KIRBY SEARCHES FOR SILVER AGE FLAIR

books:


	• Captain America by Jack Kirby, Vol. 2: Bicentennial Battles Jack Kirby Marvel Comics, 2005 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
	for more information click here

KIRBY SEARCHES FOR SILVER AGE FLAIR

Back in the mid-1970's, Jack Kirby would return to the character that he had co-created, Captain America. Now comic hype was nowhere near what it is today. There was no internet...no magazines like Wizard, and yet the news of Kirby returning to Captain America was highly anticipated, even by a 13 year old kid like me! Heck, anything had to be better than the art of Frank Robbins who had been doing Cap for sometime Prior to Kirby's return. I believe Kirby made his return around issue #194, as Steve Rogers, who had quit being Captain America to become Nomad, once again donned the red, white, and blue to battle the Red Skull.

This run of Kirby, and specifically the issues in this book have very much the look and feel of Kirby's great work of the 1960's from Tales of Suspense. They only problem was that this was no longer the mid-1960's it was now the mid-1970's. Younger, hotter artists had first begun to really push the industry in the early 1970's. Guys like Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Mike Kaluta, and others had ushered in a new era of gritty realism in comic art, and Steranko had done it on Captain America, albeit in a very limited run. And by this time John Buscema had really become the house artist at Marvel who others followed after, just as Kirby had been in the 1960's.

These Captain America stories have that 60's innocence about them and for nostalgia buffs and fans of Kirby, they will no doubt enjoy this book. But while I am a big Kirby fan there's no doubt that some of his dynamics were a bit lacking by this time. Still, it was great to see Kirby on Cap again after so many years.

for more information click here

Cap goes cosmic in this collection of the King's comics! See the Living Legend and the high-flying Falcon fight monsters and madmen in a dimension of disaster, then follow up by fighting a futuristic phantom! Finally, accompany Cap on a tour of history conveyed by the curious Contemplator! Collects Captain America #201-205 and Bicentennial Battles #1.