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Kirby Is Mighty!
Kirby imagined modern mythologies that spanned the cosmos and remade gods. Kirby created action sequences so powerful galaxies shook. Kirby's Thor is the most epic comic book saga ever told. Kirby is...Mighty! Kirby is Mighty! is brings together a host of the greatest Thor tales drawn by Jack "The King" Kirby. They're stories so exciting, so massive in scope, so utterly epic that even Marvel's King-Size format struggles to contain them. Featuring Thor's first appearance; a bruising battle between Thor and Hercules; the mind-bending first appearance of Ego the Living Planet; the invasion of Asgard by Ulik and his horrifying troll army; and concluding with multi-part saga where Thor faces the immeasurable power of the world-devourer Galactus that reveals Galactus' origin.
Collecting THOR (1966) #160-162, 167-170 and material from JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (1952) #83 & 125 and THOR (1966) 126, 131-133 & 137-139
Collecting THOR (1966) #160-162, 167-170 and material from JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (1952) #83 & 125 and THOR (1966) 126, 131-133 & 137-139
- GenresMarvel
320 pages, Hardcover
Published July 16, 2019
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Jack Kirby
2,803 books478 followersJack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg) was one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artists in American comic books, and the co-creator of such enduring characters and popular culture icons as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, Captain America, and hundreds of others stretching back to the earliest days of the medium. He was also a comic book writer and editor. His most common nickname is "The King."
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June 14, 2022
Kirby is Mighty! collects Journey into Mystery #83 and 125, Thor #126, 131-133, 137-139, 160-162 and 167-170.
This is an expensive book with a $100 price tag so it was out of my reach until a Twitter chum told me I could get it for a cool $40 at hamiltonbook.com.
This tome is big enough to put a serious beating on your enemies with. It's over 300 pages, 22 x 14. I felt like Moses carrying the Ten Commandments down from Mt. Sinai when I was carrying it down the basement steps.
It's a gorgeous book with Jack Kirby's art on full display. Some of the stories were a little mundane but the cosmic ones featuring Ego the Living Planet and Galactus were worth seeing at such a huge size.
Aside from questioning a couple of the selections, my only gripe is how awkward this thing is if you're actually trying to read it from cover to cover. I had it lying open across two TV trays to read it in the basement or lying on the living room floor. Despite the uncomfortable reading experience, I'd still get Ditko is Strange if I found it on the cheap.
Gorgeous book but awkward as hell to read is my final verdict. Four out of five stars.
This is an expensive book with a $100 price tag so it was out of my reach until a Twitter chum told me I could get it for a cool $40 at hamiltonbook.com.
This tome is big enough to put a serious beating on your enemies with. It's over 300 pages, 22 x 14. I felt like Moses carrying the Ten Commandments down from Mt. Sinai when I was carrying it down the basement steps.
It's a gorgeous book with Jack Kirby's art on full display. Some of the stories were a little mundane but the cosmic ones featuring Ego the Living Planet and Galactus were worth seeing at such a huge size.
Aside from questioning a couple of the selections, my only gripe is how awkward this thing is if you're actually trying to read it from cover to cover. I had it lying open across two TV trays to read it in the basement or lying on the living room floor. Despite the uncomfortable reading experience, I'd still get Ditko is Strange if I found it on the cheap.
Gorgeous book but awkward as hell to read is my final verdict. Four out of five stars.
December 5, 2020
Jack Kirby was a force of nature. His artwork bristles with power, crackles with energy, radiates with grandeur and staggers the imagination. For decades Kirby was the ONLY artist who could Successfully handle anything from a street brawl to the fate of the cosmos, and probably do it all on the same page, without losing one quantum of integrity. It is without hyperbole or exaggeration that Kirby is known as the King of Comics.
While I first fell in love with Kirby’s art while reading issue after issue of the Fantastic Four and Kamandi, it was clearly a no-brainer that I’d also succumb to the charms of the Mighty Thor while under Kirby’s tenure. But I did come late to the party of Thor. In fact it was the reprints in the pages of the oversized Marvel Treasury Editions that I caught the Thor infection, as later interpretations of the thunder god just aren’t the same. Actually, it wasn’t until Walter Simonson, who offers an introduction to this edition, took over the Thor comic that I felt there was finally a worthy successor to Kirby on the title.
These pages are filled with just a sampling of some of Kirby’s remarkable and endlessly entertaining work of the character. And they are presented in a formate that’s truly does justice to the scope and subtlety of the character and the concepts contained in the title. This volume is truly a masterpiece.
While I first fell in love with Kirby’s art while reading issue after issue of the Fantastic Four and Kamandi, it was clearly a no-brainer that I’d also succumb to the charms of the Mighty Thor while under Kirby’s tenure. But I did come late to the party of Thor. In fact it was the reprints in the pages of the oversized Marvel Treasury Editions that I caught the Thor infection, as later interpretations of the thunder god just aren’t the same. Actually, it wasn’t until Walter Simonson, who offers an introduction to this edition, took over the Thor comic that I felt there was finally a worthy successor to Kirby on the title.
These pages are filled with just a sampling of some of Kirby’s remarkable and endlessly entertaining work of the character. And they are presented in a formate that’s truly does justice to the scope and subtlety of the character and the concepts contained in the title. This volume is truly a masterpiece.
April 24, 2025
This massive tome collects a few select Kirby stories that really demonstrate how epic his art was. There is a story involving Ulik the troll that was fun and really felt like a precursor to Fourth World. We also got Ego the living planet which was power on an epic scale and really highlighted how good Kirby was at collages. We also get the origin of Galactus which was super interesting. I loved how much Kirby tech we got in Galactus’ origin, it really showed an amazing world. Kirby really was the best to ever do it.
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