#JackedKirby - House Ads vs Finished Product 💥💥💥 I was doing some research on things to post and I came across this interesting house ad. Pic 1 is a House Ad that was placed in Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos #Issue4 (published bi-monthly in November of 1963). It is promoting the appearance of golden age hero turned current hit villain Submariner in the next issue of the Avengers! Pic 2 is the opening splash page of the Avengers #Issue3 (published bi-monthly in January of 1964). 💥💥💥 At first glance the obvious thing they share in common is the central figure of Subby that was obviously used twice... once in the house ad and once in the actual issue. In the house ad we also see lots of signature “Kirby floating heads”... which we also see in the actual issue page. But there is a major difference between the heads in the Ad from 11/63 and the finished product from 1/64. 💥💥💥 Hulk’s head/hair has been redesigned, with Jack moving away from the flat top Frankenstein head to the messy mop top hair. Also Iron Man has gone from the golden “metal torpedo head” helmet to the more recognizable red/gold shell head helmet. Thor and Giant Man seem to be designed the same. Also we see the addition of Wasp to the group in the final page! 💥💥💥 Sgt Fury and Avengers were on the same publishing cycle every two months... with Fury getting a bit of a head start. So it would make sense to promote the upcoming Avengers issue in the Fury mag... but between the time of publishing numbers Fury Issue 4 and the actual publishing of Avengers 2 Iron Man’s armor was drastically changed. This actual happens because his armor is MELTED by a villain known as THE MELTER (lol) in Tales of Suspense #issue47 (also Nov of 1963). The new red/gold armor was designed by penciller Steve Ditko... which would then have to be continued from then on. But when Jack did the House Ad to appear in Fury this hasn’t happened yet... so we get old Gold Bucket Head in the Ad!!! Cool little publishing quirk... 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #Avengers #NickFury #IronMan #Mark2Armor #Mark3Armor #SgtFury #SgtFuryAndHisHowlingCommandos #HouseAds #Submariner #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Z8xgahjrH/?igshid=ga60fehixcgz
