Thanks for the praise Casselmm.

And for the correction about Dick Dillin as well. I'd initially thought Irv Novick entered comics in the late 60's as well, and later learned he's been doing comics since the 1940's.
Live and learn.

I'll look up that article you list, from AMAZING WORLD OF DC COMICS #11.

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Another Kirby collaborator I've wanted to mention (whose reputation is as god-like in the comics industry as Kirby's own) is Steve Ditko.

I love the work they collaborated on together, in the 1958-1963 issues of JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY, STRANGE TALES, TALES TO ASTONISH, TALES OF SUSPENSE, and scattered other covers and stories, including FF # 13 (introducing the Watcher and the Blue Area of the moon, that Byrne later re-drew from the Kirby/Ditko FF issue, in X-MEN 137)

Here's the main page for an outstanding Ditko website, the best I've seen for any comic book artist:

http://www.ditko.comics.org/

From the above site, here's an extremely rare photo of Steve Ditko.
I'd never seen a photo of Ditko, until the internet made one available. Ditko is extremely reclusive, and doesn't make himself available for fan press interviews.




And here's the section I appreciate the most:
An extraordinarily detailed checklist of Ditko's work.

You can look up stuff 3 different ways in this checklist:
1) alphabetically,
2) chronologically,
or
3) by specific publisher.

An amazing amount of work and user-friendliness went into this checklist. (A list like this should exist for Kirby ! )

http://www.ditko.comics.org/ditko/check/ditkoch.html





And finally, here's one of my favorite Kirby pencils /Ditko inks collaborations, the cover to STRANGE TALES # 80 (January 1961):





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And of course, the most famous Kirby/Ditko cover collaboration:


( fullsize image at: )
http://fullsize.15.GIF



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