Tales to Astonish #101 Cover (LARGE ART) 1967
Jack Kirby (penciller); Marie Severin (penciller); Syd Shores (inker)
Original Art Record
Characters
Hulk
Encyclopedia Capsule
This cover is cataloged as Tales to Astonish #101 Cover (LARGE ART) 1967 and credited in the supplied source to Jack Kirby (penciller); Marie Severin (penciller); Syd Shores (inker). The source associates it with the story “Where Walk the Immortals!” The current catalog tags the visible subjects as Hulk.
What the Art Shows
What this artwork shows
The entire Hulk image only was penciled by Marie Severin and inked by the great Frank Giacoia.... The ENTIRE rest of cover...Odin.. Heimdall.....
Story and Issue Context
Publication and story context
This record documents a cover from The Amazing Spider-Man #101, identified as the cover, dated 1967 in the source data. The associated story is listed as “Where Walk the Immortals!” The credited artist information supplied with the collection record is Jack Kirby (penciller); Marie Severin (penciller); Syd Shores (inker). Within Amazing Spider-Man history, this issue introduces Morbius.
Why This Piece Matters
Why this piece matters
As cover art, the piece served as the issue’s principal sales image and public visual identity. The issue is historically notable because it introduces Morbius. The identified subjects are Hulk.
Source Significance Excerpt
Check out this INCREDIBLY "HISTORIC" LARGE ART Hulk cover, which was drawn by a combination of 2 great 1960's art teams! The entire Hulk image only was penciled by Marie Severin and inked by the great Frank Giacoia.... This great large Art cover was from the ever classic story titled: "Where Walk the Immortals!" This cover and story ties DIRECTLY into "THE INCREDIBLE HULK #102" (Origin and first HULK re-issue with the very next issue).......So you could call this cover...INCREDIBLE HULK #0!
Mike Burkey / Romitaman Notes
Check out this INCREDIBLY "HISTORIC" LARGE ART Hulk cover, which was drawn by a combination of 2 great 1960's art teams! The entire Hulk image only was penciled by Marie Severin and inked by the great Frank Giacoia.... This great large Art cover was from the ever classic story titled: "Where Walk the Immortals!" This cover and story ties DIRECTLY into "THE INCREDIBLE HULK #102" (Origin and first HULK re-issue with the very next issue).......So you could call this cover...INCREDIBLE HULK #0!
Open the complete preserved Romitaman description
Check out this INCREDIBLY "HISTORIC" LARGE ART Hulk cover, which was drawn by a combination of 2 great 1960's art teams! The entire Hulk image only was penciled by Marie Severin and inked by the great Frank Giacoia.... The ENTIRE rest of cover...Odin.. Heimdall..... all of the other Asgardian Gods....the Rainbow Bridge.....and all of the background stars and buildings and cosmic action lines... ALL OF THIS ART was penciled by the great Jack Kirby and inked by the great Syd Shores. The reason for all of this was that Stan Lee did not like how the Asgardian Gods and Odin looked By Severin and Giacoia, and he had Jack Kirby re-draw them, with Syd Shores inking, thus the mixed cover artist elements. This great large Art cover was from the ever classic story titled: "Where Walk the Immortals!" This cover and story ties DIRECTLY into "THE INCREDIBLE HULK #102" (Origin and first HULK re-issue with the very next issue).......So you could call this cover...INCREDIBLE HULK #0! LOL....... This large art 1967 Tales to Astonish cover just may be the ONLY known LARGE ART TTA HULK cover in existence that the great Jack Kirby ever worked on! This cover has all original LOGOS, and the art was drawn up through the logo as well...and the original COMICS CODE AUTHORITY STAMP DATED September 28, 1967 is on back of this cover as well. There is another part STAT cover similar to this cover, but with a 100% STAT Hulk image (created directly from this art) with Marie Severin and Frank Giacoia unpublished drawn backgrounds on it. This is just a VERY RARE opportunity to own a LARGE ART 1960's "HULK" cover, and I'm not sure if any other TTA HULK covers exist other than the TTA 95, which is all Marie Severin penciled. Compare this nice cover art to the published comic book in the red link above! ALL art on our website (including this one) are able to be purchased with VERY fair time payments, and trades are always considered towards "ANY" art on our website! Just send us an email to mikeburkey@aol.com and we can try to work something out.
Source Information
- Primary object source
- Romitaman / Mike Burkey personal-collection listing supplied in the master document