Here’s something one doesn’t see every day-black and white pulp art from none other than Jack Kirby, on display here from a 1941 issue of Uncanny Stories.

http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2011/09/uncanny-stories-1-shot-april1941-cover.html

Let’s stick with Kirby but jump ahead a few years to meet his Cold War semi-parody version of Captain America, Fighting American!

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2011/09/number-1017-poison-ivan-and-hotzki.html

And while we’re speaking of Captain America, just who did actually create Cap anyway? Daniel Best takes his best shot at that surprisingly complex question.

http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-created-captain-america.html

Finally, for even more speculation on not just Kirby but the whole blamed Marvel Age of Comics in the sixties, check out Marvel Genesis.

http://www.marvelgenesis.com/