#valorformen

[jacked-kirby]

#JackedKirby - High Visibility Wrap!!! 💥💥💥 Foxhole #Issue1 was an anthology war comic published in 1954 by Mainline Publishing featuring an iconic cover from the King. In it we see a wounded soldier sitting on a war torn beach smoking a cigarette through a bandages wrapped head. The colors are beautiful, and the image is powerful... but it isn’t Kirby’s! 💥💥💥 The image was swiped from a water color painting entitled “High Visibility Wrap” by artist Joseph Hirsch (Pic 2). It was created in 1944 and the image invokes such pain and suffering that soldiers endure in their wartime struggles. It also embodies a soldier trying to have a simple moment of enjoyment with his cigarette following his clearly dramatic injury! It is a beautiful painting, and makes for a perfect target for Kirby to recreate in this iconic cover from his early works! 💥💥💥 The image would also appear on the cover of the war magazine Valor for Men (Pic 3). It appeared on Vol 3, Issue 4 Of the magazine in 1959... 5 years after Kirby used the image for the Foxhole cover!!! 💥💥💥 As a veteran of WWII Jack saw firsthand what the horrors of war looked liked. He must have been struck by the stark realness of Hirsch’s painting and decided to incorporate it into his cover. Who knew it would become such a bench mark of his early career??? 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #Foxhole #WarComics #AnthologyComics #WarAnthology #JosephHirsch #WatercolorPainting #WaterColors #ValorForMen #50sComics #ComicsOfThe50s #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #igcomiccommunity #igcomics #igcomicfamily #ComicsOfIG #ComicsOfInstagram