Kirby (Bad News, to the world of Comics!...)

Harry Fluks H.W.Fluks at research.ptt.nl
Wed Feb 9 13:16:26 CET 1994


Gil Milburn (at last! I thought you were gone. Did you receive my mail, Gil?):

> Comic book creator Jack Kirby, age 76, died on Sunday, Feb. 6, 1994.

Fredrik:

> About the Disney connection, I seem to remember a discussion here
> a while ago that Kirby DID draw a few Disney strips. Can anyone
> confirm/deny this?

On 3 November 1993, I wrote:
 
> Jack Kirby
> ~~~~~~~~~~
> Mark asked why he is in the 'creators' file. Well, in fact, that
> file also covers the creators in the "classics" index. The Classic stories
> were newspaper stories, often reprinted in One Shots and other comics.
> In 1980, Kirby did the pencils of "The Black Hole" (story Fallberg,
> inks Royer). That's the only Kirby entry though.

I typed in that 'classics' file from a photocopy of a newspaper strips index
by Becattini. A lot of those newspaper sequels were reprinted in Holland.

--Harry.



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