Departing Ditko Days

We've got just enough room left in the week for one more visit with Steve Ditko. Let's start where we left off, with some stories from the mid-50s...

This is The Voice Of ODD!, so let us take a hard turn into Odd territory for some completely different Ditko -

He even brought us the cover to that issue...

...and it was hardly his only trip into weird comedy...

This one was rarely seen, originally slated for Plop! and published in the Amazing World Of DC Comics, we get Steve Ditko working with Steve Skeates and Wally Wood -

And now we seem to have looped back around to where we started...

...so i guess it's time to move along...

page art by Steve Ditko (and Wally Wood) from Spellbound #29, Mystery Tales #s 40, 45, & 47, From Here To Insanity #s 10 & 1 (v.3), Amazing World Of DC Comics #13, and Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (1955, 1956, 1964, 1975)

Son Of Sunday Morning Funnies (King Kirby 091)

Sunday Morning Funnies. You know how this works by now, right? Them toony thangs.

So let's get right to it with an Odd Jack Kirby drawn strip from Cracked magazine:

Okay. That was silly. But not as silly as this-

For today's main feature, we turn once again to Not Brand Echh. Back in the days when Johnny Storm was dating Crystal of the Inhumans, time came when...

Gee.... think Johnny Storm will show up on the Inhumans tv show? Yeah, sure.

Moving right along... 
To wrap things up this morning, here's a 2-pager intended for the never published 2nd issue of In The Days Of The Mob. It looks like Jack was joining (replacing?) Sergio Aragones in the comedy department for that next issue...

Now go enjoy your day with a smile.

all page art by Jack Kirby from Cracked #14 (1960), From Here To Insanity #11 (1955), Not Brand Echh #6 (1968) and Amazing World Of DC Comics #10 (1976)

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)