Jack Kirby draws SpiderMan

[samurainoir]

Kirby's off-model rendition of Spider-Man just brings me all kinds of joy. I can only imagine the kind of What If? style adventures he would have done with this version if left to his own devices. I can totally see his SpiderMan riding a dinosaur, fighting Nazi themed creatures, or traversing otherworldly environs.

[emeraldknight47]

Man, those are great pics, sammy. Yeah, I imagine if Spider-Man had been a Lee/Kirby production, it might've been a vastly different project.

[MRP]

Man, those are great pics, sammy. Yeah, I imagine if Spider-Man had been a Lee/Kirby production, it might've been a vastly different project.

Well you can see some of the differences just by comparing the Kirby cover of Amazing Fantasy #15 with the unused Ditko version of the cover that didn't appear in print in color until Marvel published it as a pin up in an issue of Marvel Tales from the 80s...

The Kirby cover we all know on the left and the Ditko version that Stan rejected on the right



-M

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