Markin’ Smokes #439

Let’s start this Flag Day edition with Captain America co-creator Jack Kirby’s son, Neal, writing in tribute to his late father in anticipation of Father’s Day.
http://www.co2comics.com/blog/2011/06/13/father’s-day-tribute-to-jack-kirby-from-his-son/
Here’s a nice collection of Will Eisner’s final Spirit Section pages featuring the Spirit in Outer Space by Wally Wood.
http://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.com/2011/06/outer-space-spirit.html
There’s been a lot of coverage of the Kirby lawsuit and the Jerry Siegel family lawsuit but do you remember when Carmine Infantino sued for rights to the Flash? I always wondered whatever happened to that. Here we are.
http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2011/06/carmine-m-infantino-v-dc-comics-et-al.html
Finally today, Stephen Bissette brings his perceptive critiques of the pop culture world to a new book on Rick Veitch’s seminal BratPack series from the 1990′s. I.T.C.H. recommends!
http://www.amazon.com/Teen-Angels-Mutants-Stephen-Bissette/dp/1935558935

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