The Complete Jack Kirby, Volume 2 [Paperback]

Greg Theakston (Author), Jack Kirby (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 270 pages
• Publisher: Pure Imagination Publishing; 1 edition (December 1998)
• ISBN-10: 156685007X
• ISBN-13: 978-1566850070
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,925,981 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Sharp black-and-white collection of Golden Age comics., April 28, 2002

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This review is from: The Complete Jack Kirby, Volume 2 (Paperback)

Crisp, remastered ("Theakstonized"), black-and-white reprints of 40's-era Jack Kirby (and Joe Simon) comics highlight this volume, although there's a couple dozen pages of historical discussion about Kirby's life and career, as well. This volume (#2) contains several Blue Bolt stories, four or five Fawcett Comics Captain Marvel (Shazam!) stories, and a slew of various other strips from 1940 and 1941 (just prior to the time Kirby and Simon left comics to fight in World War II). Some of the better-known works from that period, like the Captain America and Vision stories (which are now owned by Marvel Comics) have been left out of this volume.

Many comics readers do not care for Golden Age comics at all, and if that is the case for you, then this collection may not be your cup of tea. For my own part, I liked the Blue Bolt stories best: they have a cool Buck Rogers / Flash Gordon feel that you won't find in the Simon-Kirby Captain America stories from the same period of time.

I think Theakston put a lot of effort into producing this volume. The reprinting here is a lot kinder on my eyeballs than the similar black-and-white reprints you can find in the less expensive Marvel Essentials collections. However, you may find the price prohibitive, not to mention the relative obscurity of the reprinted material.