Kirby covers! Lots of them!

[Art]

kirby DC kover kollecktion...

Link: http://datajunkie.blogspot.com/2007/05/kirby-dc-kover-kollecktion.html" target="_blank">http://datajunkie.blogspot.com/2007/05/kirby-dc-ko

[Art]

Oooh... I need this.

Also: introduction by Grant Morrison.

Link: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/04/jack_kirbys_fourth_w.html" target="_blank">http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/04/jack_kirbys_f

[I, Cosh]

So, is that where Darkseid comes from originally?

[Art]

Pretty much.

Beleive it or not he first appeared in "Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen".

Link: http://www.geocities.com/mbrown123/greatest_comics/jimmyolsen134.html" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.com/mbrown123/greatest_comics

[Byron Virgo]

Oooh - Fourth World compendium does sound a rather groovy prospect!

Nice as those covers are though, I have to admit that I was hoping for some of the lunacy of the Kirby/Ayers giant monster covers for Atlas-Timely, which are pretty damn hard to beat in the pure, unadulterated mentalness stakes:

Link: http://theimaginaryworld.com/marvmonsters.html" target="_blank">"The THING" is here!

[JOE SOAP]

as for another classic...

I believe Jonathan Ross is doin' a documentary on Steve Ditko for BBC 4 TV, he's even interviewed Ditko himself.

[DavidXBrunt]

Well, he's spoken to him...

[Dudley]

...at him...

[Byron Virgo]

Yeah, Ditko isn't actually interviewed for the documentary itself, so I was told from someone in the know...