#JackedKirby - Attack of the Devil Bird!!! 🦅😈🦅 Jack and Joe Simon produces an awful lot of great genre work over at Mainline/Prize comics in the early 50s and I feel it gets overshadowed by some of their more well known works featuring more mainstream characters. I want to work on spreading love for some of these lesser known books/characters from them this year here at Jacked Kirby, so here we go... 😈🦅😈 Bullseye was a cowboy/western anthology styled book put out by Mainline comics and for the first few issues featured a heavy Simon load of contributions with Jack checking in sporadically. But with #issue3 of the series (released in December of 1954) we see Jack’s involvement ramp up... he is the primary writing and art credit on almost all the stories in the book, including this one that features an attacking DINOSAUR!!!! It’s actually a Pterosaur in the story, which is interesting cause this was right around the time when scientists shifted away from tying dinosaurs to crocodile/reptile looks and moved more toward bird like designs. Jack kills this with his ferocious flying Devil Bird, terrorizing young Bullseye and some unlucky Native Americans! 🦅😈🦅 The character of Bullseye and it’s comic only lasted only 8 issues at Mainline but it was some of Jack and Joe’s favorite work while at the company. He would also prove to be one of the duos last great collaborative creations, as the team would move on to separate career paths that would result in a few later collaborations based on existing characters. But Bullseye, the young sharpshooting cowboy was their last new character... a hell of a way to go out! 🦅😈🦅 PS- Can’t help but think of Jack’s most famous dinosaur character, Devil Dinosaur, when I look at this Devil Bird... must be the sharp red coloring!!!! 🦅😈🦅 #JackKirby #KirngKirby #Kirby #Bullseye #MainlineComics #PrizeComics #WesternComics #Western #Dinosaur #DinosaurComics #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #50sComics #ComicsOfThe50s #JoeSimon #SimonAndKirby #KirbyAndSimon https://www.instagram.com/p/BsvO7lgBbjQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fz127y1eiivr
