CBR: CCI: The Jack Kirby Tribute Panel

[CBR News]

Always one of the most fascinating panels at Comic-Con, Mark Evanier convened the annual Jack Kirby Panel last month with a host of comics greats sharing stories from the past and announcements about new collections to come.


Full article here.

[Leocomix]

It seems that everything that could be collected at DC has been. More volumes of Kamandi (there are already two, not one) for sure.
Demon and Losers are already forthcoming. The earlier stuff from the 40s and 50s isn't that popular but will probably sell.

DC could reprint Super Powers I and II

and a miscellaneous volume with Kobra, 70s Sandman, Manhunter, Atlas, Dingbats, Richard Dragon, In the Days of the Mob, Spirit World, and his Who's Who pages

[The Shadow]

Great article.

I remember when Image was just starting (and those couple of years before that with the assencion of McFarlane, Liefeld etc.) that liking Kirby made me "dated" and "uncool".

I've always been a Kirby fan (I prefer his Marvelk stuff to DC) and one day hope to own a page of original art! Hey, we all gotta have goals!

[Aaron King]

I'm realllllly hoping for Days of the Mob and Spirit World.

[Reptisaurus!]

It seems that everything that could be collected at DC has been. More volumes of Kamandi (there are already two, not one) for sure.
Demon and Losers are already forthcoming. The earlier stuff from the 40s and 50s isn't that popular but will probably sell.

DC could reprint Super Powers I and II

and a miscellaneous volume with Kobra, 70s Sandman, Manhunter, Atlas, Dingbats, Richard Dragon, In the Days of the Mob, Spirit World, and his Who's Who pages

There's a decent amount of Golden Age DC stuff that hasn't been collected as well.

And we NEED, N-E-E-D, another printing of the Boys Ranch collection from a few years back. That's one of my top three-or-four favorite Kirby projects ever.

Edit: Also: True Divorce Cases.

[benday-dot]

Newsboy Legion and Boy Commandos... your time is now... omnibus style!

[Red Oak Kid]

Does Harvey own Fighting American? Or Joe Simon.

[benday-dot]

Does Harvey own Fighting American? Or Joe Simon.

I don't know how it came about, seeing as how we are dealing with Harvey material, but somehow Marvel for awhile had license to publish both Fighting American and but Boys Ranch as well. Maybe Simon sold his rights.

Marvel released these classic Kirby volumes in the late 80's or early 90's. I'm lucky enough to have both, but they definitely need another print run.

[T GUy]

somehow Marvel for awhile had license to publish both Fighting American and but Boys Ranch as well. Maybe Simon sold his rights.

Or even licensed them.

[benday-dot]

And didn't Charlton do a one-shot of Fighting American in the 60's, containing, I think, reprints of the earlier Harvey material?

TGuy is probably right... Simon or Harvey Co. was licensing this material out.

Marvel, given their strong association with Kirby over the years, must have thought they could do okay by optioning some of this classic material.

[Red Oak Kid]

And didn't Charlton do a one-shot of Fighting American in the 60's, containing, I think, reprints of the earlier Harvey material?

TGuy is probably right... Simon or Harvey Co. was licensing this material out.

Marvel, given their strong association with Kirby over the years, must have thought they could do okay by optioning some of this classic material.

I know that I had a Fighting American one shot in the 70s when I was collecting. I think it was the 1966 Harvey one shot, but it may have been coverless since the cover scan at GCD doesn't ring a bell.

But I was also buying Charltons. But if the one I had had been by Charlton I think I would have remembered the bad printing, and my memory is that whatever I had was well printed.

BTW according to the GCD there was a DC relaunch of the title in 94.
Anyone ever see that? Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Not to mention the classic Liefeld version

[benday-dot]

I know that I had a Fighting American one shot in the 70s when I was collecting. I think it was the 1966 Harvey one shot, but it may have been coverless since the cover scan at GCD doesn't ring a bell.

But I was also buying Charltons. But if the one I had had been by Charlton I think I would have remembered the bad printing, and my memory is that whatever I had was well printed.

BTW according to the GCD there was a DC relaunch of the title in 94.
Anyone ever see that? Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Not to mention the classic Liefeld version

No, you are quite right ROK. The 1966 one-shot was a Harvey re-issue from the original Prize series. I was, as they say, "misremembering."

I just went back and read Joe Simon's intro to the 1989 Fighting American volume, published by Marvel. The Fighting American copyright is stated as wholly belonging to Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Simon makes it clear that this was not going to be another work for hire Captain America style creation. This time their guy with the shield only answered to S&K.

So would the Kirby ownership have passed to his estate? Or is the possibilty of a further reprint now soley in the hands of Joe Simon.