More Big Barda And Her Female Furies art found!

So I'm looking through the pages and pages of photocopies in the museum's holdings, this one batch being in an 8 1/2 by 11 three-hole looseleaf binder, and one piece jumps out at me:


A pitch page from the Big Barda And Her Female Furies comic.

I contact John Morrow, who'd never seen it, so we spend some time deciphering the poorly photocopied pencil marks at the top of the page. We come up with:

"Barda and gals bring Lump to Earth with them. [illegible...] powerful, the Lump has an inferiority complex--and the gals try to help him overcome it, while the Lump helps them out of scrapes... traps..."

"Barda and gals run “Beauty Rock” island we talked about--which is center for spy activity--and paid for by free nation govts."

"Island is cover for military training base for gals--”

(Click on the image to be able to see a larger version, and to read a transcription of all of Jack's text.)

Barda was introduced in Mister Miracle 4, Lump in Mister Miracle 7, the Female Furies in Mister Miracle 8, Head in Mister Miracle 10, and Apollo was introduced in OMAC 7.

John published the pitch page in his Spring 2011 Jack Kirby Collector 56.

Here's the unfinished cover for Barda And Her Female Furies:

Hosted over at Tom Kraft's What If Kirby site.

I suspect Kirby created a third page detailing Barda and the Furies themselves, but we'll just have enjoy what we've seen so far.

That's great Rand. Maybe you

That's great Rand. Maybe you could start a regular feature based on the photocopies, sort of a "page of the day?" Not only would it be valuable, but it would be a great way to get people checking in often.

Kirby Museum Daily

Not a bad idea - let me see if I can become more "Tom Kraft-like" his regular posts for whatifkirby.com are impressive...!

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