13 DAYS OF KIRBY 100: When 13 COVERS just won’t do…
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Welcome to 13 DAYS OF KIRBY 100, our celebration of Jack Kirby’s centennial. For the complete 13 DAYS OF KIRBY 100 Index of stories and features, including essays by the likes of Mike Allred, Dave Gibbons, Marie Severin, Kelley Jones and many others, click here.
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Normally, our birthday shtick is salute a creator with 13 COVERS on a particular subject.
This is not a normal birthday celebration.
No, for Jack Kirby’s centennial, we present 100 COVERS, covering Marvel, DC and many other publishers. Only one other creator’s gotten this treatment here at 13th Dimension: DC’s Julius Schwartz, on his centennial two years ago. (Click here.)
Now, I want to make it clear that this is not a definitive Top 100 list. These also aren’t ranked in any order (except the top one, which is my favorite). These are simply 100 of my favorites, so this is at heart a highly subjective list. I’m willing to wager you’ll have a favorite, or a cover of historical significance, that’s not included below. That’s cool. Feel free to add it in the comments below or in whichever social-media thread you found this.
What’s important is the art and the impact.
So, here we go with 100 COVERS to celebrate Jack Kirby, who would have been 100 on Aug. 28:
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Mike Royer inks
George Klein inks
Don Heck or Frank Giacoia inks
Dick Ayers inks
Joe Sinnott inks
Don Heck inks
Sol Brodsky or Frank Giacoia inks
George Roussos inks
Frank Giacoia inks
Steve Ditko inks
Bill Everett inks
Syd Shores inks
Sinnott inks
Mike Thibodeaux inks
Vince Colletta inks
Joe Simon inks
Assists from Marie Severin, John Romita, Frank Giacoia
Mike Royer inks
Ayers inks
Colletta inks
George Klein inks
Chic Stone inks
Josef Rubinstein inks
Royer inks
Sol Brodsky inks
Dick Ayers inks
Dick Ayers inks
Ayers inks
Sinnott inks
Syd Shores inks
Joe Sinnott
D. Bruce Berry inks
Steve Ditko inks
Heck inks
Brodsky inks
Mike Thibodeaux inks
Vince Colletta inks
Royer inks
Steve Ditko inks
Brodsky inks
Vince Colletta inks
Shores and Sinnott inks
Joe Simon inks
Brodsky inks
Royer inks
Sinnott inks
Shores inks
Colletta inks
John Severin inks
Royer inks
Brodsky inks
Simon inks
Brodsky inks
Royer inks
Brodsky inks
Royer inks
Ayers inks
Sinnott inks
Mike Esposito inks
Sinnott inks
Dan Adkins or Giacoia inks
Neal Adams inks
Roussos inks
Sinnott inks
Royer inks
Ayers inks
Royer inks
Stone inks
Neal Adams inks
Possibly Simon inks
Chic Stone inks
Giacoia inks
Possible Royer inks
Royer inks
Ayers inks
Royer inks
Giacoia inks
Colletta inks
Berry inks
Giacoia inks
Wood inks
Royer inks
Royer inks
Stone inks
Royer inks
Greg Theakston inks
Neal Adams inks
Wally Wood inks
Royer inks
Ayers inks
Royer inks
Giacoia partial inks
Ayers or Brodsky inks
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All scans courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.
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August 28, 2017
Love the 100. Have 67 of them. What memories those images bring back. “LONG LIVE THE KINGS MEMORY”.
August 29, 2017
Great selections, thank you. But I’m lost. Thor #114. FF #60. Tales of Suspense #96, and any Super Adaptoid covers. And perhaps the greatest of them all….HULK #1.Not because they’re old. But because they’re stunning, vivid and tell the story in one image. Did I miss some of these. Cheers
August 29, 2020
You also left off the cover of FF #64 with the Kree Sentry facing off the Fantastic Four. It was the 1st comic I bought with my own money & I read and reread it until it fell apart. Years later, I bought a replacement for $12.00 – used the difference between the 12 cent cover price & the going price to show my dad that comics were worth collecting. It is still one of my all-time favorite comic covers.