our other regular columnists, a classic Simon & Kirby story, a deluxe gallery of Kirby pencil art, and more! Cover inks and colors by Damian Pickador Zajko. Edited by John Morrow. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $10.95.

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Written by VARIOUS. Art and Cover by Jack Kirby. For its 30th anniversary issue, the Jack Kirby Collector pulls out all the stops for a celebration of Kirby's Greatest Victories! We cover all the major triumphs, from Jack getting the girl (wife Roz Kirby) and scoring early hits with Captain America and Boy Commandos, surviving WWII combat (and helping defeat Hitler!), and unprecedented success with pioneering romance comics, to launching Captain Victory and the direct market, resolving his original art battle with Marvel Comics, and posthumously winning credit at Marvel in 2014-which is the culmination of what the Kirby Collector was all about from its beginning in September 1994! There's also Mark Evanier and our regular columnists, a colossal gallery of Kirby's winningest pencil art, a never-reprinted Simon & Kirby story, and a pat on the back to TwoMorrows' own victories in helping spread the word about the King of Comics! With a Kirby self-portrait cover inked by Vince Colletta. Edited by John Morrow. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $10.95.

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Written by VARIOUS. Art and Cover by Jack Kirby. In the News! From the Boys' Brotherhood Republic newsletter of his childhood, to rare newspaper interviews with Jack and articles about his career, we're clipping anything and everything about Kirby that has to do with newsprint! There's a never-published 1973 San Diego Con panel with Jack discussing DC's coloring with Neal Adams, newly discovered strips that Jack ghosted for other syndicated artists (including Frank Giacoia on Johnny Reb & Billy Yank), unused newspaper strip concepts, collages, a never-reprinted Simon & Kirby Headline Comics tale, a Jimmy Olsen and the Newsboy Legion pencil art gallery, our regular columnists, Mark Evanier's 2024 Kirby Tribute Panel from Comic-Con International, and more! With an unused Jimmy Olsen cover inked by syndicated cartoonist David Reddick. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $10.95.

Written by VARIOUS. Art and Cover by Mike Royer. Supporting Players! We give top billing to some of the lesser lights of Jack's oeuvre, including almost-major villains like Darkseid's crony Kanto the Assassin and Diablo, along with wannabe 'Loser' Rodney Rumpkin, Mr. Little, the Falcon, Randu Singh, and others who finally take center stage! Plus: an unpublished 1970 interview with Jack by Shel Dorf, our regular columnists, Mark Evanier and our other regular columnists, a never-reprinted Simon & Kirby story, a pencil art gallery devoted to second-stringers and little guys bringing up the rear, and more ways of digging out the deeper meanings to be found in even Jack's minor concepts! With an unused Mister Miracle cover inked by Mike Royer. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $10.95.

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Written by John Morrow. Art by Jack Kirby. Cover by Jack Kirby, Terry Austin. SPACE RACES! Jack didn't need a telescope to see cosmic gods and life on other planets, and this issue brings them all into focus for Kirby fans. How Ego, Tana Nile, and the Recorder took Thor to strange new worlds, the space age future of OMAC, Mr. Buddah and other time travelers in Kirby's work, favorite Kirby sci-fi tropes in the Three Rocketeers, Sky Masters and the Black Hole, plus: a 1967 Stan Lee/Jack Kirby interview, Mark Evanier and our other regular columnists, a never-reprinted Simon & Kirby story, a robotic Kirby pencil art gallery, and more, behind a Kirby cover inked by Terry Austin. 40 pages, full color. Cover price $10.95.

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(W) John Morrow (A) Jack Kirby (CA) Jack Kirby Kirby MADNESS! There's a fine line between genius and insanity, so we'll examine some of Jack's more deranged series and characters, from the Dingbats, Goody Rickels, and Destroyer Duck, to the Goozlebobber, Not Brand Echh, and a mountain of animation concepts too crazy to hit the airwaves! Also included is a 1980s interview with Kirby by James Van Hise, an examination of Jack's psychedelic coloring, Kirby's few (but vital) depictions of Dr. Strange, a far-out Forever People art gallery, Mark Evanier and our other regular columnists, a maniacal 1950s Simon & Kirby story, and more! This off-the-wall issue features an unused Machine Man cover inked by Steve Leialoha. 84 pages, full color, not rated. Cover price $10.95.

(W) John Morrow (A) Jack Kirby (CA) Jack Kirby KIRBY QUESTIONS! Can you handle dissecting Kirby's unpublished/untitled/unknown works? Tracking down the myriad Heroes & Villains Sketchbook variants? Hearing Jack discuss his involvement with Phantom Force, or learning about his daughter's career as a 1960s pop star? There's also a revealing 2002 interview with Stan Lee about his book Excelsior, an exploration of the Earth A.D. map in Kamandi #1, more mysteries behind Thor #169's origins of Galactus, the 2024 Kirby panel from the Baltimore Comic-Con (featuring Walter Simonson, Mark Buckingham, and Karl Kesel), plus Mark Evanier and our regular panelists, and a cover inked by Richard Kolkman. Don't ask, just buy it! Edited by John Morrow. Cover price $10.95.

1st printing. The publication that started the TwoMorrows juggernaut presents Kirby Five-Oh!, a special look at the best of everything from Jack Kirby's 50-year career in comics! A distinguished panel of experts to choose and examine the best Kirby stories published each year from 1938-1987 and the best covers from each decade! Plus, Jack's 50 best unused pieces of art, and his 50 best character designs! Also, profiles and commentary by the 50 people most influenced by Kirby's work! To wrap it up, 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! Softcover, 10-in. x 14-in., 168 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.95.

