Monday, March 10, 2025

Strange Tales #132 Cover by Steve Ditko

.............and the cover in our dimension, as mostly done by Jack Kirby.  Odd thing is, I love the cover Jack did 2 issues earlier (specially w/o the Torch and Thing as Beatles), but the Kirby part of 132s cover  may be my least fav art ever
A day later (and a dollar shorter) here's the page from whence came the mock-up, and that same story's splash, also rock'n the magic bolts and contorted fingers and groovy little statues










 

3 comments:

  1. As an obsessive comics fan I have to ask about the corner box on that unused cover. My thought was it looked like Steranko Nick Fury, but that wouldn't be happening for a couple more years.

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    1. Not Steranko I'm sure, although I see it now that you said it. This is from at least a decade ago, so I'm clueless, but a talented individual was post'n all kinds of beautiful mock-ups of what shoulda been. My guess is that box is from Mysterious Traveller, but IDK

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  2. I agree with this. Kirby did not use the Ditko style magic beam that denotes magic in use but ..wavy lines..ugh. I re-read the ST #132, written by Larry Ivie was actually pretty good, much different than a Stan Lee story.

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