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Wonder Boy said:


Which has complete scans of every "lost" Kirby monster story --every last page of every unreprinted story online-- from 1959-1963, and you can read each story online !


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Captain Sweden said:
That looks like a great website Dave! I'll save some of those comics when I get time!


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Beardguy57 said:

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It's great stuff, guys.

And about 200 pages of it !


My favorite Kirby stuff righht now is the pre-Marvel stuff, from 1958-1963.
Including Kirby's monster stories in the first 35 or so issues of TALES OF SUSPENSE( till Iron Man took over) and TALES TO ASTONISH(till Ant-Man took over) , JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY 51-83 (till Thor took over), and STRANGE TALES roughly 50-100 (before the Human Torch, Doctor Strange and Nick Fury took over).

Plus the more short-lived AMAZING ADVENTURES, AMAZING FANTASY, STRANGE WORLDS and WORLD OF FANTASY.


In addition to the monster stories, Kirby did a wide range of other types of stories: war, western and romance, which I have scattered issues of.
In titles like GUNSMOKE WESTERN, RAWHIDE KID, TWO-GUN KID, KID COLT OUTLAW, LOVE ROMANCES, TEEN-AGE ROMANCE, YOUNG ROMANCE, and BATTLE.


These are wonderful inventive stories, with great little twists of characterization, humor, irony and nobility.

I especially love the RAWHIDE KID stories Kirby did in this era. Like the monster stories, most are 5 pages, 7 pages, or 13 pages. And yet they have more plot than many 22-page stories today. And than any number of current 6-issue "story-arcs" for that matter.

I have a few original RAWHIDE KID issues, but most I have reprinted cheaply in the 70's title MIGHTY MARVEL WESTERN.

Ah, for the days of old, when we expected more and got it...