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When respected MP Gregor Jack is caught in a police raid on an Edinburgh brothel and his flamboyant wife Elizabeth suddenly disappears, John Rebus smells a set-up. And when Elizabeth's badly beaten body is found, Rebus is suddenly up against a killer who holds all the cards..
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best ever Rebus?.......2007-05-10
Having grown up in Scotland I've read quite a few of these out of pure nostalgia for the olde country......this one is perhaps the best I've read so far as Rankin ditches the faux working class realism of junkies and serial killers and moves into perhaps his own (and therefore most comfortable) world, that of the Range Rover driving middle classes. At heart Rebus, with his flat and his girlfriends and hi-fi, is still a middle class hero, and I can picture him having a couple of pints with Inspector Morse, even if Rankin would perhaps shudder at that thought........
Most excellent.......2007-05-05
When I chanced upon Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series I took no chances and tucked into it with gusto. The first in the series, Knots and Crosses wasn't all that, in fact it wasn't a very stron mystery. But as I went through the series one by one, the experienced stopped being a slop and became more os a joy. This book has been very entertaining and has rewarded my faith in Rankin.
The storyline and plot are structures in Rankin's novels. Not that they are bad but they are merely one of many reasons to read the book. His writing is gossipy, psychological, sometimes schizophrenic but always rewarding to the reader because it encompasses so much. This story had the best flowing narrative so far. The description of the crime scene investigation part of the story is detailed, horryfying, and fascinating, even though it is just a peripheral part of the story. The discourses on books and the literary world is also fascinating but also peripheral. This series embodies all that is great with a multifaceted explorarion of crime and crime solving with hte grit and realism of a Dashiel Hammett novel.
Each Book Gets Better.......2006-03-27
This is the fifth of the series that I've read, and all I can say is that Rankin/Rebus get better as the series grows and so does the character. Rankin does a good job of filling in the personality of Rebus and his supporting cast ('Farmer' Watson, 'Fart' Lauderdale, Brian Holmes...etc) and their working relationships.
In this book we also get a travelogue of the areas north of Edinburgh, but we also get an insight into how Rankin/Rebus feels about politics, the old and new rich, the pressure that the media can put on the police, as well as the presumption of authority.
All in all this is a fine addition to the series.
This is my introduction to the Rebus series..........2005-06-03
And I think it's safe to say I couldn't find a successful complaint. The characters are complex and human, thankfully drawn out in a 3-D shape which helped me actuall care about the characters. John Rebus is no hero, he's just a guy who does his damn job. Brian Holmes I found to be a good character, quite happy with his involvement.
I never once found myself bored by this book and was quite impressed with how Ian Rankin kept me entertained with his mix of dark humour and dark side of the streets of Scotland. It's a bit hard to join up in the middle of a series but I think Ian Rankin did well with that part of the job. I hope I will read more of Ian Rankin's boks and hope I am as entertained by them as I was by this one.
"MP Gregor Jack is caught in an Edinburgh brothel with a prostitute who is only too keen to show off her considerable assets. Initially, Detective Inspector Rebus is sympathetic to the MP's dilemma - who hasn't occasionally succumbed to temptation? The Jack's wife disappears. Someone want's to strip Jack naked and Rebus want's to know why."
Very good!.......2004-03-17
This is my first Ian Rankin novel. Although I find the TV version of Rebus (BBC) interesting and stylish, the episodes are very moody, dark and gristly. I was a little worried that the book would be the same way, however, it was excellent, witty and complicated! The reader took a little getting used to, but I got into it and enjoyed it.
I am giving it 4 stars instead of five because I thought the ending was good, but not great.
Another reviewer refers to the "new, mellower" Rebus, so maybe the earlier works are violent. I can only say that I will keep on reading Rankin!
Book Description
The first archive in a series collecting the adventures ofKamandi, the last boy on Earth, by Jack Kirby! In these tales from KAMANDI#1-10 (1972-1973), Kamandi --one of the few survivors of the Great Disaster-- must make his way in a world populated by bizarre mutated animals andother strange wonders!
