13 COVERS! JACK KIRBY & THE THING — It’s CHANUKAH TIME!

Chanukah is upon is and we celebrate the Festival of Lights with the King and the Thing

The Kirbys' 1976 Chanukah card

The Kirbys’ 1976 Chanukah card

It’s not all that easy to come up with 13 Chanukah covers, y’know? It’s not like there are dozens of options to choose from. So putting my thinking yarmulke on, it hit me — or should I say, it clobbered me: What better way to do it than with Ya’akov Kurtzburg’s Ben Grimm, the most prominent Jewish superhero?

So once you’ve finished carving last year’s wax out of the menorah, light fresh candles, spin a dreidel — and check out these 13 COVERS!

Jack Kirby/Chic Stone

Jack Kirby/Chic Stone

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/Joe Sinnott

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/George Roussos

Kirby/George Roussos

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/Vince Colletta

Kirby/Vince Colletta

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/Sinnott

Kirby/Sol Brodsky

Kirby/Sol Brodsky

Kirby Sinnott

Kirby Sinnott

Cover images and credits from the fantastic Grand Comics Database.

Author: Dan Greenfield

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