VERY GOOD -Book is in Very Good condition with some shelf wear, light loss of gloss, etc but no major issues like creases, missing pages, water damage, ripped cover, etc. Book likely has a remainder mark.
Creators: Jack Kir(Author, Artist), Wallace Wood (Artist)
Publisher: Hermes Press
ISBN: 9781613452110
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272 pages
On Sale Date: 12/8/2020
Dimensions: 10 x 1 x 11 in, 2.31 lb
Rating: 13 - 16 years
Sky Masters of the Space Force: the Complete Dailies 1958-1961; Jack Kirby; Dick and Dave Wood; Wallace Wood and Dick Ayers; $49.99; ISBN 978-1-61345-211-0; softcover with flaps and endleaves; color and black and white; 272 pages; 9 x 10 landscape; matte coated stock paper; essays and documentary material.
Jack Kirbys comic strip masterpiece is presented in an archival version featuring the complete dailies from Sky Masters of the Space Force. Veteran scripters Dick and Dave Wood provided these late-1950s space/action adventure stories starring Sky Masters of the Space Force and his gang of intrepid followers which closely resemble Kirbys work on Challengers of the Unknown (which was being published at the same time). Kirbys artwork is embellished by Wallace Wood and later by Marvel inker extraordinaire Dick Ayers.
Sky Masters was created at the beginning of the space race - when who would get into space and to the moon first -was a national obsession. The strip takes place in the not to distant future where the United States sends men into space but hasnt ventured much further yet. The series in clearly anchored in the late 1950s/early1960s so it serves as a highly stylized period piece that still holds up very nicely. The material used in this second edition of our reprint ranges from original art, to press proofs, to tear sheets, and boasts the best reproduction of the strip ever.
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