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Weigh the options before purchasing......OOPS! NM!.......2007-07-09
I do not own this particular volume, and was debating purchasing it. Here is the reason: I LOVE Kamandi, and up unitl a few years ago only had 10 or so issues of the entire run. A few years back I decided to go and get the missing back issues. This I was able to accomplish quite quickly. (It took two days at a major Comic Book Convention). I was able to complete my run on most of the missing issues for $1 to $2 a piece. I don't think I spent more than $10 for any given issue, even the earlier ones. Do the math. By the time they complete this series at $50 an archive the total series will cost you roughly $300 dollars. (It is a 59 issue run) For that price you can own the ORIGINALS (not anymore, See Addendum), and still have some pocket money to spare.
This is GREAT Kirby stuff, and I LOVE the "Planet of the Apes Post-Apocalyptic" flavor. I still might buy it, just to keep my originals in good condition, but I definitely won't pay list price.
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When I originally wrote this review I had not checked current back issue prices for these books. Although I was lucky to get the books for a song a few years back, back issue prices seem to have sky rocketed! It may no longer be possible to get the series cheaper than these Archives. If you like Kamandi and Kirby or even Planet of the Apes, buy this series. Sorry for the three stars.
Kamandi Archives 1.......2007-02-22
I started reading comics toward the end of Jack Kirby's career, so I never really had an opportunity to read his mid-70's DC work. I kind of had my doubts about this one, but I decided to give it try. I've gotta say I really loved it. The stories were just bustling with energy and I was riveted by the storytelling. So much so that I read this over a 2 day period. My one early complaint would be how close the first issue is an homage to the Planet of the Apes movie, but things branch out from there. This was a lot of fun and I'm anxiously awaiting #2.
PERHAPS KIRBY'S LAST GREAT WORK.......2005-11-08
Kamandi was a unique book in a number of ways. It was one of the first projects, along with the New Gods, that Jack "The King" Kirby worked on after leaving Marvel for DC in the early 1970's. The days of artists bullpens of the 60's and 70's are pretty well gone today by work-for-hire freelancers and comic writers and artists work for a number of different companies. But back then, Kirby leaving Marvel where he been working since the Golden Age was huge news. It would have been like Mickey Mantle going to the Red Sox. While Kamandi does not reflect Kirby at his very best, it may be his last GREAT work. This Archive edition collects the first ten issues of the Kamandi series.
Kirby was given free reign on the book as writer, penciller and editor with Mike Royer handling the inks and letters. Kamandi, Last Boy on Earth, is a wild and adventurous look at a post apocalyptic, near future Earth where a great disaster has all but wiped out the race of men and in their place, talking, intelligent animal races now rule the world. Tigers, Lions, Dogs, Rats, Gorillas, and more now hold sway and the surviving men are basically kept as slaves and though of as animals. The story is heavily influenced by the Planet of the Apes films which were enormously popular at the time but also by other films such as "The Omega Man". Kamandi was raised in an underground complex by his grandfather. The complex was named Command "D" hence the name "Kamandi". When his grandfather is killed, Kamandi finds himself alone and on the run in this strange world of intelligent beasts.
He will eventually befriend a tiger prince named Tuftan, aiding the tigers in their war with the gorillas, much to the disapproval of Tuftan's father Caesar, ruler of the Tigers. Kamandi does eventually meet more humans including Ben Boxer. Boxer, in his old style Apollo era space suit looks uncannily like a certain other character named Ben...one Ben Grimm of the Fantastic Four. Boxer and his companions have been exposed to radiation which allows them to undergo a nuclear fission reaction that transforms their bodies making them hard as steel and invulnerable. Once again the theme of radiation causing mutations becomes a central theme. Kamandi joins with boxer and his friends as they make use of the existing old technology of man such as mini subs and air ships.
These first ten issues follow Kamandi through one turbulent adventure after another as he finds himself constantly in the wrong place at the wrong time, captured and then having to escape. The beasts of this new world take on the personalities that we commonly associate with them. Lions are noble and good and actually help Kamandi while the rats are devious and attack the weak in packs. The variety of stories that Kirby writes makes these tales all a bit different. There's a wonderful spoof of King King when a giant ape named "Tiny" escapes his captors. In another scene, Kamandi is seen reading a copy of "The Demon" another 1970's Kirby title and boasting about these "old comic magazines". A not so subtle plug but Kirby's certainly earned the right if anyone has.
