Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Where There's Smoe There's Krackle

Jack Kirby Special 3.

Today's Jack Kirby story from his DC period features some early use of heavy black inking for fire and smoke. Not really the Kirby Krackle that would later be so typical for him, but he was getting there.

From House of Mystery #65:






2 comments:

Daniel [oeconomist.com] said...

Dude destroyed private vaults, but left parking meters? What a complete jerk!

JohnK said...

I love all this rare early Kirby stuff. What an amazing style.