TS: Final Crisis vs. Jack Kirby's Super Powers

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Kirby never could get Superman's face right.

lol

by the time of super powers i think kirby's eyesight and pencil control were pretty shot - and it didn't help that greg fuckin theakston inked the only kirby drawn issue - not a good way to remember the king (but still better than final crisis, obv)

Didn't Kirby draw the whole series?

Nope, he drew all the covers and issue 5, but issues 1-4 are pencilled by Adrian Gonzales and inked by Pablo Marcos

GCD shows THREE different Super Powers series, 84/85/86, I'm thinking of the middle one.

^ facelol

the cover you reproduced is def. from the first series

hrm. I see. It's my own inconsistencies what's tripped me up. In my head, it's all Kirby, even the minicomics that came with the action figs.

to be honest, i'd forgotten all abt the second, all-kirby series until i too scuttled over to the GCD - sez it was inked by bill wray, which wld def. be a step up from theakston. again, if i remember rightly the action figs were partly a way for DC to give Kirby a royalty on darkseid and other characters without giving him any copyright or anything - this was at the time he was getting screwed by marvel over original artwork return etc

probably also to capitalize on the less-than-coincidental similarities btw Darkseid & DArth Vader

I always thought of DV as more of a dime store Dr. Doom.

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There's no stopping them now.

I had these dolls! I remember the Darkseid doll had a translucent strip on the top of his head which fed into his eyes, to create the omega beam effect...

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see, now i wish i had been here to vote. consider this a post facto tie.

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