Kirby's art still is solid and I think some of his very best work of the 1970's. Jack's action was dynamic and there are some truly memorable covers and pages in this collection. True, Kamandi does look a little bit like a young Thor with his long, blond wavy hair and square jaw but if you're going to draw on earlier work why not draw on perhaps his very best work of the 1960's. Mike Royer does a great job with the inks doing his best Joe Sinnott imitation. He lets Kirby be Kirby without trying to embellish his own style or diminish Jack's pencils the way a Vinnie Colletta often did.
Kamandi was a vastly underrated book back in the 1970's when people didn't pay much attention to a book if it wasn't a super hero or horror theme. Many thanks to DC Comics for giving this title the Archive edition it deserves and preserving the work of the great Jack Kirby.
Reviewed by Tim Janson
Earth A.D. Revisited!.......2005-11-04
"Kamandi" was one of Jack Kirby's most unusual and engrossing projects. Partially inspired by the seventies "Planet of the Apes" concept (as well as an older, unused comic strip idea that Kirby had lying around), the series explored the adventures of "the last boy on Earth".
The story centers on Kamandi, a boy raised by his grandfather in a bunker complex for which the boy was named (Command D, get it?). Unaffected by the changes in the outside world, Kamandi is raised with experiences much like ours (other than his extreme isolation). He often read of the world we live in and desired to see it. When his grandfather is killed, Kamandi ventures out into the world, only to find that things have changed considerably!
As I mentioned, Kirby clearly was partially inspired by Planet of the Apes, but instead of a rip-off, this is more of an expansion on the idea. And the "widescreen" scope of the visuals is beyond anything PotA ever tried to do. The two-page spread on pages 2-3 of the first issue are a breathtaking scene of New York City underwater, a partially submerged and tilted Statue of Liberty in the foreground. The statue is common with PotA, but the effect is entirely different. They are nothing alike.
Interestingly, issue one also shows a nuclear missile being worshipped, something the second PotA movie later showed. So it is likely that the scriptwriter of the second movie actually "borrowed back" from Kamandi. There was an interesting synergy between the two.
Kamandi encounters a vivid array of characters channeled straight from the unmatched imagination of Jack Kirby. This is a world where lions, tigers, bears and many other animals walk like men used to, but man is more of an animal himself. In this world, a new Caesar rules in Roam (not Rome).
For me, the strength of the stories are the personalities Kamandi encounters. There is Doctor Camus, the dog researcher; Flower, a half-dressed savage girl who is Kamandi's first love; Prince Tuftan, Caesar's son and heir who becomes an unlikely but endearing friend to Kamandi, and Ben Boxer, one of three radioactive mutants who provide Kamandi with the closest thing he has to other intelligent human beings.
I'm not quite old enough to remember when Kamandi was in print, but I got hold of a dozen back issues when I was about eight or ten, and it captured my imagination instantly. I remember the series VERY fondly, and I would like nothing better than to have the entire Kirby run in this beautiful hardcover format.
By the way, Kirby's name for Kamandi's world was "Earth A.D.", or "After Disaster". The state of the world was due to a "Great Disaster" that was never entirely explained.
Recommended to anyone with an imagination!
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CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN ARCHIVES VOL. 1 reprints theoriginal 1950s tales of four death defying adventurers and their impossibleand unimaginable exploits. After surviving the crash of a small aircraft,test pilot Ace Morgan, daredevil Red Ryan, heavyweight boxing champ RockyDavis, and marine scientist Professor Haley unite themselves in a missionto explore the unexplainable for the good of mankind. This beautifulhardcover edition tells the earliest adventurers of these four men ofdifferent backgrounds and personalities as they encounter powerful aliens,deadly robots, and creatures of unknown origins.
