Mighty Kona Madness

I think they're finally going to be sending someone out to the cave this week to deal with net connections.
We can hope.  Meanwhile, back in cave man country...

We met Kona - Monarch Of Monster Isle in a previous post. As noted, Kona faced more than dinosaurs. It was, after all, Monster Isle - a place so strange that spiders grow large enough to trap tyrannosaurs...

...and cats...
Live in fear of the cats...

One could regularly expect titanic clashes (illustrated by Sam Glanzman) in Kona's world...

Let us not forget mutated alien races...

At least the dai kaiju are useful for getting off the island...

Kona was a rather insanely odd caveman book, as you can see.
Despite that, it didn't hold the #1 place for caveman comics in my heart...

page art by Sam Glanzman from Kona #s 2-10 (1962-1964)

Dr. Law, Fantasy Hero

Let's continue looking at some of the old fanzine comics. Today we've got 1964's Dr. Law from the 4th and final issue of Bill Dubay's short lived Fantasy Hero zine. Dubay, of course, went on to be a major presence at Warren as a writer, artist and editor on their big three titles - Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella.  Not to mention scripter of the odd little Spirit/Vampirella cross-over and game maker for Warren, too.
Back in '64 he was one of the new kids taking advantage of access to mimeographic tech to produce his own fanzine while learning the ropes and building his skills -

Here's the cover to that issue of Fantasy Hero -

A very cool feature in that issue was a visit to the DC comics offices, with creator portraits by Duby:

Extra Bonus!
Almost a decade later, after Bill turned pro and started working at Warren, he provided a couple of pages to the New York Comic Art Convention program books for 1972 and 1973 offering a little perspective on his new situation -

Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 02

This week's Gil Elvgren calendar painting is Phone-a-Vision from 1964 -

Sunday Afternoon WTFunnies? (King Kirby 092)

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)

Saturday Solutions 006 (King Kirby 090)

You didn't come here looking for the answers to yesterdays' King Kirby 100 Crossword Challenge, did you? I said i was going to give you extra time to work on that one.

So, let's try to pierce the Veil and turn to The King for some other solutions, shall we?

Mr. Kirby - um....
How does one see so far, as You did?

Okay. That's not quite what i meant.
Your vision seemed so wide ranging - how do we perceive the worlds around us with the clarity You demonstrated?

All right. Obviously, this isn't the right line of inquiry. Let's take this in a different direction -
How can one live beyond death, as You have done?

Well, that's more interesting. Now You've got me thinking about some of Your other creations. After hearing this tale, i wonder what Captain America would have been like if it was a western, like BullsEye...

Well, that's pretty cool - An American Icon x 2. Makes me wonder what he would have been like if Cap had been around earlier - at the formation of the USA?

Ha! The Red Skull makes it glorious!
I don't think the Veil will stay parted much longer... One last answer -
How did Thor earn the right to weild Mjolnir? How did he prove he was worthy? Did he just walk up and grab the hammer, or were there some sort of trials?

all page art by Jack Kirby & co. from Classics Illustrated Special #165a (1961), BullsEye #6 (1955), Marvel Treasury Special #1 (1976), and Journey Into Mystery #100 (1964)