(Kirby routinely worked with color photographs in composing his collages, but up to this point, most had been printed in stark black and white.) This one, like that on the comic’s cover, is somewhat unusual in that it includes color. …and follows it up with a double-page spread, featuring yet anther Kirby Kollage. Behind an attention-arresting cover, which - like most others Jack Kirby produced for DC Comics around this time - was built around an imaginative photo collage (and which also, like the cover of the issue of Jimmy Olsen that had immediately preceded it, featured Neal Adams’ inks over Kirby’s pencils), the comics readers of April, 1971 - including your humble blogger - were treated to the thrilling conclusion of the first multi-part storyline (indeed, the first storyline, period) of the massive Fourth World project written, drawn, and edited by Kirby.Īs anyone who’d been following Kirby’s recent work would expect, the “King” (assisted on the interior art by inker Vince Colletta) starts things off here with a full-page splash…
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