Sometimes We Need a Little Jack Kirby

Kirby, Steranko, Pope and More: My eBay Action

As part of my Great Comic Book Reorganization efforts, I'm selling some comics on eBay!

You want some classic Jack Kirby Silver Age action? You can get it.

Jim Steranko? Yup.

Paul Pope? Absolutely.

Jerry Ordway and Todd McFarlane? Um, yes, but this list gets less impressive as it goes along, doesn't it. Yes!

Jim Aparo's pretty great, though, right? Jim? Aparo? "Batman and the Outsiders? No? YES!

Anyway, I offer a link to my aBay auctions because I want to sell this stuff to people I love and admire. Bid away, my friends, and if you're a Geniusboy Firemelon regular and you end up winning any of these auctions, let me know, and I'll throw in some other free comics as a bonus!

Jack Kirby's The Losers Review

Recently reviewed by me at CBR: Jack Kirby's The Losers, about which I write the following sentences: "A Robert Kanigher creation from a 1970 issue of 'Our Fighting Forces' (well, the characters had appeared in various war comics over the years, but they didn't star in their own series until then), the Losers were a special forces team that served all around the world. Like some kind of WWII version of the Village People, they had representatives from each of the branches of the armed forces, and their bad luck always put their fat in the fire. Or so the internet tells me. If I had to go by the contents of 'Jack Kirby's The Losers' alone, then I would just think this series was about four generic soldiers and their insane wartime adventures. But because it's Bronze Age Jack Kirby, the insanity is at a glorious peak."

Read the entire review HERE.

Eternals #1 Review

Recently reviewed by me at CBR: Eternals #1, about which I write the following sentences: "If you read Gaiman's series (and if you didn't, there's that 300-word introduction on page one!), you know that every issue was a mixture of unease and strangeness, as various humans found themselves remembering that they weren't so much humans as immortal heroes and villains birthed by alien space-gods. You know, that old chestnut. It continues here, in issue #1."

Eternals #1 hits the stands today. Should you buy it?

Read the entire review HERE.

Jack Kirby's O.M.A.C.: One Man Army Corps Review

Recently reviewed by me at CBR: Jack Kirby's O.M.A.C.: One Man Army Corps, about which I write the following sentences: "With 'The Demon,' and 'Mister Miracle' at an end, and the success of his post-apocalyptic 'Kamandi' series, Kirby was nudged toward another futuristic concept. He'd had an idea for a 'Captain America in the future' comic at Marvel a few years earlier, but he decided against it. So take one part future-Cap, one part Kamandi, 98 parts Kirby genius, and mix them in a super-space blender, and -- presto! -- 'O.M.A.C.: One Man Army Corps.'"

Read the entire review HERE.