Number 2385: “This will shake the sauerkraut out o.Number 2388: Sheriff Sal, one helluva gal.Number 2389: Martan the Marvel Man: beware of grav.Number 2390: Dagar Desert Hawk: Big Sahib, Little.Number 2391: The cop and the kid and the Blonde Ph.Number 2392: Master Key’s penetrating ray.Number 2393: “You used to be so amused at Napoleon.Pappy’s Favorites Number 10: It’s a Riot!.In most tellings, Krypton exploded simply as a matter of bad geophysical luck. The tales of the great flood may have in part derived from retellings of stories of often rapid rises in sea levels as the most recent ice age came to an end.īut it was somewhat cheesy to have a character other than the main character presume, at the end of this story, that the destruction of the hypothesized planet were because of the monstrosity of its inhabitants. As it happens, giants figure into myths found around the world of a era before a great flood. Or perhaps the writer had the idea for the beginning of a story but couldn't think of where to go with it.Ī further development of this story could draw profitably upon mythology. Perhaps the writer imagined later picking-up the threads and continuing. Here, the end result has very little apparent polish it is almost like pure Kirby. Metal Sign - Invaders from Mars (1953) - 7x10 inch - Vintage Look. In the case of another story, “Island in the Sky”, it really looked to me as if Williamson had added little-or-no polish where Kirby had expected it of the inker. Arrives by Wed, Jul 20 Buy Metal Sign - Fiend Without a Face (1958) 1 - 7x10 inch. I've wondered about Williamson's inking of Kirby's pencils. Their drawing styles may have been different, but in this way they complemented each other.įace front, true Martian face believers and even non-believers! From Race For the Moon #2 (1958). It is drawn using the Kirby dynamics (action, and science fiction devices that he did so well) and inked by Al Williamson. The picture on which all of this was centred turned out to have been first uploaded on 23 February 2010 by the dog’s owner, Japanese nursery school teacher Atsuko Sato, who had started a blog. A Mars explorer goes in through an eyehole and is given a lifelike vision of the former occupants of Mars. It’s the way our brains are wired.)īut, I am here to talk about Kirby’s big Martian face. Random objects can contain faces, but by coincidence. (Note: I am a skeptic by nature, and I also know about pattern recognition. “The Face on Mars” by Kirby is what I immediately thought of when I saw the NASA photo of a face on Mars. The stories showed how Kirby, later famous for his epics stretching over many issues of comic books, could also craft a story of a few pages. Though theres no writing credit, the story is unquestionably Kirbys- its practically a catalog of his obsessions, themes that hed revisit over and. And thats a shame, its a fascinating story.
A lot of people know about Jack Kirbys 1958 'Face on Mars' story by now, but fewer have read it. Especially issues numbers 2 and 3, illustrated, and presumably written, by Jack Kirby, perhaps with his partner, Joe Simon. Mindbomb: John Carter, PKD and 'The Face on Mars'. Race For the Moon, a scant three issues from Harvey Comics, is something beloved by me as re lics of my pre-teen years.
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