Here’s a tantalizing “If Only” project… On his (fantastic) Tumblr, The Marvel Age of Comics, Tom Brevoort has shared two unused Jack Kirby Hulk pages from, he suspects, #3 or #4 of the original run, apparently rescued from destruction by Larry Lieber following an argument between Kirby and Stan Lee at some point. This weekend, Kurt Busiek tweeted a truly tempting offer: “@TomBrevoort Do you have enough of that unused Kirby Hulk story to have it finished up and printed? I’ll dialogue it!”
Sadly, reality isn’t in our favor; Brevoort replied that “I’ve got something like six pages of it, but not the opening nor the finale.” Of course, now I’m holding out hope that we’ll instead see an all-new Busiek Hulk project that can include these six pages as some kind of flashback, even if that’s more than likely a victory for optimism over common sense at this point in time…
(Click through to see the Kirby pages under the jump. Oh, and * – This is probably not a factual statement.)
January 31st, 2012 at 11:20 am
Yes please!
January 31st, 2012 at 6:36 pm
There are 5 pages of this story that are online.
http://kirbymuseum.org/gallery/v/1962%20Unused%20Hulk%20Pencil%20Pages
And this story really should be completed if possible.
February 6th, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Very Cool.
Funny how the series only went six issues and the very first Incredible Hulk #7 comes out this year.
I like the Hulk books a lot, but( even by todays screwed up numbering system that doesn’t make sense)it’s numbering system is messed up.
Let’s see #1-6. THen the numbering is a 100 something up until #474. Then #12 that goes to….
You get the idea.