24 Hours with Jack Kirby: Hour 10

Here's a weird and wacky early Jack Kirby appearance...in, of all places, Millie the Model!

All panels are from Millie the Model #107 (March 1962), by Stan Goldberg

Say, I can't find that cover of Strange Tales anywhere in the pre-Human Torch early 1960s issues!

The modeling assignment for our glamour girl is simple: comics artist Jack Kirby is looking for a life model to pose for a story. (Overhearing this outside on the landing, a light bulb of inspiration appears over the head of young Nelson Alexander Ross.)


Millie's not too certain she wants to take the job. Aw, c'mon Mil...you ain't afraid of no ghost! Or, Atlas Monster.


Later at the spacious offices of KirbyConGlomerateCom, Millie's frightened of a larger-than life monster model in Jack's studio. I'm not certain whether she's scared of it, or that she's frightened that a grown man collects and displays monster models.


Meanwhile, Millie's conniving and still-in-the-closet rival, the spicy and heart-burning Chili, has Wile E. Coyotesque plans to frighten and steal the modeling assignment away from Millie! Yes, true to life model tales. This is actually how Cindy Crawford got the Revlon contract away from Paulina Poriskova.


But Chili herself is scared off because Jack's wearing a rubber monster mask. Haw haw! Comedy doors crack me up every time!


Later, Millie and Chili finally find common ground and one thing to agree upon: girls don't read comics.


(Well, at least until Sandman, Strangers in Paradise, and Gail Simone come along.)