11 August 2017

Traveling Full Circle (King Kirby 043)


If you're from the future and reading this, odds are the posts are in chronologically reverse order for you. So you Futurites might not remember that we're wondering from whence came this guy:



Our Champion of those many mentally disturbed readers with a flying saucer complex comes from Charlton Comc's 1955 comedy title, From Here To Insanity. I only have a couple issues, but they seem to feature a different artist for each, which is kind of a cool approach to take. My other issue features Basil Wolverton. (Oddly enough, autocorrect wants to make his name Wolverhampton. That's more common?) But the issue pictured at right is #11.
 In this issue, Jack Kirby's artwork is the star feature.
Aside from the cover, there's 23 pages of Kirby art, including a 6 page parody of the Disney movie version of 20.000 Leagues Under The Sea of which we're only going to run the first page here.Sadly,  Jack isn't working from the best script on this one.


There's also a Rex Morgan, M.D. parody...


...a DIY feature...


...a bit of Foreign Intrigue...


...a mock newspaper...


...some general tomfoolery...



...and an odd little two-pager that's my favorite bit from the book:


Sing it, Brother!

all page art by Jack Kirby for From Here To Insanity (1955)

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