Today we celebrate the birthday of Fred Kida, born today in 1920. Kida was a Japanese-American comic book and comic strip artist best known for the 1940s aviator hero Airboy and his antagonist and sometime ally Valkyrie during the Golden Age of Comic Books. #FredKida
Marvel Books Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars Sticker Adventures: The Tower of Doom original cover art by Fred Kida and Marie Severin (1984)
Some Golden Age comics are really cool, as this book proves! #fredkida #airboy #valkyrie #goldenagecomics
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Airboy Comics Vol 3 No 6 [29], Vol 3 No 12 [35]
Hillman, 1946, 1947
Covers by Fred Kida.
#airboy #valkyrie #fredkida #hillman #1940s
Air Fighters Comics Vol 1 No 12
Airboy Comics Vol 2 No 12
Hillman, 1943, 1946
Featuring Airboy in "Misery!" and "The Return of Misery", both by Fred Kida. Covers by Kida ? and Kida.
#airboy #airboycomics #airfighterscomics #fredkida #misery #valkyrie #hillman #1940s
Air Fighters Comics Vol 2 No 2 [14], Vol 2 No 7 [19]
Hillman, 1943, 1944
Covers by Fred Kida (14) and Dan Barry ? (19).
First two appearances of Valkyrie.
#airfighterscomics #airboy #valkyrie #fredkida #danbarry #hillman #1940s
The Complete Golden Age Airboy & Valkyrie
Canton Street Press, 2013
Cover by Fred Kida.
Collects various Airboy stories from Air Fighters Comics and Airboy Comics. Includes work by Kida, Arthur Peddy, Bernard Sachs, Ernest Schroeder, Harry Stein, and Dick Wood.
#airboy #valkyrie #fredkida #2010s
I’m making my way through the #Marvel #Godzilla omnibus and I’m dying laughing at Admiral Chin Nuts here and the dire threat of planet Megan 😅
Words by #DougMoench, pencils by #HerbTrimpe, inks by #FredKida, colors by #MaryTitus, and lettering by #BrucePatterson
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