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Post by MDG on Mar 1, 2020 10:55:16 GMT -5
The Bowery Boys was a staple on NYC TV when I was growing up, but it was only recently I realized the series went well into the 50s, when a couple of the "boys" were close to 40! Didn't realize you grew up in "the greater metropolitan area," too, MDG . I remember when Channel 5 (WNEW) showed the Bowery Boys movies on Saturday afternoons (one o'clock, maybe?), and they'd show the trailers for them as commercials during the week or as a preview of the next week's feature. ... On weekdays, Officer Joe was showing the Three Stooges.... I'd watch the Bowery Boys but was never a regular watcher, like I was with Abbott & Costello (WPIX, Sunday mornings).
I loved the Stooges, but my mom forbade me from watching them after an unfortunate soup-related incident with my sister.
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 1, 2020 11:17:37 GMT -5
To continue my observation about his change in style. From sinewy to robust. He went from this:  to this in about 5 years:  |
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 1, 2020 13:14:43 GMT -5
I didn't know Kirby worked on the original SHIELD! No doubt, this was before CAPTAIN AMERICA, which may be even more why MLJ (Archie) threatened to sue Timely (Martin Goodman)... Also, I had no idea Kirby worked on MR. SCARLET. A hilarious bit of trivia is that the 1944 CAPTAIN AMERICA serial started life as a MR. SCARLET script... but was changed at the last minute, when MR. SCARLET fell out of popularity... and the movie studio already had a deal with Goodman for CAPTAIN AMERICA. Goodman was pissed at what they did... but, myself, I've always LOVED the CAPTAIN AMERICA serial. The action scenes really feel like they stepped straight out of a Kirby comic-book... and his girl sidekick is smart, tough, fearless and packs a rod... JUST like a genuine "Kirby girl"! I love Dick Purcell in this thing. I just recently saw him in an earlier film, ALSO playing a crusading D.A. It saddened me to learn that he passed away from a heart attack, only a few MONTHS after finishing the CAP serial. I would loved to have seen him in a follow-up.
I loved the much-later story written by Don Glut which "explained" that in the context of the Marvel Universe, NOBODY in Hollywood knew who Cap really was... so the depiction in the serial was what they "made up". (heh) I suspect that was probably a Roy Thomas idea... WHO but he would put that much thought and effort into clearing up decades-old continuity glitches? (And, he hired Glut to fill in when he found he was too busy to actually write CAP full-time.) |
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 1, 2020 14:29:17 GMT -5
I met Morrie Turner (of Wee Pals) once, looking back i wished I'd asked him a lot of questions, but I didn't know a lot about the comic strips then.
I don't know if I knew Kirby ever worked on Captain Marvel. I may've known and forgotten though. The man did seem to have done everything!
We had a channel 13 when I was little that went out of business. It had King Of The Rocketmen and Captain America serials, plus Bowery Boys. It may've been KTNT or something like that out of the Seattle area, the one that had an early Buck Owens tv show when he lived around there before he (and Don Rich) became famous as part of the Bakersfield sound. I wasn't around for that though. Another channel from Bellingham had a lot of the old Terrytoon cartoons like Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle... they're still around as this area's 'MeTV' channel. They had an oldies weekend once with old Buccaneers, Sheena, Rocky Jones shows (and me with my first VHS recorder). I never knew why they didn't do that every year, or every weekend. PBS had a show hosted by Sunset Carson showing old western matinee movies and serials, there was even a Sunset Carson comic book back in the day. I got to liking that music a lot in the Gene Autry and Roy Rogers pichahs!
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Post by electricmastro on Mar 1, 2020 17:02:19 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 2, 2020 2:13:34 GMT -5
The transition from the East Side Kids to the Bowery Boys is a fascinating story - one of the most successful power plays by Hollywood stars ever. Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall ended up so rich that they never had to work again unless they felt like it.
Another strange corner of the Dead End Kids - East Side Kids - Bowery Boys saga was the Little Tough Guys series, which had some but not all of the main group. Gorcey wasn't in these films but Huntz Hall was, and in one or two of them, one of the adult co-stars was Shemp Howard, the once and future Stooge. Seeing Shemp and Huntz together sounds like it has a lot of potential.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2020 12:21:43 GMT -5
In honor of May the 4th...  from the official Kirby family FB feed. -M |
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Post by kirby101 on May 4, 2020 18:39:24 GMT -5
I painted this based on one of my all time favorite Kirby Cap pages. From Captain America #103'
Yes, I have a lot of time on my hands these days.
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Post by Confessor on May 4, 2020 18:46:58 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on May 4, 2020 18:53:11 GMT -5
In honor of May the 4th... from the official Kirby family FB feed. Would have loved to see Kirby re-interpret Star Wars like he did with 2001 |
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Post by berkley on May 4, 2020 19:08:56 GMT -5
I'm not so sure: I think the abstract shapes - spaceships, starscapes etc - of 2001 lent themselves to Kirby's style in a way that the more organic elemnts of Star Wars might not have done. When it came to character concepts and costumes, Kirby was always at his best with his own creations. I don't feel greatly enamoured of the SW cover above, for example
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Post by tarkintino on May 4, 2020 19:34:11 GMT -5
I painted this based on one of my all time favorite Kirby Cap pages. From Captain America #103'
Yes, I have a lot of time on my hands these days.
Fantastic. That is a sharp version of the Kirby/Shores work. |
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Post by Farrar on May 4, 2020 22:10:19 GMT -5
I painted this based on one of my all time favorite Kirby Cap pages. From Captain America #103'
Yes, I have a lot of time on my hands these days.
Wow, this is pretty great. Fabulous job, Kirby101.
P.S. I normally don't include images when I quote a post, especially when the post adjacent to mine includes the image--but I just love this! So I'm breaking my own rule  |
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Post by electricmastro on May 7, 2020 1:46:10 GMT -5
Jack Kirby’s art of Captain Marvel from Captain Marvel Adventures #1 (March 1941, Fawcett Comics).  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 13:11:03 GMT -5
Happy 101 anniversary of the King's birth!  -M |
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