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TM & ©2012 Jack Kirby Estate. Gallery 1 (above) When Kirby returned to Marvel in 1975, he continued using collage, as here for his adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. (right) Fantastic Four #39, 1965. (below) Marvelmania Portfolio, 1970. • FANTASTIC FOUR #24, March 1964 (first published collage art, 2 panels) • FANTASTIC FOUR #29, Aug. 1964 (1 collage page) • FANTASTIC FOUR #32, Nov. 1964 (1 collage page) • FANTASTIC FOUR #33, Dec. 1964 (1 collage page) • SGT. FURY #13, Dec. 1964 (1 collage panel) • FANTASTIC FOUR #37, April 1965 (1 collage page) • FANTASTIC FOUR #39, June 1965 (1 collage page, shown at right)) • FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #3, 1965 (1 collage page) • JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #120, Sept. 1965 (1 collage panel) • FANTASTIC FOUR #48, March 1966 (1 collage page) • FANTASTIC FOUR #51, June 1966 (1 collage page) • THOR #131, Aug. 1966 (1 collage panel) • THOR #132, Sept. 1966 (1 collage page) • FANTASTIC FOUR #55, Oct. 1966 (1 collage panel) • FANTASTIC FOUR #62, May 1967 (2 collage pages) • FANTASTIC FOUR SPECIAL #6, Nov. 1968 (2 collage pages) • THOR #160, Jan. 1969 (1 collage page) • THOR #161, Feb. 1969 (2 collage pages) • THOR #162, March 1969 (2 collage pages) • FANTASTIC FOUR #89, Aug. 1969 (1 collage page) • MARVELMANIA PORTFOLIO, 1970 (right) (collage of astronaut riding spacecraft) • SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #134, Dec. 1970 (2 collage pages) The King Of Collage irby’s first published collage art appeared in Fantastic Four #24 (cover-dated March 1964). K Jack would’ve likely produced and handed in the artwork to Marvel in late 1963, at the height of the Pop Art hysteria. He would continue creating collages for the next two decades, with his final piece produced specifically for comics appearing in the 1985 Hunger Dogs graphic novel (at last, finally being reproduced in full-color with quality paper and printing). Friends and family say Jack found the art of collage relaxing and therapeutic. Fans found them fascinating in print, but until recently, his collages have brought only modest prices on the original art market (and generally only are in demand if they were published in an actual comic book). That seems to be changing, as even his unpublished collages (such as “Goddesses” shown on page 52 of this issue) are fetching higher prices—sometimes more than the cost of pages from some of his less popular comics series. In that spirit, we present the following checklist of Kirby’s published collage work, in chronological order of the date of publication. 49 TM & ©2012 Jack Kirby Estate. TM & ©2012 Jack Kirby Estate.
Gallery 2 ome were discarded because of a shortened page count, and S Jack needed to lose a page. Other times he just miscounted. Some are concept drawings to sell the idea, never intended for the public. Either way, these are a fascinating glimpse into Kirby’s mind and working process in the early-to-mid 1970s. UNUSED At DC 56 The unseen and unused pages from Kirby’s 1971-75 tenure at DC Comics. Below: OMAC presentation piece, circa 1973. Art from the Jack Kirby Museum’s Original Art Digital Archive (www.kirbymuseum.org). Page 57: Demon #2 rejected page, 1972. Page 58-59: Demon #1 unused pages, 1972. Page 60: Unused Mister Miracle #7 cover, 1972. Page 61: Jettisoned Mister Miracle #12 page, 1973. Page 62: Manhunter concept drawings, circa 1974. Scan courtesy Jeremy Kirby. Page 63: Page from the never-published story “The Maid” drawn for True Divorce Cases #1, 1971. TM & ©2012 DC Comics.
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