630 – Yellow Claw Inception

A panel from Yellow Claw #2, August 1956
A panel from Yellow Claw #2, August 1956

In Yellow Claw #2 (Aug 1956), Jack Kirby takes a crack at Marvel’s latest super-villain, the Yellow Claw. More examples of early “Kirby Krackle” as well as wonderfully intricate layouts like the above Inception-like warping of space. In “Concentrate on Chaos”, the Yellow Claw has kidnapped six mutants with powers that can skew people’s perceptions and Jimmy Woo has to stop them. When the hypnotic spell holding the mutants captive is broken, they are able to disappear:

Another panel from Yellow Claw #2, August 1956
Another panel from Yellow Claw #2, August 1956