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!
5 comments:
Wooooowww!!!! A terrific site...one of the best cartoon sites around! I'm going to tell everybody I know about this (everybody who doesn't know about it already)! Congratulations!
P.S., My Safari browser wouldn't show your twisted verification word, and I had to switch to Firefox in order to leave a comment. If comments have been sparse, problems with posting them might have been the reason.
Thanks for the kind words, Eddie! I certainly appreciate you spreading the word. The cartoon world is a much better place when we can all share this stuff ^_^
I'll have to check with Google/Blogspot to find out the deal on the comments verification...I'm glad you worked thru the snafu. Great to finally meet you! Best --Sherm
While Jack could draw a flying chair like nobody's business, he was second to none when drawing bulldogs!
Hey Sherm,
Just found this site after googling another story (Colorama, by Bob Powell) which was collected in a Harvey digest called Shocking Tales #1 in 1981. The digest also included all your Kirby stories from Alarming Tales #1.
Thanks so much for posting these! They took me way back to my childhood, thumbing through that dog-eared digest over and over again. I'd love to read any more like these if you have them.
I love the site, and I look forward to going though your back posts for more great stuff. Thanks again.
Hi, Marc...glad you liked them...there's still one more story from that book that I'm gonna post. So keep an eye out!
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