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Comics Are Awesome #34

by | April 24, 2010 @ 7:39 AM | 13 Comments |

Tales of Suspense 29

No jokes this week. This is just plain awesome.

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13 Comments

Lord Paradise

April 24, 2010 at 7:50 am

Pretty much.

stealthwise

April 24, 2010 at 7:54 am

Is that Kirby?

gustav

April 24, 2010 at 8:22 am

it was a lot more awesome when Brainiac did it…

George

April 24, 2010 at 9:09 am

Apparently he took away the sky and made the earth hollow too…

Zombie X

April 24, 2010 at 9:49 am

That really looks like Kirby. (The monster, the complex buildings, maybe 1960 or so))

And that is awesome.

Rob III

April 24, 2010 at 10:45 am

Has to be Kirby. The Martian reminds me of early versions of The Thing

Zombie X

April 24, 2010 at 11:01 am

And not too far away from the monster on FF #1.

Jack Santino

April 24, 2010 at 12:25 pm

When did comics go to 12 cents? 1961? Can’t be an earlier than that, but Iron Man hasn’t taken over Suspense yet. So `961-63, probably. Kirby looking very good here, I think.

Jack Santino

April 24, 2010 at 12:26 pm

The Martian does look very much like the early Thing, so it probably predates FF #1. That must narrow date of publication pretty much.

Bill Reed

April 24, 2010 at 12:39 pm

According to the Grand Comics Database, it’s penciled by Kirby, inked by Ditko, and published in February 1962.

Luis Dantas

April 24, 2010 at 12:49 pm

It is TS #29, while Iron Man debuted in #39 (cover dated April 1963). Wikipedia claims that #1 was dated January 1959, #9 was May 1960 (hinting of a bimonthly format) and #38 was August 1962, so this #29 would appear to be from sometime in 1961. But see below.

Also, the Mile High Comics info tells us that the story itself is by Lee and Kirby, so the cover is indeed probably his.

The GCD believes this to be a Kirby cover as well. And claims a vendor-arrival date of February 1962, incidentally (which looks just about right). The wikipedia info about #38 being from 1962 must be wrong.

http://www.comics.org/issue/16939/

http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=bibliography&issue=85556731898%2029

jjc

April 24, 2010 at 4:43 pm

62? So it’s almost time for them to bring him back to help take down Thanos.

Travis Pelkie

April 25, 2010 at 6:44 pm

What’s coolest is that the Martian seems to have dug the city up with his hand, and is now tossing it into the air. THAT’S how you steal a city!

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