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JL Mast
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Artist on "Ghosts of Marvel Comics", "Daredevil/Punisher Seventh Circle", "Thanos A God Up There Listening", "Ultimate Spider-Man Infinite"
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JL Mast @jlmast.bsky.social · Nov 10
🇺🇸 I'm currently working on a Graphic Novel "Fathers of marvel Comics", which will be published in early 2026, in the US and in France.

🇫🇷 Je travaille sur une BD intitulé "Fathers of Marvel Comics", qui sera publié début 2026, aux États-Unis et en France.
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Currently writing & storyboarding Chapter 10 of Ghosts of #Marvel #comics.
Next is chapter 11, which will bring the 1966 storyline to a close.
Once the art for Chapters 1–11 is complete, I’ll move on to writing Chapters 12 &13. a long coda to Chapter 1-11.
Progress, progress. One page at a time
October 27, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Great moments in book design, Marvel Comics edition.
October 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Cute pic of Jack & Roz Kirby. Late 1980's.
[Source : The Kirby Estate]
#jackkirby #comics
October 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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I wasn’t sure I could pull it off, but throughout my "Ghosts of Marvel Comics" graphic novel I often use a fly-on-the-wall view to reveal entire spaces... like in this example, for the color separation room at Chemical Color Plate rebuilt from photos and witness accounts. #marvel #comics
Panel from a comicbook "Ghosts of Marvel Comics" Aerial view of Chemical Color Plate Co, in Connecticut. It shows the space, the light tables, the workers (all women), as they were in 1966
October 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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October 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Yayoi Kusama installation, in Lille, few years back #yayoikusama #infinitymirrors
September 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Yayoi Kusama installation, in Lille, few years back #yayoikusama #infinitymirrors
September 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Saw this last year. Terrific collage art by Jack Kirby, last page of Thor #132 introducing Ego. @themarvelmethod.bsky.social @patrickford.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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🇫🇷 Contrat officiellement signé.
Ghosts of Marvel Comics (Stan Lee : Derrière le Masque) paraîtra en France chez Dupuis.
Merci à Stéphane Beaujean, dont l’œil, l’exigence et l’expertise enrichissent profondément ce projet.

#marvel #comics #dupuis #bd
September 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Where the magic (and the chaos) happens: my current workspace, where I’m writing Ghosts of Marvel Comics Vol. 2.

#comics #marvelcomics
Office of JL Mast. Books, comics and a great Donald Duck bust
September 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Wyoming Je T’aime comicsstrips that were published in Oil City Weekly on August 14, 2025.
#casper #wyoming #comicstrip #comics
August 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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August 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Full (unedited) interview with Bruce Jay Friedman.
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Considerable Martin Goodman content.
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Bruce Jay Friedman: An Interview - Mike Sacks: Writer
During his five-decade writing career, Bruce Friedman published eight novels, four story collections, numerous plays, and such screenplays as Stir Crazy (1980) and Splash (1984), for which he was nomi...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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It is my birthday.
Since the last one, I kept working on Ghosts of Marvel Comics… eight years and counting, it will be published by Dupuis in France.
My comic strip “Wyoming je t’aime” published in a real newspaper, it is still so strange to see it actually in print in the USA
August 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Question pour les connaisseurs de comic strips : y a-t-il déjà eu des auteurs français publiés dans des journaux de presse américains (quotidiens ou hebdos), dans le genre Peanuts, Garfield ou Terry and the Pirates ?
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August 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Never thought my little French brain would end up in an American newspaper!
…yet here we are, I guess: “Wyoming Je T’aime” debuts in Oil City Weekly!!

I get to put my French fingerprints on a very American tradition!

#comics #ComicStrip #OilCityWeekly #oilcitynews #wyoming @casperwyo.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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If you see this, post Jack Kirby art.

Here’s a never seen Jack Kirby layout from a panel of Strange Tales 152, which was later finished and inked by Steranko.

#comicsky #JackKirby #nickfury #marvelcomics
Jack Kirby layouts of nick fury lost at sea, in front of him a submarine Jim Steranko embellishments and inking of nick fury lost at sea, in front of him a submarine
July 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Actors play Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, in Timely Comics offices. From The Fantastic Four : First Steps, now in theaters. #FantasticFourFirstSteps #marvelcomics #fantasticfour
Pictures from the movie Fantastic Four First Steps, showing the Timely Comics Offices, with two actors playing Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, looking outside the window. The office is full of original comicbook art.
July 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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June 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Panel from the Eltingville Club story, "This Fan, This Monster". Pete DiNunzio, Secretary of Horror, threatens Bill Dickey with the words, "You come one step closer an' I'll do you like Marvel did Kirby".
June 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Today is the birthday of writer and artist Ruth Atkinson (June 2, 1918-June 1, 1997), most remembered for cocreating Patsy Walker and creating Millie the Model.
A black and white photo of Atkinson Party Walker # 1 (cover by Mike Sekowsky), Millie the Model #1 (cover by Sekowsky & Atkinson), a splash page by Atkinson from a Skull Squad story, and a page from Wing Tips by Atkinson, which was a feature describing various military aircraft.
June 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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JL Mast has documentation from Marvel files which prove the dialogue for AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #43 was not written by Stan Lee . Lee did review the dialogue and made some minor edits accounting for perhaps 10% of the published dialogue. Border notes are by Romita.
May 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Marvel Comics founder Martin Goodman's Popular Digest. Historically important because the 1st issue is the 1st usage of Timely Publications (the name Goodman would then use to publish comics). The timing of the 2nd issue is considered the reason that Captain America Comics started with Vol 2 #1.
Two vintage magazine issues of Popular Digest are shown side by side on a white surface. Both have yellow covers with black text and ornate borders, listing the titles and sources of the featured articles. The left issue is from September 1939, priced at 25¢ a copy. Articles include “Claas of ’29: Alumni of Depression,” “Can the Alcoholic Be a Moderate?”, “Lincoln Talks,” and “West America Joins the War,” with sources like The New York Times Magazine, Mental Hygiene, The Nation, and Popular Mechanics. The right issue is from January 1941, also priced at 25¢ a copy. It features articles such as “What’s He Got That We Haven’t?” by Wythe Williams, “Murder on the Mississippi,” “Seven Signs of Propaganda,” “Woman’s Place in the Home,” and “Still Bedlam on the Subway,” with content drawn from This Week Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Rockefeller Center Magazine, Woman’s Day, and New York Times Magazine. Both covers emphasize the magazine's digest format by listing many short, condensed articles on contemporary political, social, and scientific topics. A close-up photo showing two adjacent pages from a vintage magazine titled Popular Digest, dated January 1941, Volume 1, Number 2. The left page features an introductory note on “Brevity,” emphasizing how complex messages can be condensed into a few hundred words and promoting the digest’s format of summarizing articles. It includes publication information indicating it was produced by Timely Publications at the McGraw-Hill Building in New York City, edited by John Richmond. The right-hand page is the beginning of an article titled “What’s He Got That We Haven’t?” by Wythe Williams, discussing Adolf Hitler and Germany’s military advantages as of early 1941.
May 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Deep in the trenches of my graphic novel about Marvel… drawing pages almost non-stop. The next 10 days are all about the Chemical Color Company! Before Photoshop, these were the hands that gave Marvel comics their color. forgotten artisans but not for long!

#marvel #comics #chemicalcolor #coloring
April 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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This latest executive order has me worried
An executive order that just says "die!!! die for darkseid!!!!!"
January 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM