02 August 2017

Gods of the King (King Kirby 008)


Back around 1972 this ad manifested from the higher planes:


This was just as Jack Kirby had left Marvel and was ramping up the start of the New Gods over at DC. To us it looked like a farewell to his old work, giving us updated figures from the Norse myths with just a little edge of the Space gods to come. We were wrong. It wasn't a farewell - they were actually paintings he had done years earlier, while actively working on the Thor comic.

Heimdall






Honir





Baldur





Sigurd



And all four plates, suitable for framing at almost 12"x18" size for only $2.95 (+.30 postage)
Can you even buy a comic for that money any more?

Jack Kirby's GODS by Jack Kirby, of course (1972)

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