#Jack Kirby The Epic Life Of The King Of Comics

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Out this week: I Am Stan/Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics (Ten Speed Press, $22.99 each):

Tom Scioli, whose Jack Kirby biography came out a few years ago, returns with not only a new printing of that volume, but also a companion bio on Stan Lee.

See what other comics and graphic novels will arrive in stores this week.

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I get mentally exhausted whenever I'm forced to think of Stan Lee for any amount of time so I was really dreading reading the chapter of Ditko Shrugged that concerned the creation of Spider-Man but I ended up being pleasantly surprised that author David Curie ended up debunking many of Lee's claims and arrived to the conclusion that Lee never gave Kirby or Ditko a "brief synopsis" to work from. History, for better and for worse, seems to look like it will be kind to Steve Ditko, we've come a long way since Blake Bell's otherwise impressive work Strange and Stranger: The Worlds of Steve Ditko, that mentioned that Lee *did* give Ditko a plot synopsis to work from without any accompanying evidence beyond "Lee and Marvel's lawyers said that happened."

Some brief notes however;

Tom Scioli's Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of The King of Comics properly states that Kirby was the person that introduced the concept of Spider-Man (or, Spiderman, sans hyphen), with the art in the third panel being Night Stalker, though I've not seen any Night Stalker art by Kirby where the character had the web gun. Scioli's work crams in an amazing amount of detail but the fact that Ditko was assigned to start Spider-Man over from scratch after noticing that Kirby's version resembled The Fly too much is completely glossed over for space reasons I assume, keeping in mind that Kirby was so busy in the 1960's that the addressing of Spider-Man's creation has to share the page with that of Iron Man and The X-Men. Curie mentions this specifically but doesn't draw any specific conclusions as to who came up with the "idea" of Spider-Man, likely due to the fact that it is a rabbit hole and for all intent and purpose doesn't really matter in the context that the character as published is a co-creation of Ditko and Lee alone.

Both books however present the impetus for Spider-Man's creation as originating from a source other than Kirby, Scioli mentions that Martin Goodman wanted to continue expanding the superhero line and Currie more or less credits Lee with at least coming up with the name "Spiderman" if nothing else. The truth as it where seems to be an ongoing process of building up (or exposing) after decades of falsehoods.

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Excerpt from Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics by Tom Scioli

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Civil War and More

What show got Brian started with comics? What did Brian beg his mother to do when he was 4 years old? What happens in the Civil War comics? What are the issues with adapting Civil War to TV and film? What happened in Spider-Man comics during Civil War? Which comic book universe would Brian pick if he had to pick one, but who is his favorite character? How good is Gotham Central? What happened when nazis attacked Jack Kirby? What autobiographical comic did Paul Dini write? (See also this CBR article by Brian.) Is Batman Returns a Christmas movie? What was the birth of the MCU? Which is better, Infinity War or Endgame? What do we think about Martin Scorsese's statements about the MCU not being cinema? What is Frank Miller's deal? Were Batman comics always a little bit dark? 

Reading list: Civil War (free on Kindle Unlimited) The Amazing Spider-Man: Civil War (free on Kindle Unlimited) Civil War: Wolverine Gotham Central (free on Comixology Unlimited) Friend of the Devil (Brubaker) Greg Rucka's Batman Batman: The Black Mirror (free on Kindle Unlimited) Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics Dark Knight: A True Batman Story The Riddler: Year One by Paul Dano Truth: Red White and Black Secret Invasion (free on Comixology Unlimited) The Death of Superman The Dark Knight Returns Batman: A Death in the Family Under the Red Hood (free with Kindle Unlimited) The Batman Chronicles

Watch list: Batman TAS X-Men TAS Captain America: Civil War Batman Returns Marvel's The Avengers Iron Man Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Endgame WandaVision Hawkeye Loki The Falcon and The Winter Soldier

Recorded 2-10-24 via Zencastr

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Episode 796: Tom Scioli on I AM STAN LEE and STAR WARRIORS

Today's show brings another returning guest: a cartoonist so well-known for being in tune with the vibe of Jack Kirby in his own work that when he published his Kirby biography Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics in 2020, there's no doubt a large portion of the readership wondered what had taken him so long.