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For Kirby fanatics only.......2006-09-25
DC has done an excellent job in the reproduction of this and its companion volume. The quality of the art and color are clear, sharp and first rate. So don't hesitate to buy these 2 volumes if you're concerned about the technical aspects. The problem is simply that these stories are pretty forgettable. Jack Kirby's art is decent enough given the constraints of DC's house style, but lacks the dynamics of the monster stuff he was doing at Marvel at the same time. There are moments of imagination and inspiration, but they are few and far between. The Challengers themselves are totally uninteresting as characters -- they have no personalities, and have no real interplay with one another. The fact that they all wear the same dull purple jumpsuits only accentuates their lack of individuality. The plots are mostly straightforward, lacking the plot twists or the cleverness that were the hallmarks of DC's best writers (Gardner Fox, John Broome, Edmond Hamilton). Reading these stories makes it clear why this was one of DC's second string titles. Of the 2 volumes, volume 2 is the better one, in that most of the stories are inked by the great Wally Wood. So, if you're a Kirby fanatic, you'll want this in your library. But if you're looking for content that's entertaining, you can do better.
A Bit of a Fantastic Four Prototype, but also Very Different!.......2005-07-26
The Challengers of the Unknown are one of my favorites, especially these early Kirby stories. I guess the concept just appeals to the independent streak in me. I like the idea of "rugged individuals" (if you will) overcoming impossible odds, and WITHOUT the typical comic-book crutch of super-powers!
The Challengers of the Unknown are four ordinary humans (well, okay, extraordinary humans, but without super-powers) who survive a plane crash and afterwards decide they are living on "borrowed time". They use this extra life to undertake impossible challenges (climbing Mt. Everest kind of stuff) and fight evil (sundry arch-fiends, alien invaders and the occasional mad sorcerer). Therein lies the dichotomy that makes the Challengers unique! They basically have a death-wish that expresses itself as an optimistic re-affirmation of the human spirit!
Plus, it's great to see normal people beat the crap out of supervillains without the luxury of having been bitten by a radioactive spider first, or without having been rocketed to earth from another planet 25 years earlier. These guys do it all with brains and training. Like the Batman, but without the angst or the mask.
RECOMMENDED!
(And don't forget Volume 2!!!)
Kirby without Stan Lee.......2004-03-21
This Archive Edition of four Showcase tryouts and the first two issues of Challengers of the Unknown presents a delightful kalidescope of romping Jack Kirby action. Very different from anything else in the late 1950's DC universe.The Showcase issues are each one very long and complexly developed story unlike most of the '50s period DC comics that favored multiple stories. This is just one of many touches that prefigure aspects and characteristics of the Marvel renaissance several years in the future.Part of the joy of this collection is picking out pieces of the future Marvel Universe : a whole story that parallels FF#24 the Infant Terrible, along with monsters and dragons similar to preheroe Marvel horror issues, along with a rock creature with a hide like the Thing and robots that look like Ironman. The list goes on and on. The ProtoMarvel aspect is not the only reason to buy this book, however. The stories and art are fantastic, with Jack Kirby at his peak creating a kinetic collage of action and a plethora of monsters and threats that are truely dizzing per issue. Just like the Fourth World series of books in the 1970's these stories give you a chance to see what KIrby could do without Stan Lee and it is terrific, but also telling, in the absence of the Marvel magic that Stan contributed. No real humor, no flip, hip dialogue and no Shakespearian introspection.After reading these wonderful stories you can see how special the Lee/Kirby team really was. Archive Editions are great but expensive--this one is worth every penny IF you are a Kirby fan. The stories are a hard to describe mix of H.P. Lovecraft and SciFi. Truely fantastic, but unimaginable to me that any 1950's DC editor would not have his head spinning then go into seizures to see this stuff printed with a DC logo. Kirby did not stay long on this series .Volume 2 ,in the future , has the rest of his limited run -more joy for us! If you have read this far your wallet should be lighter, you will not regret it!
