Well, maybe instead you should buy Kirby's art.
As in, the art he hung on his walls.
Like this.
Don't know what I think of this. It's like, man, that hung on JK's wall while he drew all those FFs, Avengers, Hulks, Caps? Cool!
And yet... no one would really get it.
Thoughts?
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If I weren't so friggin' poor right now, I would bid on it. I would also bid on Bob Kane's orthopedic inserts, Joe Siegal's eyeglasses and Steve Ditko's manual on building bomb shelters. Why? 'Cause I'm a comic book geek. And geeks get geeky about geeky things.
Further, it's a status symbol. I don't own the original pencils for FF #1 (does anyone?) but I can own the pencil he drew it with or the stool he sat on. Oh, the posters hanging in his room don't have quite the same cachet as an object more intimately tied to his artwork (e.g., said pencil or stool) but owning a piece of Jack Kirby's studio says, "Hey, look at me! I own something that somebody famous once owned!" And for whatever reason, people tend to get excited by these things.
I know a guy who owns a nub of a pencil once used by Jack and he calls it The Kirby Splinter, with appropriate echoes when he says it.
Seriously, only a true geek would covet this. Or maybe Mark Evanier.
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