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Title: The Complete Jack Kirby, Volume 1 by Greg Theakston, Jack Kirby ISBN: 1-56685-006-1 Publisher: Pure Imagination Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: horribly drawn stories for kids
Comment: Surely no one buys these things to read them; comics, especially old ones like this, exist as an outlet for the drawings. This book features the artwork of Jack Kirby, who is surely the worst artist ever to work in comics, which paradoxically is why he was so influential.The drawings here are so simplistic, crude and unutterably ugly that I, and all the other kids I knew, were embarassed by them, but they appeal greatly to the visually illiterate preadolescents who made them popular.Kirby and his imitators are the ones who drug the level of superhero comics down to their current pro-wrestling level. Spare your eyes and avoid this one.

Rating: 5
Summary: Jack Kirby, The Early Days
Comment: If you are a fan of comic book art, of course you know about Jack Kirby, one of the great American artists of the 20th Century, on a par with Duke Ellington, Picasso, Hemingway and Bob Dylan with his place in artistic history. This book collects his early years, back when he was slaving away at the dawn of comic books during the Golden Age. While the artwork pales somewhat with his later work, his genius is obvious at this early time in his life. The tales of his life growing up on the Lower East Side of New York City is worth the price of the book. The first of a series that intends to collect his complete artistic output. A+!