"Mr. Morgan's Monster" - STRANGE TALES #99

Jack Kirby did a lot of monster stories for Marvel comics before there was a revival of interest in superhero comics at the company in the early 1960's. This particular tale was from STRANGE TALES #99, which had a cover date of August 1962.

This story was credited to Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers, who penciled and inked it, respectively. There is no mention of Stan Lee, who wasn't always credited in this period. Later on he made sure he had his name on everything and eventually would take credit for the creation of the Marvel universe.


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Rorrg, King Of The Spider Men- JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #64

The first appearance of Spider-Man was in AMAZING FANTASY #15, which had a date of August 1962. We won't go into all the details here, but Spider-Man is said to have been around in some form for some years before that. Here is a story from 1960 with "Spider Men" by Jack Kirby, one of the people who helped to develop the character of Spider-Man.


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This story came out in 1960, which was a little before Spider-Man, and a little after the movie EARTH VERSUS THE SPIDER. There are a number of similarities between the two, including the use of DDT. Some of the panels in the story even resemble scenes from the movie.

The 2001 EARTH VERSUS THE SPIDER reused the title, but was not actually a remake. It was described by co-creator Stan Winston as being about, "a young man whose attempt to become a Spider-Man type superhero goes disastrously wrong, leaving him with a Jekyll-and-Hyde type personality disorder".

Which sounds like it had about as much to do with the comic books as it did with the previous movie.



EARTH VERSUS THE SPIDER:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_vs._the_Spider

EARH VERSUS THE SPIDER ( 2001 remake ):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_vs._the_Spider_(2001_film)


SPIDER-MAN:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man

SPIDER-MAN - Jack Kirby's role in the creation of the character:
http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/dynamics/2011/11/22/the-never-ending-who-created-spider-man-debate/



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'Sazzik The Sorcerer" -TOS #32

This story from TALES OF SUSPENSE #32 has the names of Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers on it, but not that of Stan Lee, who liked to take credit for everything. Maybe this time they just forgot to put his name on it.

This story was originally published in 1962, and I didn't often read the issues from that far back.

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And Not A Word Was Spoken By Dick Ayers

I didn't really read a lot of western comics, but I remember reading this one, probably in a reprint. The story was originally published in 1962.


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