18 Friday Jan 2013
Posted in science fiction
Treat yourself today to four double-splashes from issues #2-5 of Jack Kirby’s 1970s masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey! Do we need to wax ecstatic with eloquent exposition about these pulsating pages? Probably not. Kirby’s artwork speaks for itself!
Collector’s Guide: From 2001: A Space Odyssey; Marvel, 1976.
17 Thursday Jan 2013
Posted in science fiction
Splash after splash after splash — you know we never get tired of them here on Mars! Today we transmit to you five splash pages from the first seven issues of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Jack Kirby.
Collector’s Guide: From 2001: A Space Odyssey; Marvel, 1976.
16 Wednesday Jan 2013
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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.
22 Tuesday May 2012
Posted in first issue, science fiction
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2001 A Space Odyssey, 2001: A Space Odyssey Treasury, Beast Killer, first issue, Jack Kirby, Monolith, New Seed, prehistoric mammals
Jack Kirby’s first stab at adapting Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey won’t even fit on our scanner. It’s the Marvel Treasury Edition of 2001 and stays pretty faithful to the movie. After its success, Marvel gave Jack Kirby free reign to continue the story in his own cosmic way.
For the first 7 issues, Kirby takes human beings and transforms them into “New Seeds,” the interstellar babies that Dave becomes at the end of the movie. At the Jack Kirby Museum, they theorize this was Kirby’s coming to grips with death as yet another stage of human transformation, rather than the pointless tragedy he witnessed first hand on the battlefields of World War II.
That may be the case. We don’t know for sure. But we do know that these 2001 stories rock! Where do we sign up for the monolith transformation?! And dig all these awesome prehistoric mammals Kirby threw into the mix in issue one! Enjoy “Beast Killer!”
Collector’s Guide: From 2001: A Space Odyssey; Marvel, 1976.
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