Variant Gallery: Marvel’s Kirby Monster variants

Drunkwooky writes for www.comicsheatingup.net

Jack Kirby created some of the most fantastic comic book monsters in history.
I’ve been collecting the released Kirby Monster Variant images as they’ve been coming out.
Check out the gallery of tributes featuring some of the top artists of today showing off Kirby classics.

Marvel’s October variants paying tribute to Kirby’s monster creations! (These will run you about $8 each or less)

DOCTOR STRANGE #1 (Awesome Android (Fantastic Four 15) by Erica Henderson)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #2 (Infant Terrible (Fantastic Four 24) by Paolo Rivera) — AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #2 Infant Terrible (Fantastic Four 24) by Paolo Rivera)

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #1 (Groot (Tales to Astonish 13) by Mike Allred) — GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #1 Groot (Tales to Astonish 13) by Mike Allred)

UNCANNY AVENGERS #1 (Mangog (Thor 154) by Geoff Darrow) — UNCANNY AVENGERS #1 Mangog (Thor 154) by Geoff Darrow)

GROOT #5 (Quonian (Fantastic Four 97) by Christian Ward)

CIVIL WAR #5 (Lo-Karr, Bringer of Doom (Journey Into Mystery 75) by John Cassaday)

ANT-MAN #1 (Scarlet Beetle (Tales to Astonish 39) by Tradd Moore)

KARNAK #1 (Rommbu (Tales to Astonish 19) by Eric Powell)

Spider-Man 2099 #2 featuring The Crawling Creature (from Tales to Astonish #22). Cover by Marguerite Sauvage

All-New Hawkeye #1 featuring Elektro (from Tales of Suspense #13). Cover by Jeff Lemire

Captain America White #3 featuring Jinni Demon (from Thor #137). Cover by Glenn Fabry

All-New, All-Different Avengers #0 featuring Devil Dinosaur (from Devil Dinosaur #1). Cover by David Marquez

S.H.I.E.L.D. #11 featuring Poker Face (from Strange Tales of the Unusual #7). Cover by James Stokoe

Invincible Iron Man #2 by Walt Simonson

A-Force #5 by Chris Samnee (featuring Ulvar)

House of M #4 by Dave Johnson (featuring Kraa the Unhuman)

Ms. Marvel #19 featuring Wrecker’s Robot (from Fantastic Four #12). Cover by Cliff Chiang

Extraordinary X-Men #2 featuring Yeti (from Black Panther #5). Cover by Phil Noto

Contest of Champions #1 by Dan Brereton

Spider-Gwen #1 by Francesco Francavilla

Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1 by Chris Bachalo

Sam Wilson, Captain America #2 by Tony Moore

All New All Different Point One #1 by Paul Pope

4 thoughts on “Variant Gallery: Marvel’s Kirby Monster variants”

Kyle says:

October 5, 2015 at 12:35 pm

Wow…those are some fantastic covers. Stokoe & Moore ones are my faves.
1. Anthony (Comic Flipper) says:
  
  October 5, 2015 at 1:09 pm
  
  Stokoe is cool. I like the Pope one (goes without saying) and think Mike Allred’s style is fit for these.
  
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Nimrodil says:

October 5, 2015 at 5:24 pm

Agrees: wow!!! Make me think of the bronze runs of Monsters of The prowl and Where monsters dwell with a modern touch. I like! I think Karnak and A-force are my favs.
David Unlikely says:

December 16, 2015 at 5:43 pm

The only monster I can’t identify is the one that isn’t on the lists of these variants: All-New X-Men #1C by Jack Kirby. Anyone recognize him?

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