Nick Fury

By noreply@blogger.com (Bully) Coming in at #515 in the 5,000 Hats of Jack Kirby, it's a cutaway diagram of Nick Fury's Amazing Rear View Hat! Costing over ten million dollars in research and development, this chapeau de subterfuge allows Nick to see who or what is coming up behind him, allowing him to kung fu their sorry b...

By Brian Cronin Artist: Jack Kirby I would have gone with a cover of Ultimate Nick Fury, but he really did not have a notable cover appearance for way too long for it to be actually iconic. So instead, we have the debut of Fury as the co-lead in Strange Tales, now as an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.! 1. Artist: Jim Steranko

By noreply@blogger.com (Bully) The visual design of hard-as-nails straight-arrow cop Dan Turpin (created by Kirby in Detective Comics #64, June 1942) has always been a broad, short, tough guy, but never was that look more apt than when Superman: The Animated Series producer Bruce Timm redesigned Turpin slightly for...

By Brian Cronin A couple of years before the three-part storyline in Captain America #111-113, Stan Lee had Captain America reveal his identity to the world. Captain America #112 was a retrospective on Cap’s career by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. That led to Captain America #113 by Steranko.