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Tales To Astonish #101
March, 1968

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No one has ever quite been able to figure out what happened with this one.  The original cover was pencilled by Marie Severin and inked by Frank Giacoia.  Apparently, someone up at Marvel didn't like the way the Asgardian soldiers were rendered at the bottom of the page so they had the bottom half of the cover redone by Jack Kirby and Bill Everett.  So the top half, including the Hulk figure, is Severin/Giacoia and the remainder is Kirby/Everett...but it's odd that they called on Jack, who was a freelancer, not on staff.  (Kirby, by the way, was never paid anything for some or all the cover retouchings you see examples of in this section.)  It's also odd that they didn't just have him redo the whole cover, which probably would have been less work than doing a drawing that would match up with what Marie has already drawn.

The odds are that Kirby was visiting the office at the time they decided the redraw was necessary.  He probably did whatever he did right there in the office, then ran out and took a train home before they asked him to do any more of this kind of work.