Jack Kirby photo collage page

Up for bid on eBay, this is an example of Jack Kirby's photo-collage work, seen sporadically in comics he illustrated throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

This isn't the collage itself, by a photostat made of the original, mounted on standard comic book art paper with a caption blurb attached to it.

Due to the relatively primitive printing in comics of that time, the collages never looked quite as they should've in published stories, but they still looked pretty cool. They are yet another aspect of Kirby's super-imaginative and innovative work.

According to the auction details, this example appeared in DC Comics' Weird Mystery #3 published in 1972, but was originally created for the unpublished second issue of Kirby's Spirit World magazine.

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