Remembering Jack Kirby

Remembering the King, Jack Kirby, on his birthday (August 28, 1917 - February 6, 1994) with a couple of his Captain America covers, with Cap reflecting on his life in the 1940s and the 1960s.  (Issues #107 and #112 from November, 1968 and April, 1969). 

Kirby Tales To Astonish

Here, a couple of Jack Kirby covers from Tales To Astonish (#48 and #53, from October 1963 and March 1964), where in Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Hank Pym) and the Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) face the Porcupine (Alex Gentry).

Remembering Artist Jim Aparo

Remembering artist Jim Aparo on his birthday (August 24, 1932 - July 19, 2005) with the Masters of Disaster!

Foes for Batman and the Outsiders (here from issues #9 and #10, April and May, 1984), the best of the (many) villain groups Aparo and Mike W. Barr did to face Batman and his group of super heroes.

The team was New Wave (Becky Jones, leader with water powers), her sister Windfall (Wendy Jones, with air powers), Shakedown (who had Earth powers), Coldsnap (Darryl, with cold powers) and his wife, Heatstroke (with flame powers).

Kirby Strange Tales

A couple of fatalistic covers by Jack Kirby for Strange Tales, #96 from May, 1962, with a man dreaming of a doom....to #97 from June, 1962, with doom coming to the whole planet!

Celebrating Artist Alex Saviuk

Celebrating the birthday of artist Alex Saviuk (August 17, 1952) with a couple of his covers to Web Of Spider-Man (#47 and #48, February and March, 1989), where Spider-Man faces Hobgoblin and Demogoblin.

Remembering Artist Jim Mooney

Remembering artist Jim Mooney on his birthday (August 13, 1919 - March 30, 2008) with a couple of covers with punch, as Robin delivers the haymaker in Star Spangled Comics #80 (May, 1948) and gets one in Star Spangled Comics #82 (July, 1948).

Kirby Tales Of Suspense

Alien menaces were all over the pre-hero Marvel Universe, as the hapless humans of Earth had to deal with Zarkorr from Tales of Suspense #35 (November, 1962) and Haag (name misspelled on the cover as Hagg) from Tales of Suspense #37 (January, 1963) in these two covers by Jack Kirby.