I've long wondered if Kirby's fine-featured, brooding Hulk was based--facially, anyway--on a certain fine-featured, brooding actor. And yeah, I first posted this on a comic book forum a while back but I'm re-posting it here just 'cause I like these images. So there!
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| (l.) Brando as Antony in the 1953 film Julius Caesar (r.) Incredible Hulk #1 by Kirby-Reinman |
Fun fact: In 1969 Jack Kirby designed the costumes and posters for a production of Julius Caesar at the University of California at Santa Cruz. More info at the Kirby Museum.
Update: check out August 2015 Time magazine on Kirby!
2 comments:
That's great, nice to see this blog is still active! Now I've got the urge to run around my workplace doing an impression of Brando-as-Caesar!
Ha ha! Sounds like fun--I'd pay to see that, J.A. :)
Actually Brando was a pretty decent Antony in that film--no surprise as he was coached by co-star John Gielgud, who stole every scene he was in as the lean- and-hungry Cassius.
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