Today at ComicsAlliance, I’m responding to the news of renewed interest in the design work Jack Kirby did for Ruby-Spears Animation by listing the ten most amazing concepts he designed, from MASTER COMPUTOBOTS to the sheer horror of Hidden Harry, as represented by the 1994 “Jack Kirby Unpublished Archives” trading card set!
I love these things, and it’s nice to finally see someone at least talking about doing more than putting out a trading card set for them. And for those of you who were wondering: Yes. Deceptor’s car is exactly what Solomon Stone’s car looks like.
Well, I know what I’m going to do for a tabletop campaign when my zombie game runs down.
I don’t know man. This doesn’t really reach the glorious level of wonder as Bully’s “Many Hats of Kirby” posts…
COOL COMMENT, BRO!
I have heard the word, Mr. Kirby…and it is “BattleWhale!”
What if Hidden Harry is the thread that ties these all together?
Tired of losing to magicians in pimped out cars, people driving all-in-one cars, and guys with big hands, Hidden Harry bred a whole army of cavemen to fight in giant robots to wipe out humanity.
Hidden Harry.
I am never sleeping again.
I know, Adler. Every time I see a closed hat box, I won’t be able to stop thinking he might be in there.
Boy, this stuff is super fun to look at. It’s like when you were a little kid and you’d look at the covers of comics with characters you weren’t familiar with yet. Who’s that crazy looking guy? And why is he so awesome? Thanks for posting the pictures.
Cassette Man is way cooler than 8-Track Tape Man.
Yeah, but Cassette Man would kick seven shades of shit out of that lame MP3-Playing-Thumb-Drive-Fellow.
I think Hidden Harry is M.O.D.O.K. as a boy.
@ Dave
boy, you said it. I had forgotten those wondrous days. Back when I only had one issue of Wildstar, or Guardian, and thought they were the coolest ever, simply because I could create SO MUCH of the backstory all on my own. I finished collecting both series a couple years ago, and it never measured up to what I had in my head. (Wildstar almost did. really underrated comic.)
Thats EXACTLY what these Kirby cards are liek.
Just to be on the safe side, I think I’m going to just smash every hat box I see. Just in case.
Is it just me, or does the guy in the bottom left hand corner of Rogue Force kind of look like a young Bruce Campbell?
And as for Roxie’s Raiders, why the heck isn’t this being made? Forget cartoon, I’m talking live action movie. Globe-trotting 1930’s spies disguised as a travelling circus seems like a better premise for a movie than the boad game Candyland. Heck, I’m thinking franchise (Roxie’s Raiders, I mean, not Candyland).
I have to say, I’m not really a Kirby person most of the time. But this stuff is awesome. I’m a little more of a Kirby person than I was before.
Roxie’s Raiders would have been so awesome. A woman headlining an 80s action cartoon would be distinctive enough, that she’s a redhead with a whip helps, and you add in a tiny magician on a unicycle, a guy with giant hands, and a guy who blends into things while wearing the loudest costume of the bunch.