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Police Trap #2 by Jack Kirby

Artist: Jack Kirby (Penciller)

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Title:	Police Trap #2 by Jack Kirby
Artist:	Jack Kirby (Penciller)
Media Type:	Ink Wash
Art Type:	Pin Up
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,705
Likes on CAF:	4 5
Comments:	7
Added to Site:	3/14/2006
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Description

This art is actually composed of three pieces of illustration board. If you look closely you should be able to see seams just above and just below the illustration art. This puzzled me at first since I have never seen any other Simon and Kirby art constructed in this manner. Then it occurred to me that the art itself was originally intended as cover art but for whatever reason they decided not to use it for that purpose. The published cover art for the first two Police Trap issues are equally as good. But unlike the published covers, the art in this piece has more speech balloons. If excessive text was what made this art unsuitable as a cover, it was a strength when used as a pinup. So they cut off the original cover title and replaced it with the upper text portion. The original bottom of the art did not enough room for the text they wanted, so it was also cut off and replaced. In the end the art as a pinup is IMO better than it would have been as a cover.

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Aaron N.
Member Since 2009

Posted on 7/19/2014

This is unbelievably great.

Jean Andre Macchini
Member Since 2006

Posted on 3/20/2018

Very nice ! Congrats !

Michael One Minute Later
Member Since 2005

Posted on 10/28/2018

Kirby - splash - what is there not to like

Bill J
Member Since 2009

Posted on 8/15/2019

Awesome! Great splash!

E DLS
Member Since 2005

Posted on 11/23/2020

I really love the layers of depth in this piece. From the two officers in the foreground, to the busy scene at the desk, to the small group in the hallway. Just a masterful drawing by The King.

Mark Howland
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 10/15/2021

Seams aside, such great faces. And so many of them.

CJ Design
Member Since 2018

1 - Posted on 7/8/2023

An iconoic jewel

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