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jack kirby was not lowly!

i wouldn't be an artist if it wasn't for his influence, i'd be working for a multi-national, earning 6 figures, driving a lebaron...

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jack kirby was not lowly!

i wouldn't be an artist if it wasn't for his influence, i'd be working for a multi-national, earning 6 figures, driving a lebaron...

jack kirby taught me how to read, and write, and draw.
this man is my hero!

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18 years before viking 1 took the first photos of "the face" in the cydonia region on mars, before anyone had any idea of this being up there jack kirby wrote and illustrated this comic!

the cover is from a september, 1958, harvey comic book series, issue #2, entitled "race for the moon." the eeriely predictive blurb (moon ... mars, anyone?) says it all:

"report from moon to mars expedition '1':

"upon reaching red planet, made discovery of startling nature � initial study of object now under way; have measured its dimensions; analyzed its substance; present objective is to find out the secret of --

"the face on mars..."

the synopsis from kirby's "face on mars" holds the crucial clues:

"the face on mars", penciled by jack kirby and inked by al williamson. -- on an expedition from the earth's moon to the planet mars, an international team of astronauts -- led by american ben fisher -- discover a huge carving of a martian face -- that's as big as a mountain! ascending to the inscrutable statue's hollow eyes, fisher plunges inside, where he finds a green, sunlit countryside with cool, rich and breathable air, one which shelters a civilization of 'magnificent giants.' suddenly, the otherworldly city is attacked by insect-like airborne craft, which bomb the giant's homeland into ruins. outraged, fisher blasts away at the potato-like invaders who emerge from the landing aircraft, offering them a taste of their own 'medicine.' appalled by the wanton destruction, fisher eventually locates a hidden stronghold of the surviving members of the race of martian giants. as he eavesdrops, the earthman sees one of them pilot a rocket to destroy their enemy's home base, an unknown planet located somewhere between mars and jupiter! suddenly, fisher begins to gasp for breath! blacking out as he falls into oblivion, fisher eventually awakens on the floor of the martian desert, with an oxygen mask strapped to his face, while his expedition-mates hover over him. fisher explains that the statue [the face on mars] contains 'a visual history of a race's heroic death -- and the triumph of a surviving memory'. later, as they pilot their rocket to jupiter, to earth, fisher and his team take careful notice of the debris-strewn asteroid belt -- 'the pieces of a planet that blew up between mars and jupiter ...'"

so, how does a lowly "comic artist" in the 1950's become privy to the greatest secret in the history of man ... before it could be known?!

http://radio.weblogs.com/0123486/2006/03/25.html
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