What Jack Kirby did between Joe Simon and Stan Lee.......2003-11-16
The American comic book reached its low point in the 1950s, primarily because the Comics Code gutted EC comics, which meant not only the horror titles like "Tales of the Crypt" but also the science fiction and war titles as well. During that period the team of Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, creaters of Captain America, The Boy Commandos, and the Newboy Legion, ended their partnership as well. Kirby turned to a concept that he had been kicking around and the "Challengers of the Unknown" was published by DC Comics in 1957. The Foreword by Paul Kupperberg in this volume will help put the comic in historical perspective.
Our story begins in "Showcase" #6 with the crash of a small airplane from which four men walk away: Ace Morgan, the war hero and test pilot; Rocky Davis, the heavyweight boxing champ; Red Ryan, the mountain climber and circus daredevil; and Professor Haley, a deep sea scientist. When the quartet walked away from the plane crash they declared that they were now living on "borrowed time," and the next thing we know they are wearing purple uniforms and playing hero. Since, by rights, they should be dead, they are fearless and foolhearty, even by comic book standards. This particular comic book was unusual in that issues usually had a single story, which was quite against the norm at that point in history. That was really more innovative than having a group of relatively normal guys be the heroes. However, the menaces they fought were almost always extraordinary: prehistoric monsters hatched from giant eggs, criminals traveling throught time, and angry aliens.
Volume 1 of the DC Archive Edition of "Challengers of the Unknown" collects "Showcase" #6-7, #11-12, and, "The Challengers of the Unknown" #1-2, including the original covers from this Silver Age classic. The chief attraction here is the art by Kirby, with the first four scripts being written by Dave Wood. These are essentially superhero comic books without superheroes. Much is made of the fact that four years later Kirby and Stan Lee would create the Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics, but seeking out the parallels is only half the fun. These comic stand on their own as fairly unique and ambitious, although once Kirby left they quickly fell out of favor.
Pre-Fantastic Four Kirby at Its Best!!!!!!.......2003-11-02
This is Jack Kirby at his best. Just before he made his switch to Marvel from DC he set loose on the world another Fantastic Four-the Challengers of the Unknown. Their adventures did not lack from their lack of super powers, if anything they were enhanced by it. Some of the stoires echoed Kirby's big monster stories for Marvel where ordinary men battled beings from beyond the norm. A great read with that DC silver age feel and yet that feeling of Marvel power. The next volume will have Wally Wood mixing in with Kirby and I can't wait for it!!!!
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A (Mostly) Forgotten Masterpiece .......2007-09-30
Amazing Adult Fantasy issues #7-14 was a short-lived experiment in which Marvel Comics writer Stan Lee teamed up with artist Steve Ditko to create a masterpiece of comic story-telling and art. Although the genre was horror/monster/mystery tales, they rose far above the usual hackneyed stories of bug-eyed monsters of the early 1960s. It is said that Stan Lee thought this was some of his best work. His stories are clever, spare stories with a moral and a twist; at their best they rival Will Eisner's Spirit stories or Harvey Kurtzman's EC war stories in their O'Henry-like precision. I definitely believe this was the finest art of the unique Steve Ditko's career, surpassing his work in the more famous Spiderman and foreshadowing his art for Dr. Strange. The line and tone of his art in some of the stories is haunting. And some of the stories are just plain fun; how can you not get a kick out of a monster/tyrant called Tim Boo Baa?
Subtitled "the Magazine That Respects Your Intelligence," Amazing Adult Fantasy followed the amusing, but more mundane, Amazing Adventures #1-6(which primarily featured art by Jack Kirby). Because of limited sales, Amazing Adult Fantasy changed formats yet again in issue #15 and had the good luck to turn into one of the most famous of all comics, Amazing Fantasy #15, which premiered Spiderman, also created by Lee and Ditko. And then the series stopped altogether to make way for the Amazing Spiderman. While Spidey became one of the most famous and recognizable super-heroes, I've always felt that the less appreciated issues #7-14 represented a peak in comics history.
It is great that Marvel has finally reissued the entire run from #1 to #15 in an archival-quality edition that pays homage to this wonderful work. It is a shame, however, that the price tag is so hefty, because this means that only a few readers will be able to afford these long-lost gems. Hint to Marvel: do a paperback edition too.
