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Phase Five: Publication

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Phase Four: The Color

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Phase Three: The Inks

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Phase Two-B: The Text

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Phase Two-A: Word Balloons

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Phase One: Pure Kirby!

A shout-out for HiLo’s Kirb Your Enthusiasm series

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Happy Anti-Fascist Day!

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Rob Steibel closely reads FANTASTIC FOUR (June 1967)

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Rob Steibel closely reads FANTASTIC FOUR (June 1967)

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Rob Steibel closely reads FANTASTIC FOUR (June 1967)

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Rob Steibel closely reads FANTASTIC FOUR (June 1967)

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Rob Steibel closely reads FANTASTIC FOUR (June 1967)

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What one page of FAN­TASTIC FOUR reveals about the Lee-Kirby collab­oration

The chaotic, radioactive dots and force fields of the printed page vs Pop Art

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Stephen Burt on the making of a critic.

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Danny Fingeroth locates the point of superhero comics in a 1965 FF panel.

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Matt Seneca finds sensuous formidability in WEIRD MYSTERY TALES (1972)

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A panel from Jack Kirby’s NEW GODS (1971) haunts Adam McGovern.

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When the Fantastic Four walked among us.

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Chris Lanier pores over Kirby’s space-scapes

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Douglas Wolk on a panel from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1977)

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Glen David Gold on a panel from JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (1961)

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Josh Kramer on a panel from THE FOREVER PEOPLE (1971)