Showing posts with label Justice Traps The Guilty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Justice Traps The Guilty. Show all posts

14 August 2017

Return of Mobster Monday (King Kirby 054)


The old crime comics from the 1940s on which Jack Kirby worked, usually with Joe Simon, had a cover style that was heavy in exposition and often seemed like they were trying to tell the whole story on the cover. Here's a gallery of 13 Simon & Kirby covers from the period, mostly from Justice Traps The Guilty because we already looked at a bunch from Headline Comics. You can get a pretty good idea of what i mean from these:


Hey! You made it past all those bad, nasty people- congratulations.
Here - have a nice little 6 page Simon & Kirby story from the first issue of Justice Traps The Guilty to reward yourself:


all art by Jack Kirby & Joe Simon for Justice Traps The Guilty and Real Clue Crime Comics (1947-1951)