August 31, 2013
FFF Results Post #349—Kirby! Kirby! Kirby!
On Friday,
CR readers were asked to "Name Your Five Favorite Specific Jack Kirby Comic Book Issues." This is how they responded.
Tom Spurgeon
1. Kamandi #10
2. Mister Miracle #16
3. Fantastic Four #55
4. Fantastic Four #53
5. Fantastic Four #25
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Evan Dorkin
1. Kamandi #14
2. Captain America #211
3. The Demon #5
4. Fantastic Four #51
5. Fantastic Four #26
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Andrew Mansell
1. New Gods #7
2. Jimmy Olsen #141
3. Tales of Asgard #1
4. Avengers #4
5. Fantastic Four #77
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Michael Buntag
1. New Gods #6
2. Journey Into Mystery #112
3. Journey Into Mystery #113
4. Thor #126
5. Mister Miracle #4
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Steven Stwalley
1 2001: A Space Odyssey #5
2 Kamandi #29
3 Fighting American #1 (1966)
4 DC First Issue Special #6: The Dingbats of Danger Street (1975)
5 Black Magic #1 (1973) (unfortunately, I've never read the comics the 70's Black Magic comics were reprinted from... the not-Kirby cover for this comic pales in comparison to the decidedly pre-code one he did for the same story on the original series Black Magic #30 from 1954)
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Buzz Dixon
1. Fantastic Four #48
2. Captain America Comics #1
3. Devil Dinosaur #1
4. Fantastic Four #51
5. Destroyer Duck #5 (This one deserves an explanation: My first comics gig was writing a two-page fight scene for this issue, a hand off from Steve Gerber to get my feet webbed [...er...wet] before taking the book over with issue 6. My first pro gig and it was illustrated by Jack Kirby! You can't start a career in comics better than that!)
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Chris Duffy
1. Mister Miracle #9
2. New Gods #8
3. Eternals Annual #1
4. Black Panther #1
5. Kamandi #29
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Marty Yohn
1. 2001: A Space Oddessy - Marvel Treasury Edition
2. New Gods #7
3. Fantastic Four #49
4. Fantastic Four #51
5. Fantastic Four #57
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Johnny Bacardi
1. Fantastic Four # 35
2. Fantastic Four # 56
3. Demon #7
4. Mister Miracle #7
5. Journey into Mystery #107
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Sean Kleefeld
1. Fantastic Four #5
2. Devil Dinosaur #1
3. Journey into Mystery #97
4. Fantastic Four Annual #5
5. 2001 #8
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James Moore
1. OMAC #1
2. Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #152
3. Fantastic Four #50
4. Fantastic Four #51
5. New Gods #6
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Andrew Mansell
1. New Gods #7
2. Jimmy Olsen #141
3. Tales of Asgard #1
4. Avengers #4
5. Fantastic Four #77 Shall Earth Endure? Yer damn Skippy it will!
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Chris Zepeda
1. Captain America #100
2. Kamandi #6
3. Fantastic Four Annual #6
4. Mr. Miracle #3
5. Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #141
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Tom Bondurant
1. Fantastic Four #50
2. Fantastic Four #89
3. Captain America #212
4. Forever People #4
5. New Gods #7
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Michael Ryan
* Black Magic #27. 'The Cat People' is the epilogue to producer Val Lewton's classic film of the same name.
* Bullseye #3. 'The Devil Bird' puts our western hero in 'The Valley of Gwangi'.
* Fantastic Four #40. It contains in my estimation Kirby's best single page - the heartbreaking transformation of Ben Grimm back into The Thing. It can't even be diminished by Colletta's inks.
* Fantastic Four #67. The coming of 'Him' is an underrated Sci-Fi epic in Kirby's deep repertoire of great stories, and puts Alicia front and center as a heroine.
* X-Men #10. Our mutant-heroes in 'The World That Time Forgot'; helped put me on my career path. One of the next dinosaurs I name will be named after Kirby.
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Michel Fiffe
1. Fantastic Four #73
2. Fantastic Four #8 (Marvel Tales reprint)
3. Avengers #3 (Marvel Super Heroes reprint)
4. Super Powers #1
5. O.M.A.C. #1
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Mike Palumbo
1. Fantastic Four #11
2. OMAC #1
3. Mister Miracle #6
4. 2001 - A Space Odyssey Treasury Edition
5. Tales to Astonish #13
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Mark Mayerson
* Star Spangled Comics #9
* Boy's Ranch #3 (for "Mother Delilah")
* Fantastic Four Annual #1
* New Gods #7
* Kamandi #29
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Steve Replogle
* New Gods #1 - "Orion Fights for Earth"
* The Demon #1 - "Unleash the One Who Waits"
* OMAC #1 - "The World That's Coming"
* Black Panther #1 - "King Solomon's Frog"
* Silver Star #1 - "Homo Geneticus"
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Nicholas Doyle
1. Kamandi #1
2. New Gods #1
3. Fantastic Four #1
4. Fantastic Four #51
5. Fantastic Four Annual #3
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Marc Arsenault
1. New Gods #6 'Glory Boat'
2. 2001 #5 'Norton of New York'
3. Showcase #6 Challengers of the Unknown
4. Tales To Astonish #40 ""The Day That Ant-Man Failed!""
5. The Eternals #10
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unless you were a first-time participant, for which I'm always super-delighted, I deleted responses that came with choices that weren't comic books
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