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Jack Kirby and the Flying Chair: Seldom Seen 1950's Comics from Alarming Tales #1
Here is another great Jack Kirby story from that amazing comic from 1957: Alarming Tales #1 from Harvey Features Syndicate. Please say "hello" to hapless Timothy Donnegan and Donnegan's Daffy Chair.
 | This is one of four Kirby tales in this classic science-fiction comic, and it's the one that made the cover (shown below) Click on the cover thumbnail below to see it nice and big.  |
So it seems that sad-sack janitor Timothy Donnegan is cleaning up the patent attorney's office when an impatient inventor leaves his invention behind. It's one crazy-lookin' chair. Naturally our hero has to set down for a spell...
"No harm in that."
Famous last words. Donnegan pushed a button, and BEGORRA---
Talk about Unidentifiable Flying Objects--!
Busting out of Earth's atmosphere, he breaks the sound barrier, The heat barrier, and the speed of light!
...and five years later...
Looks like Donnegan spent some time hanging out with Moebius's Arzach!
Check out the crazy headgear, man!
Look familiar?
Anyway, here's the entire four-page story below. Just click on any of the thumbnail pages below to open up a new window with nice BIG high-resolution comic book scans!
...and if you missed the other stories from this issue, you'll find them here >>>>
The Fourth Dimension is a Many-Splattered Thing
(Jack Kirby's Ditko-esque take on Matheson's Little Girl Lost)
Click on the splash page above for the whole story.
Click on the splash page above for the whole story.
and HERE >>>>
The Last Enemy --Jack Kirby's proto-Kamandi post apocalyptic story. Click on the splash page above for the whole story.
---and there's still one story left to come from this alarming comic book! Stay tuned!
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