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Jack Kirby Museum shares how a French comics-focused publication discovered a lost, two-week run of a Kirby-illustrated Davy Crockett comic strip.
“Davy Crockett, Frontiersman” by Jim McArdle was syndicated by Columbia Features Inc., with writing by France “Ed” Herron.
“Davy Crockett, Frontiersman” started as a daily strip in early 1955,
right in the middle of the Davy Crockett craze.
...starting in January 1957, Jack Kirby “ghosted” the “Davy
Crockett, Frontiersman” daily strip for less than three weeks. He
started on a single strip on Thursday, 10 January—probably as a
try-out—and went back to it for a 18 day tenure, from Monday, 14 January
up to Saturday, 2 February. No evidence points to Kirby working on the
larger Sunday strips. He inked the whole run, except the last three
strips, which seem to be delineated by Kirby's wife Roz. The strips Kirby worked on
were not signed by Kirby, nor Herron, nor McArdle.
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