Here’s a 1967 Jack Kirby drawing of Spider-Man. Erik Larson shared this on the Kirby Fan Club Facebook page and had some interesting quotes about Kirby’s Spider-Man.
“Kirby always gets Spider-Man’s costume wrong–sometimes gloriously so!”
“The Spider-Man on Kirby’s Amazing Fantasy cover was no doubt fixed by Ditko. There’s a reason Ditko always inked Kirby’s Spider-Man stuff early on and Romita did later on.”
Bob Larkin! That’s the guy from yesterday’s picture. Thanks to the commenters who clarified that for me.
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Skottie Young has Spidey keep his “pressing engagement” with Gwen. What, never seen Goldfinger?
on Panel(s) of the Day #1610 (Mary Jane Monday!): “At least he said “I have to go take photos for the Bugle.” This is a valid excuse since this…” Nov 5, 04:26 on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “Yep, as I predicted, Paul is here to stay. Marvel want Peter and MJ apart, and Paul is the story…” Nov 4, 17:43 on Panel(s) of the Day #1610 (Mary Jane Monday!): “Wow, Peter actually said, “I done blame her.”” Nov 4, 13:28 on Panel of the Day #1609 (Splash Page Sunday!): “Who knew Peter had a skirt in his closet made out of webbing?” Nov 4, 07:43 on Panel(s) of the Day #1608 (Ditko!): “Peter is so upset that he forgot his own hyphen. Twice! And he also referred to himself as “The” Spiderman.” Nov 4, 04:28 on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “@Joshua Nelson: At this point I don’t expect Marvel to have Peter tell Aunt May that he’s Spider-Man. If they…” Nov 3, 00:40 on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “@Kenneth: I wasn’t even thinking about her health but you’re right. But just from the years of May making wheatcakes…” Nov 3, 00:36 on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “@Dark Mark: Yeah, this issue really felt like an epilogue and not the final issue of a story. One issue…” Nov 3, 00:35 on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “Well…it’s over. Like most, I have not liked this run. At all. There are plenty of things I can critique…” Nov 2, 18:13
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In a historical sense, that’s a cool drawing though. Although I’ve always found it mind boggling that one of the greatest comic book artists of all time could not draw a decent Spider-Man to save his life. Just goest to show that even the best of the best aren’t always perfect.
I guess we should all be thankful that Stan Lee recognized that Kirby wasn’t the right artist for the wall-crawler, or the history Marvel might have been very different.
Being the talented artist Jack Kirby was and how he could draw such intricate costumes such as on the New Gods and complicated machinery with such ease and majesticity, it’s always baffled me why he could never get Spider-Man’s costume right. Was he unable to? Just not interested? Not his forté? We’re talking about KING KIRBY here!
The mask sort of looks like the helmet of the Spider-Man suit from Ends of the Earth.
Great bit of history.