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Title: Jimmy Olsen - Volume 1 : Adventures By Jack Kirby by Jack Kirby ISBN: 1-56389-984-1 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't Be Chicken!! Buy It!! As King Kirby Would Say
Comment: Everything is in this one but the kitchen sink. Opps there it is and by Kirby too!!!
Seriously Kirby just cut loose in the early 1970's in this series. He took Jimmy Olsen and ran him straight into the fourth world (Darkseid? The DCU main man of menace? Debuted in these pages. How is that for an exclusive Clark and Lois!!! Run and tell Perry about that!!!).
The bones of these stories have been feasted on for over 30 years by nearly everyone who has lifted a pen towards the New Gods. There is humor and wonder in these tales. When you read about the cloning and other inovations you will really believe these stories came from today's headlines.
A thought provoking trip!!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: For Kirby fans only... DC's Kirby work after Marvel
Comment: This work is very innovative considering how Marvel treated him. It marks the start of his Forever People Saga and the New Gods characters that were introduced later. I am very happy that the series was reprinted in color. The current black and white reprints don't do the stories justice. Someone at the corporate level must be listening to the fans, such as myself, who demand that Kirby's work has to be reprinted in color. I hope to see a lot more of these Kirby reprints in the future. Fans young and old alike can see where it all started.
Rating: 4
Summary: Bizarre, Energetic, Colorful
Comment: It seems like, after all those years of having Stan Lee hog the "Written By" byline on the Marvel books, Kirby was eager to implement these genuinely weird and original story ideas that had been festering away in his subconscious. Nano-cloning, bio-genetic engineering, the Zoomway, the Whiz Wagon, the Habitat, the Hairies, the Mountain of Judgement, psychedelic photographic montages; something clever and strange jumps up to assault the reader every few pages.
One thing I really like about this book over the other Fourth World collections -- like NEW GODS, MISTER MIRACLE, FOREVER PEOPLE -- (besides the color reprinting) is that the stories here don't carry the good-versus-evil, Apokolips/New Genesis allegory baggage. This one has faster pacing and a more light-hearted feel. A few minor flaws: the Newsboy Legion tends to be more annoying than amusing, and the "hippyspeak" used by the Habitat people was never uttered by any human beings outside the pages of JIMMY OLSEN (and maybe THE FOREVER PEOPLE).
After DC finishes the Jimmy Olsen stories with the next volume, I would really appreciate it if they could reprint the whole KAMMANDI LAST BOY ON EARTH series.
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Title: Challengers of the Unknown Archives, Vol. 1 (DC Archive Editions) by Dave Wood, Jack Kirby ISBN: 1563899973 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Jack Kirby's Fourth World : Featuring: Mister Miracle by Jack Kirby ISBN: 1563897237 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Jack Kirby's The Forever People by Jack Kirby ISBN: 1563895102 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Jack Kirby's New Gods by Jack Kirby ISBN: 1563893851 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Jack Kirby's Mr. Miracle : Super Escape Artist by Jack Kirby ISBN: 1563894572 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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