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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 12:31:12 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 27, 2017 12:45:59 GMT -5
Wow! never heard of this one! |
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Post by MDG on Apr 27, 2017 13:15:25 GMT -5
Not sure what that's from, but in'69 Jack did costume designs for a production of Julius Caesar.   More here |
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Post by Farrar on Apr 27, 2017 13:23:49 GMT -5
Been away for a few days, sorry I'm late to this party. Here are a few images of Kirby's designs from a 1969 university production of Julius Caesar.    Much more here kirbymuseum.org/blogs/effect/caesar/ check it out  |
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Post by Farrar on Apr 27, 2017 13:35:59 GMT -5
For the cover someone seems to have cobbled together, and then drew over, various images--example, Caesar and the Surfer:  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 27, 2017 13:37:04 GMT -5
Wow! never heard of this one! It's not actually a comic. Was created for Brian Cronin's blog at CBR, The Line it is Drawn portion. |
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Post by Farrar on Apr 27, 2017 13:42:19 GMT -5
Dick Grayson and Daphne Pennyworth (Alfred's niece) doing the balcony scene in Batman 216...  He later uses his Shakespeare knowledge to save the young actress's life...  Yes, and Dick puts his Romeo and Juliet knowledge to good use again a couple of years later, in the R&J-centric story in Teen Titans #35-36.  As usual, a great Cardy cover  |
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Post by Farrar on Apr 27, 2017 13:43:54 GMT -5
Wow! never heard of this one! It's not actually a comic. Was created for Brian Cronin's blog at CBR, The Line it is Drawn portion. Thanks for the info, SB. Now the cobbled together cover makes sense to me. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 27, 2017 13:55:55 GMT -5
It's not actually a comic. Was created for Brian Cronin's blog at CBR, The Line it is Drawn portion. Thanks for the info, SB. Now the cobbled together cover makes sense to me. Well, Kirby had a flair for the Shakespearean, or at least the pseudo-Shakespearean, in New Gods, Thor, etc. I really wish this had been a comic... |
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Post by Farrar on Apr 27, 2017 13:58:02 GMT -5
I first read Romeo and Juliet in middle school. When we got to Mercutio's death scene, I had an "aha!" moment--a line from it struck me as being awfully familiar. Well, I had seen it a few years earlier in this panel is from Avengers #60. I remembered it because when I first read this issue, the Black Knight's speech struck me as so quaint. I guess he was being gallant.  Yes, the " 'tis enough, 'twill serve " from R&J is used in a very different context here. I know Roy Thomas, a former English teacher, liked to throw in quotes from literature, so there are many many more over the years...but this one has always stood out for me. And it's just a coincidence that the character I'm spotlighting here is named...Dane.  Another play for another time... |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 27, 2017 14:04:53 GMT -5
I first read Romeo and Juliet in middle school. When we got to Mercutio's death scene, I had an "aha!" moment--a line from it struck me as being awfully familiar. Well, I had seen it a few years earlier in this panel is from Avengers #60. I remembered it because when I first read this issue, the Black Knight's speech struck me as so quaint. I guess he was being gallant. Yes, the " 'tis enough, 'twill serve " from R&J is used in a very different context here. I know Roy Thomas, a former English teacher, liked to throw in quotes from literature, so there are many many more over the years...but this one has always stood out for me. And it's just a coincidence that the character I'm spotlighting here is named...Dane. Another play for another time... Nice. On both counts. Such a poignant line in the original. (No pun intended) No coincidence that so many of Shakespeare's most memorable lines are composed of common one- and two-syllable words. It's all in that composition, though. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 27, 2017 14:10:45 GMT -5
Farrar, on a non-Shakespearean, but Roy Thomas-ian note, I remember as a kid being so struck by the title (and first two pages) of Avengers 61. It's Frost, of course, but you can hear Shakespeare in the simplicity and implacability of those lines. 
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 27, 2017 14:12:07 GMT -5
For the cover someone seems to have cobbled together, and then drew over, various images--example, Caesar and the Surfer: D'OH! Of course! |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 27, 2017 14:30:07 GMT -5
 Over in the 50 Years Ago thread, I had written the following in January 2016. "I remember that in a letters page that referred to Batman 179 (IIRC, in Batman 181), Irene Vartanoff mentioned that the villain in one of the stories in 179, Victor Iago, shared his last name with that of Shakespeare’s most notoriously evil villain. I was impressed by both Irene’s and Kanigher’s erudition. Hardly a subtle touch, perhaps, except that Kanigher was writing for me and a few thousand other 12-year-old boys, whose idea of subtlety had been defined by Mars Attacks cards and Three Stooges movies. It does remain my earliest recollection of anything Shakespearean." I haven't been able to find a panel or two from "Clay Pigeon for a Killer," the story that featured Mr. Iago's only appearance.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 15:56:14 GMT -5
Wow! never heard of this one! It's not actually a comic. Was created for Brian Cronin's blog at CBR, The Line it is Drawn portion. No it's not a comic, and it's not a missing Jack Kirby masterpiece either! I thought it was a cool 'cover' though. (I say that as a fan of the play Julius Caesar; my favourite Shakespeare tragedy.) |
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Another play for another time...