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New Comic Books - Review
Jump to full article: New York Times, 2008-06-01
Author: John Hodgman

Intro:

This was issue No. 133 of "Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen" -- the first to be written and drawn by the comics legend Jack Kirby. . . .

In the biography Kirby: King of Comics (Abrams, $40), the King's longtime confidant and assistant Mark Evanier writes of Kirby that "when a new idea came to him, he jotted it down on a scrap of paper and, usually, lost it. Once, he got careless with a cigar, started a small fire in his workplace and lost over 50 concepts" -- or, as his wife, Roz, put it, "'a whole day's work for Kirby.'"

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