TIM BOO BA walks among us!!!.......2007-09-25
"Many are the wonders of the vast universe. But none so fantastic as... TIM BOO BA!" This bold statement scripted by Marvel's founding father - Stan "the Man" Lee, foretells the terrible reign of the cruel reptilian dictator, who is finally bested by ....well, that would be telling, and unfair to the reader because most of this story's charm, like many others contained in this volume, derides from Twilight Zone "inspired" surprise ending. Some much so, Lee stated in an interview with Will Murray regarding his Amazing Fantasy scripts, "I used to get letters from readers `Hey, I just saw Twilight Zone, and they used one of your stories from issue so-and-so.'"
Amazing Fantasy THE TERROR of TIM BOO BA Omnibus vol.1 beautifully reprints in their entirety: Amazing Adventures #1-6, Amazing Adult Fantasy #7-14 and Amazing Fantasy #15 -- that's 416 pages (scripted and executed by Marvel's A-list talent: Lee, Ditko, and Kirby) brimming with evil alien invaders, rampaging giant monsters, and the creation of Marvel's greatest and most influential superhero -- Spider-man! This collection is a must have for vintage monster comic book fans who have enjoyed Dick Briefer's The Monster of Frankenstein, Monster Masterworks and Zombie Factory.
Monsters, aliens, and Ditko too!!.......2007-09-22
The masterful writing talents of Stan Lee coupled with the artistic embellishments of Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Don Heck, Paul Reinman and, of course, Steve Ditko who took over the entire she-bang. A four-color good time printed on slick paper, nicely bound in a blockbuster hardcover format retailing at the princely sum of $75.00. But, buy it fast because the price is sure to rise on the secondary market, as this sort of title usually goes out of print quickly. Reprints the first fifteen issues, including the premier Spider-man. Members of the Merry Marvel Marching Society may also enjoy reading "Marvel Masterworks Atlas Era Tales to Astonish," and "Monster Masterworks." Enjoy.
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Just in time for the Fourth of July!
Mighty Marvel is unfurling a new Masterworks crafted by an incomparable trio of talentsStan Lee, Jack Kirby and Jim Steranko! Its the best of 60s Marvel dynamism and design in one Captain America-packed volume!
Its all set off by four-issue rumble with the Red Skull! When the Nazi neer-do-well attachs an H- Bomb fuse to Cap, he has no choice but to serve the Skull or America will suffer nuclear annihilation! Even a healthy thumping on Batroc the Leaper and the Trapster, cant cure the Man Out of Times woes over his lost companion, Bucky. Relive Caps amazing origin and learn how he met Bucky Barnes.
If all that calamity from The King Kirby wasnt enough, strap on your psychedelic crash helmet for a course in Steranko! The master of the medium will take you on a ride like none other with Cap vs. the Hulk, the return of Bucky, and the death of Captain America in a battle with Hydra. We dont need to say it, but we cant help ourselvesNuff Said!
Collecting Captain America (Vol. 1) #101-113.
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Lee - Kirby - Steranko...how can you go wrong, Marvelite?.......2007-09-07
Collects Captain America #101-113. I don't see how anybody can buy these in the Essentials edition...they contain so much pulse-pounding color! It's classic villains galore as Cap fights the Red Skull and WWII Exiles, Batroc, Swordsman, the Living Laser, Dr. Faustus and...the fourth Sleeper! Don't miss plenty of angst for Cap over the death of Bucky and his love for Sharon Carter. There's also a nifty retelling of his origin behind one of the best Cap covers of all tiime (issue 109). Plus, This issue also reprints all three of Jim Steranko's much-lauded, groundbreaking issues, wherein Cap takes on the hordes of Hydra and Rick Jones becomes the new Bucky! A true must for any Marvel collection!
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No gods from outer space could beat this Devil! Jack Kirby crossed into a new cosmos with this crimson carnivore and his faithful sidekick Moonboy! Now, for the first time, Marvel collects the King's saga of Devil Dinosaur in his prehistoric prime! Collects Devil Dinosaur #1-9.
