John Whitlock UNITED STATES
Member Since June 2016
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Gallery Comments by John Whitlock

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Jack Kirby Collector 43 cover , Comic Art
Jack Kirby Collector 43 cover
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commented posted on 12/20/2022

sheeeesh

Jack Kirby - Silver Star #4 Splash, Comic Art
Jack Kirby - Silver Star #4 Splash
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commented posted on 10/25/2022
Phill R said:

I wonder if the No Stan[ding] sign is intentional. It's a hell of a powerful, dynamic Kirby splash either way!!

I like to think it was intentional, but who knows. Interestingly, just those letters "No Stan" are inked in a different ink (almost looks like marker/pen) than the rest of the page which is typical brush work. Would love to ask Mike Royer about that one day.

Benjamin Marra - Southern Cross #1, Variant Cover, Comic Art
Benjamin Marra - Southern Cross #1, Variant Cover
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commented posted on 9/13/2022
Marcus Wai said:

I like the Kirby infuences for the future facades and pipes.  It reminds us of the Kirby street scenes he used to do of old New York.  Marra's imagination goes wild and creates this world that tells a full story.  The rampant drug use, hookers, and the ships up above all frame the innocent fish out of water at the center of all this.

Haha, fish out of water for sure! Definite Kirby/SPAIN love child going on here 

2001:  A Space Odyssey #1 page 6 by Kirby and Royer, Comic Art
2001: A Space Odyssey #1 page 6 by Kirby and Royer
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commented posted on 9/12/2022

we hunger too!! awesome dawn of man page.

Czarface: A Fistful of Peril cover artwork by Ben Marra (2016), Comic Art
Czarface: A Fistful of Peril cover artwork by Ben Marra (2016)
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commented posted on 8/26/2022

awesome cover!

1975 Comic Art Convention Program Silver Surfer Pencil Cover , Comic Art
1975 Comic Art Convention Program Silver Surfer Pencil Cover
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commented posted on 5/18/2021

oh man, this is awesome. i have that program and always admire how awesome the cover is. you are lucky!

Our Fighting Forces 159, pages 2 + 3 (DPS), Comic Art
Our Fighting Forces 159, pages 2 + 3 (DPS)
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commented posted on 12/16/2020

this is so good! and was prob very personal subject matter for Jack!

Destroyer Duck #4 Cover Original Art - Jack Kirby, Comic Art
Destroyer Duck #4 Cover Original Art - Jack Kirby
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commented posted on 12/16/2020

awesome series, awesome cover!

Silver Surfer Graphic Novel, page 16, Comic Art
Silver Surfer Graphic Novel, page 16
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commented posted on 12/16/2020

incredible. definitely the right choice! 

Silver Star #4 p.7, Comic Art
Silver Star #4 p.7
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commented posted on 7/21/2020

nice one!

Steve Ditko-Mr. A Cover, Comic Art
Steve Ditko-Mr. A Cover
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commented posted on 3/8/2020

Amazing! Maybe the only good thing ever derived from Ayn Rand.

Jack Kirby - Eternals 11 - page 14 splash - Celestials, Comic Art
Jack Kirby - Eternals 11 - page 14 splash - Celestials
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commented posted on 2/25/2020

This is so awesome. 

Kirby/ Colletta Jimmy Olsen 135, pg 5, Comic Art
Kirby/ Colletta Jimmy Olsen 135, pg 5
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commented posted on 1/29/2020

sweet third panel! 

Silver Star 3 double splash    Kirby, Comic Art
Silver Star 3 double splash Kirby
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commented posted on 1/21/2020

awesome slow-mo splash! I love some indie Kirby

The Bus, Comic Art
The Bus
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commented posted on 1/7/2020

very nice, i was looking at this for a while myself

Amazing Spider-Man #10 Page #5 by Steve Ditko in memory of Herc Fede, Comic Art
Amazing Spider-Man #10 Page #5 by Steve Ditko in memory of Herc Fede
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commented posted on 1/6/2020

Incredible page! That second panel is so classic, but that last panel of vignettes is suuuuper cool, very Ditko! 

New Gods # 11 pg 1, Comic Art
New Gods # 11 pg 1
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commented posted on 1/3/2020

What a beauty! (or beast??)
I was watching this one too!

Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Title Splash, Comic Art
Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Title Splash
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commented posted on 1/3/2020
Mark Levy said:

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!

Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Title Splash, Comic Art
Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Title Splash
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commented posted on 1/3/2020
Canadian Collector said:

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!

Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Title Splash, Comic Art
Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Title Splash
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commented posted on 1/3/2020
Mark Levy said:

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?

Jack Kirby Silver Surfer pg. 2 splash, Comic Art
Jack Kirby Silver Surfer pg. 2 splash
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commented posted on 1/3/2020

Probably the single best Surfer image of all time. So cool that you have it, and better yet, got to experience it in the Kirby residence. 

