5/17/2023 0 Comments Simple comic book coversSome so so Severin art coupled with a Gary Friedrich go nowhere Inhumans story. Once the book was cracked open though, the magic was gone. Even the cover of Tales to Astonish #67 of a beautiful and powerful Kirby Hulk couldn’t compete with this! I couldn’t wait to get this book home. There was no other graphic that could compare of the Hulk up until that time. ![]() I couldn’t believe this cover when I saw it on the stands. Up to the plate comes Steranko again, and totally opens the door to artists such as Marie Severin and Herb Trimpe to show them what this guy should look like. Oh, he could lift tanks and such, as Ditko showed, but he was delineated as sort of an Arnold Schwarzenegger. Shoot, even Rick Jones was almost as tall as he was at times. ![]() Every other graphic before it, he just seemed to be a pretty big built green guy. I believe this is the first portrayal of a truly brutish monsterous Hulk. When this hit the newsstand, it was quite a surprise. A very surreal sixties cover, with everything going for it, including Steranko doing a very fine job of showing raw emotion of fear and rage, which up until that time, didn’t really exist either. It brought in a new vision of Cap, as well as ending King Kirby’s reign of this most enduring hero. Up until the time this comic was published, that artist didn’t exist. Hulk, for the first time, crossed the barrier as a Marvel Super Hero to a downright threat! It boggled my little child mind to see this cover, but one thing was clear…there was another artist who could draw Captain America very well besides Jack. This cover also showed no doubt who the villain is here. ![]() In those exceptions, the covers were cloned to look like Jack’s art. Jack drew every cover of Tales of Suspense featuring Cap and Captain America in his own title, up to this point, with the exception of maybe one or two. Totally by surprise! As a child collecting Marvel silver age off the stands, there was no other interpetation of Captain America other than Jack Kirby’s. After nearly sixty issues of Jack Kirby Captain America covers in the silver age, a five year span, along comes this one.
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