Jack Kirby Collector (1994 TwoMorrows) comic books 2022-2024

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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.

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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.

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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.