Friday, January 1, 2016

Jack Kirby Cool

Jack Kirby’s never-before-colored Argo concept art, used during a 1979 CIA mission to extract hostages from Iran. The prints will be available at the Heavy Metal website soon here. Via Io9.

I need to learn more about Kirby's contribution to the rescue of the Iranian hostages, which was only facilitated with the help of Canada. You can read the story here and even watch a documentary about how Kirby worked for the CIA or had his work appropriated by the CIA for the mission. Awesome stuff.






 


Posted by Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness at 10:48 AM

2 comments:

Simon B said...

I love Kirby's Lord Of Light designs! Psychedelic madness :-)

And the ( alleged ) story of the CIA / Iran business definitely comes from the "truth is stranger than fiction" file. Check out this link:
http://lordoflight.com/

January 1, 2016 at 12:30 PM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...

Thanks for that. I was just starting to do some research.

January 1, 2016 at 12:33 PM

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