The Photo
The Spread
Everett Easter Eggs
Location: Mainstream
Artists:
Jack Kirby
(Penciller)
,
Bill Everett
(Inker)
,
Sam Rosen
(Letterer)
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What a fabulous Jack Kirby splash to acquire! And your personal connnection to it only makes it sweeter! Congratulations!
Wow!!! Mighty!!! You are a lucky man.
You made the right decision by far to do everything posible to get this page - congrats!
Oh my!
A superb Kirby Thor splash! Congratulations!
Congratulations on completing the spread. The splash itself is gorgeous.
fantastic splash congrats
Killer!
Huge congrats on being able to get the art to match the great picture of you and the King.
Great page - great personal story (the Thor story is good too)
Thank you, Ron!
I've drooled over your Wrecker splash for a while now (not to mention literally everything else in your collection).
Wonderful Title Page, congratulations
Great pair of Kirbys! Great story! And (if it's possible) even greater shot of you and The King!!
Very happy for you! Meant to be.
Amazing Kirby splash, even better story! Congrats on this monumental collecting goal!
Now that's quite nice!
Major congrats, John! As a fan who also has a decades-long collecting goal of reuniting an Everett-inked sequence that I've loved since childhood, I applaud your success in making this happen. FWIW, I think the auction price for this Kirby/Everett splash was reasonable, and it's great to see the page coming home to the collection that loves it. It's true that every time a comic art collector acquires a long sought grail, you hear a bell, and an angel gets his wings.
Thanks Drake! FWIW, one person's "reasonable" is another's "anxiety induced chronic insomnia."
Haha, but still, no regrets.
Wow whatta reat story! All the time I spent with the Kirby's and I never thought to take a picture!
HUGE congrats!
Thanks Len. I wish I'd been old enough for it to occur to me to buy some art off him!
I think I was 28, in the late 80's when we started visiting the Kirby's and buying art.
I was wondering, if you only met him once, how did u get the picture signed?
Roz snapped the photo, and then about a month later he sent me a package with the photo, a note, and a Captain Victory lithograph and blew my little mind. Has there been anyone better than Jack Kirby!??!
1 + 1 = 3 Pretty cool how the pagination created this special meaning for you - congrats on the acquisition...you could make quite the display with the pages and the Kirby memorabilia!
Mark, seems like you are very knowledgable about Bill Everett. Any idea on the "Judy Ann Taylor/Roman" meaning on all of these Thor issues?
Your posting piqued my interest so I asked the best expert - Wendy Everett. Her gracious response:
...Several years after my mother died, my father had a relationship with a woman named Judy Roman (Taylor may have been her maiden name – she was divorced with younger children) ...mystery solved!
Wow. Incredible. Thank you so much for digging into that, that's amazing!
A very very big congrats! I was thinking about you when this came up and hoped it would end up in your collection. I am extremely happy for you on achieving this major collecting goal!
Thanks Ricky, couldn'thavehappened without you, bud!
Dont mess with the Wrecker. Congrats Johnny boy!
One of the most beautiful title page on Thor...with a stunning inking ! Thanks for sharing
Kirby and Everett! WOW! Congrats!
Wow! Magnificent page.
Beautiful splash - a great acquisition. Thanks for sharing it.
What a great page!
Great pièce by the legendary masters !!