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I already re-read these stories in chronological sequence... a few YEARS ago (time is speeding by so fast it's frightening)... but TONIGHT, while working on the KA-ZAR section (long overdue), thumbnails and brand-new Index... something FINALLY occured to me.


X-MEN #10 -- Ka-Zar's in the jungle

DAREDEVIL #12-14 -- Ka-Zar is found in the jungle, taken against his will back to England

DAREDEVIL #24 -- DD runs into KZ again-- in England

SPIDER-MAN #57 -- KZ comes to NYC from his estate in England to straighten out some legal papers. (I dunno, I'd have thought his lawyer would have been... you know.. in London. Screwy Stan.)

HULK #109-110 -- Hulk finds KZ in the jungle

MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #19 -- Ka-Zar travels from England to the jungle

X-MEN #62-63 -- the team metts KZ again, once more in the jungle


The Arnold Drake-George Tuska MSH story CLEARLY was published out-of-sequence! Why did it take me so long to figure this out?

It obviously slots BETWEEN the Spidey & Hulk stories. It's when he returns to the Savage Land-- "for good".

ASTONISHING TALES #1

This may be my LEAST-favorite of all of Marie Severin's covers... but I was still determined to have the BEST-possible image of it at the site!
Fortunately, this clean-up job only took about a half-hour!


http://www.samcci.nostromo.no/aa-at/AT%2001.jpg

Well done.

Good catch and great clean-up!

This makes me realize I really need to read the Ka-Zar appearances in Hulk and later X-Men; I have them readily available but never have done so.

I love love, love that Ka-Zar / Spidey story. It's one of my all-time favorites and made me a Ka-Zar fan for life when I was 11.

And the original appearance in X-Men #10 is one of the best covers of all time.

I have all the "early" covers on one page together. Nice and "neat".

I also-- just for the HECK of it-- added a page for the KA-ZAR pulps. Turns out there were only 3, and all 3 had covers painted by J.W.Scott, Martin goodman's MOST prolific pulp cover painter. He did over 300 cover paintings!! Then, after WW2, he started calling himself "John Scott", never again used his "pulp alias", and never included any of the Goodman work in his resume.

A friend & colleague, Norman Saunders (he of MARS ATTACKS and the 1966 BATMAN bubble-gum cards!) commented, "If Goodman doesn't want his name associated with these magazines, why should I?"

I'm not only spending far, far too much time working on a silly website, I'm also learning a pile of stuff as I go! (Hey, whatever puts a smile on your face, right?)

"This makes me realize I really need to read the Ka-Zar appearances in Hulk and later X-Men; I have them readily available but never have done so."

I have the orighinals of the Neal Adams X-MEN, but I have never read those HULK issues. I believe they were the first ones when Herb Trimpe switched from inks to pencils.

I've also set up a "Reprints" page, but as it turns out, the only "KA-ZAR" stories reprinted are a handful from ASTONISHING and SAVAGE in the SAVAGE TALES ANNUAL. All the early stuff-- EXCEPT for the MARVEL SUPER-HEROES issue (which I do have) have been reprinted, but all over the place. I pity someone trying to read just Ka-Zar's "story", having to have all those separate MASTERWORKS of ESSENTIAL books just for an appearance here or there...