Everett Grail: Sub-Mariner 57 Cover with Venus, Comic Art
Everett Grail: Sub-Mariner 57 Cover with Venus
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commented posted on 1/3/2020

Sheeeeesh, what a beautiful cover!!

Kirby / Everett Thor 174 p13, Comic Art
Kirby / Everett Thor 174 p13
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commented posted on 1/3/2020

That's a beautiful pair of pages. I particlarly like this less action packed one. So cool to see Jack and Bill's urban renderings... that police car make's a great panel!  

Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Title Splash, Comic Art
Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Title Splash
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commented posted on 1/3/2020
LEN CALLO said:

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!??!

Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Title Splash, Comic Art
Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Title Splash
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commented posted on 1/3/2020
LEN CALLO said:

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!

Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Title Splash, Comic Art
Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Title Splash
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commented posted on 1/3/2020
Sean Clarke said:

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.  

Journey into Mystery #110, Page 1, Comic Art
Journey into Mystery #110, Page 1
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commented posted on 1/2/2020

This may be one of the best Kirby Thor pages I've ever seen!
Chic Stone was really something.

Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Title Splash, Comic Art
Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Title Splash
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commented posted on 1/2/2020
Ron S said:

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).

Spectacular Spider-Man #101 Cover, Comic Art
Spectacular Spider-Man #101 Cover
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commented posted on 1/2/2020

This is a really stylish cover, i was watching this auction with envy!

Silver Surfer 18 p.1 splash Jack Kirby/Trimpe, Comic Art
Silver Surfer 18 p.1 splash Jack Kirby/Trimpe
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commented posted on 1/2/2020

Incredible splash!! Not sure how I'm just seeing this page, but it rules hard! 

Jack Kirby - Thor 148 - title splash, Comic Art
Jack Kirby - Thor 148 - title splash
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commented posted on 1/2/2020

this is a stunning splash! captures everything I love about Kirby Thor art and some top notch work form Coletta on this one too! 

Jack Kirby & Chic Stone, The Thing Pin-Up, Comic Art
Jack Kirby & Chic Stone, The Thing Pin-Up
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commented posted on 1/2/2020

There's maybe one better Kirby pinup I can think of, and I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up on this page in February. Damn that's nice! 

Romita--Amazing Spider-Man #70 Cover (1968), Comic Art
Romita--Amazing Spider-Man #70 Cover (1968)
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commented posted on 1/2/2020

There cannot be a more iconic image of Spider Man. Holy guacamole. Beautiful.

Not Safe for Work
Oscar Bazaldua/ Guillermo Peimbert Chavez
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commented posted on 12/3/2019

really enjoying this collection... it's also awesomethat you have like 500 of these. haha. I know i'll be collecting these comics on my next Mexico City trip!

Not Safe for Work
Oscar Bazaldua/Guillermo Peimbert Chavex - Pistolero #139 2007
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commented posted on 12/3/2019

these are really great

Kirby, Jack/Romita, John -- Kazar #12, Comic Art
Kirby, Jack/Romita, John -- Kazar #12
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commented posted on 10/21/2019

always loved this cover and how angular Kirby made Ka-Zar look!

KIRBY  The Demon  1973, Comic Art
KIRBY The Demon 1973
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commented posted on 10/15/2019

perfect Demon page! 

Sky Masters of the Space Force (11-8-58) by Kirby & Wood, Comic Art
Sky Masters of the Space Force (11-8-58) by Kirby & Wood
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commented posted on 10/5/2019

Kirby/Wood, twice as nice! 

 Jack Kirby Silver Surfer soaring the cosmic skies 1974 Pencil twice up masterpiece, Comic Art
Jack Kirby Silver Surfer soaring the cosmic skies 1974 Pencil twice up masterpiece
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commented posted on 6/19/2019

Holy moly, incredible piece! Don't know how I missed this when it was first posted...

Kirby - Captain Victory #3 p.4-5, Comic Art
Kirby - Captain Victory #3 p.4-5
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commented posted on 3/1/2019

Awesome late Kirby tech spread! Some great, weird art in Captain Victory!

Tales of Suspense 33, page 8 (1962)- “I was trapped in the chamber of fear!”, Comic Art
Tales of Suspense 33, page 8 (1962)- “I was trapped in the chamber of fear!”
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commented posted on 1/15/2019

always loved this page, was eyeing it myself for a while! Congrats. 

JUDGE DREDD: Eagle Comics #17 cover, Comic Art
JUDGE DREDD: Eagle Comics #17 cover
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commented posted on 1/15/2019

amazing! 

Rip Kirby 9-9-52, Comic Art
Rip Kirby 9-9-52
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commented posted on 1/10/2019

Nice one... very grim (but iconic) first and last panels

Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Page 2 , Comic Art
Jack Kirby - Thor #171 Page 2
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commented posted on 1/9/2019
Canadian Collector said:

One of the best Kirby Thor/Everett pages IMO. But even a better story to go with it. Glad this page found a nice home. Congrats!

I am glad it did too! Thanks again Ricky.