Before your very eyes arise the title pages from issues #2-7 of Jack Kirby’s late 1970s masterwork, 2001: A Space Odyssey! Kirby took the themes of Stanley Kubrick’s movie as a starting point for seriously trippy flights of imagination. Should you own them all? We can’t imagine any being in deep contact with the cosmos wouldn’t want to!
Collector’s Guide:
- From 2001: A Space Odyssey; Marvel, 1976.
January 16th, 2013 at 7:01 am
Looks like Kirk and Sulu in the Intergalactica splash
January 20th, 2013 at 4:43 pm
Those are totally Star Trek shirts. Good catch!
January 16th, 2013 at 11:28 am
[...] Jack Kirby’s mid-1970s return to Marvel Comics was a mixed blessing. It was nice to see Jack back at the comics company that he helped to build, and the King did produce some imaginative work in this period. I enjoyed Kirby’s idiosyncratic take on Black Panther, and the Eternals got off to a promising start before untimely cancellation consigned another Kirby cosmic space epic to the dustbin of history. And of course there was Devil Dinosaur, Machine Man, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. [...]