365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 109: The Leader's Plastic Replica of the Hulk

It's a plastic replica of the Hulk.


Splash page from "To Live Again!" in Tales to Astonish #70 (August 1965), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Mike Esposito, letters by Art Simek
A PLASTIC MODEL OF THE HULK.


Not to be confused with this Hulk plastic model.

365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 108: Granny Goodness's "Bomb-Clock"

Mister Miracle has been captured by Granny Goodness and her Grotesque Goons! And they're going to attach him to the Bomb-Clock!


Panel from Mister Miracle (1971 series) #18 (February-March 1974), script and pencils by Jack Kirby, inks and letters by Mike Royer
Eh, a Bomb-Clock. It's a bomb with a clock on it, I bet. Nothing to get too excited about...Mister Miracle is, of course, the world's greatest escape artist, so I'm sure he can escape from that in a mere matter of seconds and then HOTCHY MOTCHY

I will never ever ever get tired of this gag

365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 107: The US Army's Sunday Punch Super-Missile (M1-472)

Welcome to the Atomic Age...and that Trajectile to Astonish, the Sunday Punch Missile!


Panel from "To Live Again!" in Tales to Astonish #70 (August 1965), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Mike Esposito, letters by Artie Simek
The Sunday Punch Missile launches copies of the 1942 MGM film of the same name at its target, thus bombing them...with a capital B (for B-movie). General "Thunderbolt" Ross and Major Glenn "Betty's Second Choice" Talbot have launched it...well, not at the Hulk, but at one of the Leader's giant plastic behemoth super-robots! Still, I'm betting they won't be too broken up if the Hulk gets blown into teeny-weeny green pieces at the same time. It's two for the price of one at Gamma Savings Days! Everybody wins!


Splash page from "Like a Beast at Bay!" in Tales to Astonish #72 (September 1965), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Mike Esposito, letters by Artie Simek
To paraphrase Mr. Slim Shady:

Please don't drop bomb on Hulk
Major Talbot, please don't drop the bomb Hulk
Drop bomb on them
I don't want no doggone beef
See? Ain't no reason to sick dogs on Hulk
Drop bomb on 'em
Please don't drop bomb on Hulk!

Yes, it's the Marvel Universe's United States Army. When you absolutely, positively have to drop a big-ass atomic bomb in your own country.


Luckily, we're told, the Sunday Punch does not spread radioactivity: it simply bombs the poop of things. Wait a minute, why has the Army never used another one of these things? Why wouldn't they just launch it at the caves with Osama bin Laden-616? Or, at the very least, the Skrulls. Did you guys forget how to make this thing?

Luckily, the Hulk uses the blast of the bomb to jump into the upper atmosphere, high enough to see the curvature of the earth, and then falls back to the ground without suffering any major reentry burning or freezing of his and Rick's lungs, because comic books.


In the 1966 Hulk cartoon series, the Sunday Punch Missile (at minute 4:02) is mistakenly referred to as "M-472" (it's missing 1 1: "M1-472") and is colored red, white, and blue. It's the Captain Americmissile!


It also features the greatest overacting ever in the Marvel Super Heroes series—stick around for the last couple lines of the episode.

So, to conclude: Sunday Punch!

365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 106: Nick Fury's Desk Telephone at SHIELD

Avengers Mansion has ordinary everyday phones. Not to mention some kick-ass black light framed velvet psychedelic art that Tony Stark picked up in a gas station parking lot in El Paso.


Panels from "A Time to Die — A Time to Live!" in Tales of Suspense #95 (November 1967), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Sinnott, letters by Artie Simek
On the other hand only a few pages later, check out Nick Fury's awesome KirbyTech phone from S.H.I.E.L.D.*—a masterwork of incredible design that implants the most up-to-date space-age communications tech mounted on a desk lamp.


Well, at least it's not as complicated as SHIELD's Inter-Continental Phone Hook-Up Harness. On the other hand, it's not as streamlined as the Fantastic Four's telephone. And, I just gotta ask...why would you put your phone on your desk on your blind side?

In any case, Nick's phone is not the world's coolest spy phone. Which one is, you ask? Why, what else but...



*Spitcurls Have Infiltrated Every Life-Model Decoy

365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 105: A Wakandan Exercise Machine for the Thing

Panels from Fantastic Four (1961 series) #54 (September 1966), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Sinnott, letters by Sam Rosen

365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 104: Al B. Harper's Device

And now...Al B. Harper!



No, no, no, not Al B. Sure(!)...Al B. Harper. Al B. Harper has never had a top Billboard Chart hit single, but he was a brilliant scientist who had doorknobs that responded well to the "cosmic thrust" and OH NO WE DON'T WANNA KNOW WHAT A "COSMIC THRUST" IS, NORRIN RADD.


Panels from Silver Surfer (1968 series) #5 (April 1969), script by Stan Lee, pencils by John Buscema, inks by Sal Buscema, letters by Sam Rosen

365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 103: Project Vanish

Project...Vanish! The secret WWII-era Allied energy weapon so powerful it can clean dirty latrines across the entire Western front shoot a big beam of energy at leapin' Captain America right on the front cover, while making it still look like it's attached to a guy's arm...Project Vanish!


Detail from the cover of Tales of Suspense #68 (August 1965), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Frank Giacoia, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Artie Simek
And that, give or take a cameo appearance in a circle by Bucky "Someday I'll Have a Major Motion Picture Named After Me" Barnes, is really just about all you need to know about Project Vanish. What, you want to know more? Well, read on, faithful fan, read on!