Saturday, July 16, 2022

Today in Comics History, July 16, 1945: United States military explodes the first Kirby Bomb

This is an expanded and updated version of a post originally published July 16, 2016.



from Marvel Treasury Special Featuring Captain America's Bicentennial Battles #1 one-shot (Marvel, September 1976), script and pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by John Verpoorten, colors by Phil Rachelson, letters by John Costanza

And guess who else was there?


from You Are Deadpool #5 (Marvel, July 2018), script by Al Ewing, pencils and inks by Salva Espin, colors by Guru-eFX, letters by Joe Sabino

Whadda you have to say about this, cast of The Invisibles?




from The Invisibles (1997 series) #2 (DC/Vertigo, March 1997), script by Grant Morrison, pencils by Phil Jimenez, inks by John Stokes, colors by Daniel Vozzo, letters by Todd Klein

"I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds." — Robert Oppenheimer


from Real Life Comics #29 (DC, March 1946), creators uncredited and unknown

2 comments:

-- MrJM said...

"Fortunately, there is no way this terrible power could ever fall into the hands of creeps or no-goodniks."

-- MrJM

EAG46 said...

That caption under the explosion...wow. Sometimes I forget that Jack was almost as good of an author as he was an artist.