Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Now That's What I Call a Splash Page (Atlas Division)

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Splash page of "The Strange Magic of Master Khan!" in Strange Tales #77 (October 1960), art by Steve Ditko



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Splash page of "I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World!" in Strange Tales #77 (July 1960), art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers



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Splash page of "A Martian Walks Among Us!" in Strange Tales #78 (November 1960), art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers



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Splash page of "The Fourth Man!" in Amazing Adventures #6 (November 1961), script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko



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Splash page of "I Saw Diablo! The Demon from the Fifth Dimension!" in Tales of Suspense #9 (May 1960), art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. This story may be the first Marvel-Earth appearance of Ulysses Bloodstone (unnamed here)



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Splash page of "Man Alone!" in Strange Tales #105 (February 1963), plot by Stan Lee, script by Larry Lieber, pencils and inks by Don Heck, letters by Ray Holloway



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Splash page of "Beware--The Machine!!!" in Strange Tales #111 (August 1963), plot by Stan Lee, script and pencils by Larry Lieber, inks by Matt Fox, letters by Artie Simek



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Splash page of "I Found the Giant in the Sky!" in Journey Into Mystery #55 (December 1959), art by Steve Ditko



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Splash page of "I Come from the Shadow World!" in Tales of Suspense #7 (January 1960), script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko



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Splash page of "Sserpo! The Creature Who Crushed the Earth!" in Amazing Adventures #6 (November 1961), art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers


5 comments:

  1. OMG Diablo is totally the Smoke Monster aka Man in Black aka Fake Locke

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  2. Awesomely boldly beautiful .. I love a splash page that you can read from 10 feet away :) Kirby clearly loved starting his stories with a bang...no plodding exposition to slow you down. And later he was all about the two-page splash.

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  3. I was always disappointed that the Exiles never went to an earth where critters like Shagg ruled the world.

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  4. I love how obsessed with rock-monsters Kirby was. The man was a genius.

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  5. Absolutely awesome! I feel two feet shorter just looking at those!

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