Back in 1946 & '47, Jack Kirby and his partner in creation, Joe Simon, did a few strips for Real Fact Comics. Just a couple 2-pagers, and a couple 4-pagers. The first of the 4-page strips is a fairly straightforward "Real Facts" kind of comic, offering a little lesson in American History:
(SPOILER: He was Both)
The 2-pagers, however, were less Real Fact and more... well, they say it right there at the top - Just Imagine-
Those stories came from the first 2 issues of Real Fact Comics, and were all reprinted during Kirby's time at DC in the 70s. (Pirate Or Patriot was reprinted in Mr. Miracle #4 if you're dying to read it) Jack returned without Joe in issue #9 to pencil another Real Fact based story which, to my knowledge, has never been reprinted. (My knowledge ends about the end of the last century)
So here's Backseat Driver from Real Fact Comics #9 (1946):
That's another Kirby biography of a woman with whom i was quite unfamiliar. This story came out about the same time as 48 Famous Americans, too. After all those one page bios, having four pages to cover this short period of McKay's life must have seemed quite leisurely to Jack.
pages from Real Facts Comics drawn by Jack Kirby & Joe Simon (1946) and Jack Kirby & ??? (1947)
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