Celebrating Artist Walt Simonson

Celebrating the birthday of artist Walt Simonson (September 2, 1946) with a batch of his covers featuring the New Gods (from #12 to #15 of the series)...

...before the series became Jack Kirby's Fourth World (and before he took over the series with a focus on Orion after that).

New Gods #12 and #13 (November and December, 1996)

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New Gods #14 and #15 (January and February, 1997)

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Sorcery In Warlord

The land of Skartaris was a dangerous one...a land of ancient Atlantean technology, but also one of magic.  

Travis Morgan, the Warlord, fought these menaces with a sword and a gun (under covers by Mike Grell), but it took his daughter, Jennifer, who found a way into this land (in Warlord #38, October, 1980)...but later returned (Warlord #53, January, 1982), and learned sorcery from Deimos' assistant, Ashiya, to become an ally versed in magic.

Kirby Deadman

Kirby had some strange ideas when he worked for DC in the 1970s, and fewer were odder than his hippie inspired group of the Forever People....until, by editorial edict, he added Deadman (Boston Brand) to the mix (reintroducing the idea of Deadman hunting for his killer, after he had found him in Strange Adventures).  Deadman even got a robot body to inhabit in Forever People #9 and #10 (June-July and August-September, 1972).

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!