2nd and later printings. The publication that started the TwoMorrows juggernaut presents Kirby Five-Oh!, a special look at the best of everything from Jack Kirby's 50-year career in comics! A distinguished panel of experts to choose and examine the best Kirby stories published each year from 1938-1987 and the best covers from each decade! Plus, Jack's 50 best unused pieces of art, and his 50 best character designs! Also, profiles and commentary by the 50 people most influenced by Kirby's work! To wrap it up, 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! Softcover, 10-in. x 14-in., 168 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.95.

Tribute Edition.

September 1994. 20 Pages, B&W, 8 1/2-in x 12-in.

15th Anniversary Special. 68 Pages, B&W, 8 1/4-in x 12-in, Cover price $7.95.

Box 1 - Art by Jack Kirby. Unopened box of 48 packs of Jack Kirby The Unpublished Trading cards.

1st printing. Written and designed by Brian M. Kane. Introduction by Harlan Ellison. James Bama: American Realist is the first book to span his entire career, exploring his diverse brush from magazine illustrations, paperback book covers, and advertising, and examining his work in pop culture, horror, science fiction, adventure and western genres, as well as his most recent fine art endeavors. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 10 1/2-in., 162 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $34.95.

1st printing. By John Brosnan. John Brosnan takes a looke at how Ian Fleming's master spy made it from his original writings to the Big Screen. He reviews Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, nad Diamonds are Forever. Featuring Behind-the-Scenes photos of cast and crew. Hardcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 176 pages, Text (with B&W photos). Cover price $5.95.

NOTE: All Text is in Spanish and Japanese - 1st printing. Imported from Spain! Do you like Japan? Do you like manga? Would you like to read your favorite manga in their former language? Now you can learn the foundations of Japanese language through practical examples taken from manga, in a book created for those who are interested in learning how to read Japanese...if you can first read Spanish! Illustrated. Spanish text. Softcover, 256 pages, B&W. Cover price $17.99.

Sketchbook featuring the work of Spanish artist Javier Pulido. 56 pages, B&W, Spanish language.

Retail catalog from coin dealer Jay Parrino featuring Golden Age comics, movie posters and more. 9-in. x 12-in., 154 pages, full color. Cover price $20.00.

(#3 on cover). Edited by Paul Moslander. Destroyer cover and article by Raymond Miller, article on UFO's, Fiction stories "Sword of Destiny" part 1 by Clint Bigglestone and "The Nemesis of Evil part 4" by Victor Beron, Sub-Mariner cover reproduction by Paul Moslander, and more. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., loose pages bound with staples, B&W, 32 pages. Cover price $0.35.

Edited by Paul Moslander. Heroic Handful cover by John Chambers, comparison of Spider-Man and the Fly, Fiction stories "Sword of Destiny" part 2 by Clint Bigglestone, "The Vampire in Chinatown" part 1 by Sherman Howard jr, and "The Nemesis of Evil part 5" by Victor Baron, Young Allies cover reproduction by Paul Moslander, and more. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., loose pages bound with staples, B&W, 38 pages. Cover price $0.45.

Edited by Paul Moslander. Regal Representatives cover by John Chambers. Feature on Ian Fleming, Articles include "SF and Visual Media" by Paul E. Moslander, "The Golden Age of Guts" by Bill Gregory. Fiction from Victor Baron and Clint Bigglestone.. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 46 pages, loose pages bound with staples, B&W. Cover price $0.45.

No number - December 1963. Loose pages stapled at the upper left corner, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 14 pages total, black and white.

No number - stamped Jan. 1971. Jerry Bails is advertising his then-new Comic Book Price Guide published in 1970. He also is selling comic books on microfilm, comic book slipcases, and hundreds of rare Golden Age comics. Needless to say, this is a scarce item. Three loose pages, some stapled at the upper left corner, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 16 pages total, black and white.

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1st printing. Written by N.C. Christopher Couch. Art by Jerry Robinson. Jerry Robinson is one of the living legends of American comics. As a member of the original Batman team, he created the first and most iconic of all supervillains, the Joker, and co-created Robin, the archetypal sidekick. During the Golden and Silver Ages of comics, Robinson worked on every comic book genre there was, and brought to life his own super heroes such as London, Jet Scott, and Atoman. His artistry also extended beyond comic books into editorial cartooning and popular syndicated newspaper strips such as Still Life and Flubs & Fluffs, as well as magazine and book illustration, fine arts, academia, and humanitarian affairs. Robinson has been an influential teacher, an important curator of cartooning art exhibits, and a tireless champion of artists' rights. This rich, fully illustrated collection of his work was written in collaboration with the artist himself. Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 224 pages, full color. Cover price $35.00.

1st printing. By Danny Graydon. The Jetsons: The Official Guide to the Cartoon Classic is a fun and fact-filled guide to all things Orbit City! Officially licensed by Warner Bros., this volume includes everything you need to know about your favorite Space Age family, memorable moments from the series, and funny gadgets from 2062. So hop into your flying car and get ready to blast off inot the futuristic past with this informative guide to everything Jetsons! Hardcover. 8 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 80 pages, full color. Cover price $13.95.

Features artwork from Jim Silke. 16 pages, black and white, magazine size. Cover price $10.00.