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Devil Dinosaur Collected? Wow!.......2007-09-23
I bought this book. Now honestly their are other characters much more worthy of this hardcover treatment, but Devil Dinosaur has made a big impression on a lot of fans, so there you have it.
Reading them all together you come to a Jack Kirby story that is more straight forward, less melodramatic, than his New Gods saga, and yet he hits you with cosmic concept after cosmic concept.
Rumor was this was a try out for selling a cartoon series, that never came up, but the characters still endure with Devil Dinosaur most recently making an out of character appearance in Nextwave Agents of Hate.
My only regret is that they did not include Devil Dinosaur's cross over with Godzilla, though you could catch it in the Essential Godzilla.
While I loved the story (bought it off the rack as a kid) I'd say this volume is more for the hardcore Kirby fan; though I think if you are willing to gamble the price you will find it worth while.
Time to meet Devil Dinosaur and Moonboy.......2007-08-31
Nothing about this series appealed to me when Marvel first published it. If I noticed it on the comic book spin rack or shelve, I did so only with my peripheral vision.
Marvel published Marvel Monsters in hardcover, and I purchased that collection. The first story featured a fight between the Hulk and Devil Dinosaur.
The Hulk has always been one of my favorite Marvel characters, but in this story the love that Moonboy has for Devil Dinosaur made me love these two characters.
When I learned that Marvel planned to publish an Omnibus of the entire Jack Kirby series, I immediately made plans to buy it. The Omnibus did not disappoint me. I love the artwork, and I like to watch the way Jack Kirby developed this series.
I recommend this to any person that has a love for graphic storytelling. You will enjoy this book as much as I did.
Wonder-full.......2007-08-16
No, the title of this review is NOT a spelling mistake. Jack Kirby's Devil Dinosaur #1 is the very first comic I remember owning and I was 3 or 4 at the time it came out. Up until last year (when a friend sent me #1 - 3) I had never read past the cliffhanger ending of issue #1.
This hardcover version fully restores Devil Dinosaur to glory - there are no speckled dots or faded/ yellowed pages here; the book has never looked better. Of course, this has to look fantastic - it's Jack Kirby (who writes the story as well as completing the art)! Now, granted a book about an ape boy and his dinosaur is not what you typically expect from the more cosmic minded Kirby, but there is plenty of other-worldly action here.
At it's heart this is really a boy and his dog story set in perhistoric times with an ancient human anscestor and a red Tyrannosaurus Rex-like dinosaur taking the place of the usual characters. The enduring bond between Moonboy and Devil is truly the heart of this tale.
There is nothing usual about this book - it's all quirky fun. Devil Dinosaur is every bit as fantastic as I remembered from my youth and now, finally, I get to read the whole story - you should too.
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- Joe Simon & Jack Kirby's Boy's Ranch
- Out of Print, but worth the search!
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Kid Cowboys of Boys Ranch
Joe Simon , and
Jack Kirby
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 087135859X |
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Joe Simon & Jack Kirby's Boy's Ranch.......2007-09-05
Excellent!
This neat little book reprints the complete 6 issue of the Boy's Ranch, written, drawn & inked by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (with assist from Mort Meskin & Marvin Stein), way back in 1950. Printed in beautiful remastered colour.
Boy's Own cowboy adventure in the Wild West, from the creators of Captain America! You just know it's going to be fun!
The book follows the adventures of 4 stray boys, Dandy (the former Union soldier), Wabash (confederate hillbilly), Angel (cherubic hot-tempered sharp-shooter), & Wee Willie Wehawken (the oldest boy at Boys' Ranch), led by Clay Duncan, the epitome of the cowboy hero. (There's also the injun boy, Happy, who wanders in & out of many of the stories).
The stories are classic western adventure tales, with fearless sharp-shooting kids thrown in, but these are not purely kids stories, they're mostly stories about Clay Duncan really, there's even women! And the added fun of a number of 1 page how-to-be-a-cowboy tips covering horse-riding & lassooing! Yeeha!
If you love Simon & Kirby's work, or Cowboy adventures, you'll love this!
