Frankenstein's Treasure (King Kirby 064)

It may or may not be readily apparent, but the King Kirby 100 is not a project that was prepared ahead of time. I gathered together tons of Jack Kirby material, set up access with some comic libraries, and lined up all the resources at my disposal. That kept me fairly busy until the last few days of July. Then the reading began... 
I'm don't know how many pages of Jack Kirby's comics are piled for reading, but i've come to realize it's likely measured in the tens of thousands. Plus books, magazines & archives (TwoMorrows is a Kirby post of its own), fanzines...  decades worth of fanboy gathering.
It's only when going back and reading after a gap of decades that you begin to realize just how much you've forgotten. I keep swearing that some comics are completely new to me, that i must have somehow tucked it away unread until now. But there's no way that happened with so many books, and even big titles like the Fantastic Four have complete memory gaps. While in some ways annoying that the once encyclopedic memory systems have lost so much data, it's also a huge joy finding so much Kirby that's brand new to me again. Not to mention things that are actually new from the library accesses and such. I'm constantly being surprised and delighted.
Sometimes, though, i wish things would pop up to surprise just a couple days earlier. You may recall that in Son Of Mobster Monday, i found Jack Kirby showing up to transcribe "Red Hot" Blaze's tale into comic format in Treasure Comics #10. It was basically a six page advertisement for Headline Comics where Simon & Kirby regularly created Blaze's stories. This morning as while reading through the piles, this turned up:

WTF? Why is this in my Kirby pile? Did he do some deranged comedy now completely forgotten? Some dark parody?
Nope - it's another 6 page ad for Headline Comics, with Jack Kirby drawing Jack Kirby again while "Red Hot" relates the details for him to draw the story. Meta wasn't a word back then. For reference on him, and just because we haven't seen her yet, here's a photo of Jack & Roz a few years before this tale:

Now here's "Red Hot"'s TRUE Crime Never Pays story:

I'm left to wonder... Are there more?
You can be sure i'll be hunting as i dig, and i'll be sure to let you know.

Another wonder... Has anyone compiled a compendium of appearances of Jack Kirby in comics? With a sub-listing of appearances of Jack Kirby drawn by Jack Kirby, preferably.
Hmm...

Justice Finds A Cop Killer drawn by Jack Kirby for Frankenstein Comics #7 (1947)

That's a Fact, Jack? (King Kirby 063)

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)

A Song Of Ice & Fire (King Kirby 062)

One of the early Marvel titles we haven't mentioned yet is Journey Into Mystery/The Mighty Thor. It was actually one of my favorites, right after Fantastic Four. I was a mythology buff, with a fondness for Norse & Egyptian ascendant over  the usual Greek/Roman tales. So it was pretty easy to hook me at the concept level, and then they started digging into the mythology, often in the back-up tales in Journey Into Mystery. Even when Jack Kirby wasn't drawing the lead tales in JIM, he was rocking through the old mythology in the back-up tales. Those tales let him cut loose from many typical restrictions in the other comics. Unbound by mortal architecture and mundane constraints, his imagination had more room to run free.

Now, let's blow the horn and play that song, eh? A song of Ice...

...and fire...

Later, after digging through the old myths, the series really took off when Thor turned to the cosmos and began to forge modern myths - one of which might look quite familiar to modern viewers:

Okay. Some of you may be feeling cheated at  this point. Here we've been talking about Thor, and there's been no sign of him. I can hear the grumbles from the acolytes. So, here - have a poster, a sketch, and a few covers -

Hopefully, that'll hold you until we return to the Thunderer.
(And return we will)

all art by Jack Kirby(& inkers), stories of Ice & Fire from Journey Into Mystery #s 98 & 99 (1963)

Still Rad, After All These Years (King Kirby 061)

Snell, over at Slay, Monstrobot of the Deep!, has a regular reminder that the Vision Is Radder Than You Think. And he's not wrong. In fact, i'll go one further and say that the Vision has been Radder than you think for Longer than you think. As evidence, i submit these Jack Kirby & (usually) Joe Simon splash pages from over 75 years ago for the courts' consideration:

If those don't convince you, how about when the Vision battled Satan himself?

Now that you are doubtlessly convinced in this matter, enjoy the radness of Simon & Kirby's Vision vs. Dinosaurs, depicted by Jack Kirby (inker unknown):

Boom. Boom. Out go the lights...

the vision by Jack Kirby & Joe Simon (mostly) from Marvel Mystery Comics 14-27 (1941)