Ran across this fascinating bit at Bleeding Cool:
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| Despite the fact that Jack Kirby was an incredibly prolific artist with a career that spanned some 50 years, it’s not every day that I see a picture of a page of Kirby artwork that I haven’t seen before. So I was pretty intrigued to find this rather gorgeous piece of Space Busters concept art in my inbox this week, which comes from the estate of inker Marvin Stein. Stein, a Simon & Kirby Studios artist and inker who worked on titles ranging from Black Magic to Young Romance, died last year at the age of 85. His estate is putting the piece up for sale in a ComicLink auction that begins November 4. |
As longtime GC readers know, I’m a huge Kirby fan and was excited to see this.
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| The creation of Kirby and writer Dave Wood, Space Busters was a newspaper strip concept developed during the science fiction boom in pulps, comics, books, and films of the mid-1950s. While they were unable to sell that strip to newspapers, public interest in space exploration surged in 1957 after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, and Kirby, Dave Wood and Dave’s brother Dick ultimately sold an astronaut adventure called Sky Masters of the Space Force to a newspaper syndicate in 1958 after a syndicate manager was shown this Space Busters concept art. |
Bleeding Cool has more of the art on display. Definitely worth checking out.
New Kirby art unearthed! was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon