In an earlier edition of Sunday Morning Funnies during the King Kirby 100 we featured a story entitled Spider-Man Tickles The Torch!
Let's look at another related story-
One might ask just how this is related to the previous story, beyond both having Jack Kirby riding pencils.
We've seen how gifted Kirby was with his comic stylings when called upon, and yet there's absolutely no sign of it in either story. The same holds true for Wally Wood's tone in the inks. There's a very simple reason for that. In both cases, Jack wasn't drawing comedy.
In the tradition of Fractured Flickers, the folks at Crazy magazine took old stories and "re-dubbed" them with new dialogue tracks. Of course, "the folks at Crazy magazine" was Marvel Comics, so they had a vault of old tales to use.
Here's the original version of the story above, from Journey Into Mystery #51-
And here's the original version of Spider-Man Tickles The Torch! Kirby & Steve Ditko from Amazing Spider-Man #8:
I like to think that Jack actually got paid for the re-use of his work, and that - unlike some other times - approved of the changes.
But somehow i doubt it.
pages from Journey Into Mystery #51 (1955) and Crazy #s 66 & 82 (1980, 1982)
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