The delay was most likely due to the fact he was busy making a name for himself with such projects in the comics mainstream and independent arenas as The Myth of 8-Opus, G0dland, Transformers vs GI Joe, American Barbarian, Go-Bots, and many more. He also takes the time to not only be the fifth-Beatle-esque third Cartoonist Kayfaber on that popular YouTube channel, but co-host his own Total Recall Show with Matt Zeoli. But today, Tom Scioli is here to talk with Greg about a new collaboration between himself and The King (separated by 80-ish years or so) as well as his new biography on the other half of the Kirby-Lee partnership: I am Stan: The Graphic Biography of the Legendary Stan Lee.

Robots From Tomorrow is a twice-monthly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth’s surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also follow Mike and Greg on Twitter. Stay safe and enjoy your funny books.

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Underrated: Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics by Tom Scioli

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Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of The King of Comics (2020) Tom Scioli (208 pages)

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Jack Kirby : The Epic Life Of The King Of Comics (2020)

Cover + Preview Pages

Script And Art by Tom Scioli

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young Jack Kirby with Roz Goldstein by Tom Scioli

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“One Of A Kind”

Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics (May 2020)

Tom Scioli

Ten Speed Press

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[frankendykes-monster]

Finally picked up Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of The King of Comics, the new biography by Tom Scioli. This panel made me chuckle.

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Have you read Jack Kirby: The Epic Life Of The King Of Comics by Tom Scioli?

Haven't gotten around to it, but probably someday.

#Tom Scioli #Kirby #Opinion

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Show notes 8/10/20

Tom Scioli, the writer and artist of Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics, drops by the show this week to talk about research, doing nonfiction comics, the way he chose to draw Kirby, his favorite Transformer, Stan Lee's point of view, the Fantastic Four and a whole lot more! Plus, Chris and Matt take some of your listener questions!

The rundown:

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Chris’ check and rec: Birthday, Headspace

Matt’s check and rec: Computer problems, Bonanas for Bonanza

Music used: Caar Lemar, “Swing it Jack”

Comics reviewed:

Legends of the Dark Knights #1

Batman #96

Giant Size X-Men: Fantomex

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#JackedKirby - You remember that time the FF protected the Moon Landing??? 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔 Being that we just passed the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 manned moon landing (July 16th 1969) I thought it would be cool to look back at the time Stan and Jack portrayed the Marvel version of that event... and how the First Family helped NASA accomplish the epic task!!! 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌒🌑🌓🌔 Fantastic Four #Issue98 came out in May of 1970 and is near the tail end of “The Run”, Jack and Stan’s epic 102 Issue journey (plus annuals!) together on the FF. The issue features Reed getting a cryptic transmission from space about an impeding threat... and it happens to coincide with the upcoming moon mission!!!! This is an obvious “ripper from the headlines” story and the cover (pic 1) makes sure to highlight it in the story title “Doomsday on the Moon!!!” 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌒🌑🌓🌔 Kree Sentry #459 wants the Apollo mission to fail so he plan on sabotaging it... but not if the FF can stop it!!! Ben, Reed And Johnny (sans Sue) spring into action after drawing conclusions that Reed’s message is tied to the upcoming space mission... 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌒🌓🌔 I also really love the use of actual newspaper headlines in the story to highlight a real life event taking place in the 616 universe... Pics 2/3/4 all show the characters reading about the Apollo Mission and utilizing this info to further the story. Another cool twist is that the heroes arrive home just in time to see Neil Armstrong’s epic first steps on the moon and hear his “one small step for man... one giant leap for mankind” declaration with Jack recreated to close out the issue (pics 5/6). Done perfectly... historically accurate and wonderfully rendered by The King!!! 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌘🌒🌓🌔 #JackKirby #Kirby #KingKirby #FF #FantasticFour #Kree #MoonLanding #NeilArmstrong #BuzzAldrin #Marvel #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #70sComics #ComicsOfThe70s #IGcomics #ComicsOfIG #50thanniversary #MoonLanding https://www.instagram.com/p/B0OjFq-Bf1k/?igshid=1i6jzy5gwpdr1

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