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Superman is an attention whore.

Everyone looks mildly pleased with him.

"Hmmm....yes...the chains-thing. Right. Got it. Cool. I guess..."

What is funnier is that it looks like Curt Swan drew the head again.... Editorial would never accept Kirby's Superman heads...until later in the 70's.

That's like Al Plastino or something.

I haven't seen this one before. It looks to be inked by Mike Royer, and the Suprman's head is inked by Murphy Anderson. Which was typical of Kirby's JIMMY OLSEN 133-148 run, although this looks more late 70's/early 80's era Kirby art, although I guess it must have been done at DC's specification during the 1970-1972 period, or Anderson would not have inked the Superman head.

It looks like a foldout poster, wonder where it's from. Maybe a toy giveaway?

There were a lot of nice Kirby Superman covers and collaborations with Neal Adams on the covers of Kirby's JIMMY OLSEN run, which I posted in the "Jack Kirby, a tribute to the King" topic.

Yep, Murphy Anderson



It was from a Superman card/puzzle game that came out in the early to mid-seventies. My younger brother had it as a kid. More pictures from the card game, including what looks like Superman fighting Marvel's Devil Dinosaur and the Toad Men are available here

Plastino, Anderson, even Swan... they're all shit compared to Wayne Boring.

Yep, Murphy Anderson





Thanks for the link. One of the pages...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3209/2675885811_82e615d4d7_z.jpg

...dates it as 1971(in the lower right).
Although if there wasn't a date, it's listed as copyright National Periodical Publications, which still would place it before 1977, when Jeanette Kahn changed the company name to DC Comics.

Not the best Kirby art I've seen, but still some nice "lost" work, and representative of the period, how the Kirby/Royer and Kirby/Anderson linework looked at the time. Kirby's JIMMY OLSEN run is one of my favorite series. A rare look at Kirby doing a run on a Superman title, with a revival of the Newsboy Legion, an army of guest characters, including Kirby's Fourth World, a lot of bizarre and humorous elements, and a continuity with the Swan/Anderson SUPERMAN and ACTION titles through the Anderson-inked heads, which I liked despite that Kirby himself didn't.
To me it's a run that shows how fun and action-packed a superhero title can be.

A comparable title is the Levitz Giffen LEGION run (issues 285-306) from 1982-1983, that I felt Levitz and Giffen were trying to capture the feel of kirby's JIMMY OLSEN.

I like many Boring stories too.

But the best Superman for me is the Swan/Anderson team, beginning in 1970. My favorite from that run are ACTION 399 and SUPERMAN 233, although there are many great issues, from about 1970-1974, and more scattered Swanderson collaborations after, concluding with the Alan Moore "Whatever happened to the man of Tomorrow" story by Alan Moore in 1985.

Al Plastino inked the Kirby heads on JIMMY OLSEN 133-134.
And also FOREVER PEOPLE 1.


Murphy Anderson inked 135-139, 141-145, and 148. (Colletta inks, Anderson inks only on Superman and Jimmy Olsen characters)

Issues 146-147 were inked completely by Mike Royer.

Explains why you post like you do.

PS: Jack Kirby was shit when he was alive, and he is still shit now he is dead.
Only thing he drew that was any good was his last breath.

WTF is in that guy's mouth.....?

now we know why WB looooves the Kirby!

I miss the Far Side.

i used to cut those out of the newspaper when i was younger. that stuff is genius, you can read it over and over and still laugh.

Seriously, would a newspaper even print this one today?





There have been many to try and copy it, but no one has come close.

the far side is golden. you can get that behemoth 1,200 page collection for like $50 now at a few online spots (i think it was closer to $200 a few years back)