Out of Print, but worth the search!.......2002-06-03
It took me 8 years to find this book, but I finally succeeded. This is undoubtedly some of Simon & Kirby's best work. Fast paced, these stories easily stand up with the best comics of any era. Marvel should really reprint this or at least put it out as a trade paperback. It you like westerns or boy adventure stories don't miss this book.
Book Description
Jack Jackson's Comanche Moon is the extraordinary story of Cynthia Ann Parker, a white settler child kidnapped by a band of Comanche Indians in 1836 in Texas. Brought up as a Comanche, she became the wife of a feared Comanche warrior and gave birth to Quanah, a warrior-son who became chief of the Comanches and eventually led them in their last great battles against the relentlessly encroaching white settlers. This is the story of their defeat and the end of the Comanche Nation's dominance of the Texas plains.
Jackson is one of the original figures of the American underground comics movement of the 1960s. Unlike his peers, whose comics celebrated the counterculture, Jackson instead created lively, detailed and historically accurate works that chronicle the bloody, fascinating history around the founding of Texas. Told against a rich backdrop of 19th century life and the complex historical and political conflicts that fueled the brutal wars between Native Americans and settlers, the story of Naduah the white Comanche represents non-fiction comics at its best.
Customer Reviews:
The Last Days Of A Great People.......2006-03-28
This is the finest and most intricate graphic book (not quite a novel) I've ever read. The illustrations reach levels of beauty and artistry seldom seen in this genre of storytelling. Comanche Moon (not to be confused with the Larry McMurtry novel of the same name) tells the end times history of the Comanche peoples, with emphasis on their great leader, Quanah Parker, and his mother, the "white Comanche" Cynthia Ann Parker. The story of the Comanche's' violent way of life, their struggles against the whites in Texas and across the Southwest, and of the brilliant leadership of Quanah Parker, are rendered in a way that provides as much meaningful information to a reader as most text-only tales of the Comanche and the brutal period of the mid-1800's thru the 1870's. This is a great (though often sad and bloody) segment of North American history, and this rapidly-paced, carefully produced graphic re-telling of it is a more than worthy read.
Accurate graphic novel format biography of Quanah Parker.......1998-12-13
Historically accurate biography of Quanah Parker, last Commanche to live free on the LLana Estacata of Texas. Also bio information about his mother Cynthia Ann Parker, a European girl captured and raised by Commanches as their own, later taken back by her white family by force after she had married and had children as a Commanche woman. Lots of information regarding the everyday life of Commanche people. Told in a graphic novel format , the drawing is not particularly beautiful, but the story and accuracy make up for it. My copy is bound in psuedo leather, looks nice. Highly recomended for adults or older adolecents. Especially those who are intellectually curious, who may or may not have trouble with standard written texts.
Book Description
This well focused and perceptive analysis of a phenomenon in our popular culture—the new respectability of the comic book form—argues that the comics medium has a productive tradition of telling true stories with grace and economy. It details vividly the outburst of underground comics in the late 1960s and `70s, whose cadre of artistically gifted creators were committed to writing comic books for adults, an audience they made aware that comic books can offer narratives of great power and technical sophistication.
In this study Joseph Witek examines the rise of the comic book to a position of importance in modern culture and assesses its ideological and historical implications. Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar are among the creators whom Witek credits for the emergence of the comic book as a serious artistic medium. As American codes of ethics, aesthetics, and semiotics have evolved, so too has the comic book as a mode for presenting the weightier matters of history. It is safe to claim that comic books are not just for kids anymore.
Book Description
This informal history of the comic book chronicles, largely in their own words, the lives and careers of the artists and writers who created the most significant and memorable comic books and graphic novels. Stretching from Will Eisner, who started his work in the industry in 1936, to Marjane Satrapi, whose latest graphic novel was published last year, 11 comic book masters are discussed, including Art Spiegelman, Neil Gaiman, Stan Lee, Dwayne McDuffie, Kyle Baker, and Ho Che Anderson. Amazing stories of how these artists and writers fell in love with the genre and built up their careers are coupled with never-before-disclosed anecdotes and previously unpublished self-portraits that will surprise even the most knowledgeable fans.
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