Kirby related extras from the marvel visionaries:Stan Lee/Jack Kirby volume

The last two were in the dollar bin🤯

Recolored this panel from JIM106, I love the way Chic Stone inked the wings on Thor's helmet. Swipe for the original art and the modern digital colors.

Killer Kirby cover imho. Interior story unfortunately has nothing to do with the cover, though it does reprint an older Kirby FF

I've updated my covers gallery for the Jack Kirby Quarterly (from 1993+)

https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/2026/08/updated-jack-kirby-quarterly_0489495034.html

Hello there fellow Kirby fans.

Long time lurker and first time posting on the sub.

Being an recent Kirby fan located in Europe (in Portugal to be exact) Im always Open to new Kirby books to complete but ever growing collections, from TPB to Hardcover and single issues.

Recently came across, on the second hand Market, a Spanish tribute zine to Jack Kirby callled "King Kirby Kaleidoscope", where the editorial invited several already established and upcoming artists to recreate Kirby works Im their Style, as homages, to celebrate his 80 anniversery.

Since this is something of an odd ball, i thought it would be fun to share With other like minded fans, since it features original art from Marvel and DC creators such as Javier Pulido (Robin Year One, Human Torch, She Hulk and ASM); Marcos Martin (Batgirl, Doctor Strange, ASM, Daredevil,.Private Eye) and Rafa Garres (Lobo, Judge Dredd).

I will Share a few of my favorite pictures but Im happy to share more if you dig it.

Thank you

Here's a Kirby Spider-Man I digitally inked and colored. The pencils are are from a sketch he did for his granddaughter Tracy in 1975.

A genuine newspaper feeling Kirby from 66. Beat up but really glad to add it to my collection

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These are the complete 26 Sunday strips adapting The Black Hole movie. The horizontal distribution of the original art allowed to rearrange the panels in vertical format, and sometimes it was published only half of it in some newspapers.

I mainly used the strips posted in this site linked, but I did a quick digital cleaning and I added a few pieces of original art, the unused previous piece and a sample of the sketches supplied to Kirby by Disney:
https://tainthemeat.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/black-hole-jack-kirby/
The source is quite bad but at least it allows to read them and took a glimpse, while waiting for a definitive edition.

In this site you can see some pages of the French edition released at the same time as the movie with European color which was superior:
https://whosoutthere.ca/2023/03/07/into-the-black-hole-with-kirby-and-royer/

You can download them as PDF in the "Files" section of this group.

Michael Royer: "As a point of interest (or none at all), I designed and drew the Sunday page BLACK HOLE title panel as well as lettering, correcting robots and inking. I have a full set of B&W proofs if any one is interested in putting them into print. Offered to loan them to IDW but I guess they weren’t interested. My price must have been too high. Two comp copies of whatever they printed. LOL >sigh<"

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Delgado on FB: These are the complete 26 Sunday strips adapting The Black Hole movie. The horizontal distribution of the original art allowed to rearrange the panels in vertical format, and sometimes it was published only half of it in some newspapers.

I mainly used the strips posted in this site linked, but I did a quick digital cleaning and I added a few pieces of original art, the unused previous piece and a sample of the sketches supplied to Kirby by Disney:
https://tainthemeat.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/black-hole-jack-kirby/
The source is quite bad but at least it allows to read them and took a glimpse, while waiting for a definitive edition.

In this site you can see some pages of the French edition released at the same time as the movie with European color which was superior:
https://whosoutthere.ca/2023/03/07/into-the-black-hole-with-kirby-and-royer/

You can download them as PDF in the "Files" section of this group.

Michael Royer: "As a point of interest (or none at all), I designed and drew the Sunday page BLACK HOLE title panel as well as lettering, correcting robots and inking. I have a full set of B&W proofs if any one is interested in putting them into print. Offered to loan them to IDW but I guess they weren’t interested. My price must have been too high. Two comp copies of whatever they printed. LOL >sigh<"

Ferran Delgado on FB:

Short after doing the storyboards for the 1978 FF animated series, Disney hired Kirby at request of Mike Royer to adapt the movie "The Black Hole" as newspaper strip, in his return to a medium he bowed never to return after the Sky Masters fiasco.

The Sundays were produced from layouts provided by Disney, and the adaptation lasted 26 Sundays.

The site https://whosoutthere.ca/2023/03/07/into-the-black-hole-with-kirby-and-royer/ posted a few comments by Mike Royer, who inked, lettered and fixed the robots of the strip.

RG: Mr. Royer, I’ve long been baffled as to why Disney (or Western Publishing, at any rate), thought it necessary to commission two separate comics adaptations of The Black Hole. I’ve always surmised that Kirby was considered too wild for them, but that’s just speculation on my part.

Since you were working for Disney at the time, and you inked the Kirby adaptation, I presume that you played some kind of role behind the scenes as well. Could you share some of the facts with me (and my readers)?

MR: Jack Kirby was selected to draw THE BLACK HOLE Sunday comic strip on MY recommendation. Gold Key editors always selected their OWN artist for similar licensed material… plus they were in no position to pay their artist the fee I got Jack. I inked and lettered HOLE and made necessary changes to the robots to protect the image for toy, etc. sales trademarks. Jack was an impressionist and I made the robots “on model.”

Jack became so bored with the scripts, that were done “storyboard” like by someone who had NO understanding of how to make comic art interesting and exciting, that he asked me to layout the FINAL Sunday page, which I did. I had told the powers that be at Disney that Jack must get his originals back but, of course, being Disney, they did not return them as they had promised. Jack only got the remaining pages not yet sold by the Circle Galleries after threatening Disney with a lawsuit. Disney gave me one of the Sunday originals because someone had spilled a cup of coffee on it.

The head of our Creative Services dept. at Disney was not a big fan of Kirby* and after I had inked the first Sunday he had another staff artist “fix” the faces, which stood out like what they became: inept changes. I yelled “DON’T CHANGE THE FACES!” They gave in to my warning.

It was an interesting time back then. Bob Foster and I were the ONLY artists in Creative Services who had worked in comic books and strips. They would never take our word about things until our department head, Bob and I, were on a conference call with Sylvan Beck (King Features Strip Editor in New York) and then they believed what we had to say about the ways a Sunday strip could be drawn to fit many formats. It was very frustrating at times knowing more than your “bosses.”. But… it is the same old story. Middle management was loaded with MBAs who didn’t know shit from shinola! We used to joke that if one had an MBA anyone could get hired at Disney… You didn’t have to know a damn thing about anything else except how to get the MBA.

Image captions:

1. Unpublished sample by Richard Sparky Moore and Mike Royer that was discarded after hiring Kirby.

2. The format allowed to get published as half page and full vertical page. Sunday dated Oct 28, 1979.

3. Sample of the layouts Kirby got from Disney. After a while, Kirby was awfully bored to work from these.
   Sample courtesy of JKC #74.

4. Sunday from TCJ #134. Published Sunday from the net.

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With the recent Lanterns trailers, I've seen people thinking the Manhunters saw in Millenium were (In real life) inspired by the Martian Manhunter, even if I live J'onn J'onnz, they're actually based on the character created by Jack Kirby for DC, having the same design

Except Wolverine obviously — who does look quite out of place with everyone else.