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Jack Kirby: Young Romance 18 page 8

Owner: Mark Howland
Artist: Jack Kirby (All)

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Title:	Jack Kirby: Young Romance 18 page 8
Artist:	Jack Kirby (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
Views:	844
Likes on CAF:	13 14
Added to Site:	1/31/2023

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Golden Age Kirby

How much romance can a guy take? With dialogue such as this�??

�I wasn�t just a throaty voice in a clinging gown! I was a woman in love�with a giving heart and soft, eager lips!�

And in terms of the art, Kirby delivers with embracing and/or kissing in all but the last panel. Look at all the little storytelling details he drew into this page: the lean of the bus driver and the flying rider-bodies, hats, and hair in panel one; the guy restoring his suitcase in panel two; the black background of panel three, highlighting the foreground clutch; and the bemused face of the passenger sitting behind the suddenly amorous couple in panel five, as well as Buddy�s surprised-off-the-back hands in the same panel when Stormy re-kisses him.

In the 1940s and 50s Simon and Kirby�s Young Romance put romance comics on the map. This page is from the story �Just No Good,� and - in my opinion - it is the best page of the fourteen-page lot.

Early Kirby is special, and the penciling and inking - and likely the writing, too - on this page are all courtesy of the King. Thanks to Bechara of Nostalgic Investments!

P.S. Quiz Question: Can you spot Stormy�s leg? Hint: Give panel two a close look.

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