Jack Kirby Collector (1994 TwoMorrows) comic books 2023-2025

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.

Add to cart Near Mint $8.80

Add to cart Near Mint $8.80

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.

Add to cart Near Mint $10.75

Add to cart Near Mint $10.75

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.

Add to cart Near Mint $10.75

Add to cart Near Mint $10.75

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.