In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to November 1973 to see the finale of Jack Kirby’s original Fourth World Saga. One of the great likely unsolvable mysteries in the world of comic books is whether Jack Kirby’s Fourth World comic books (a group of three interconnrected titles that launched in 1971, with New Gods, Forever People and Mister Miracle) sold well or not. As I’ve written about in the past in a Comic Book Legends Revealed, I think that there is enough evidence to suggest that Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams’ Green Lantern/Green Arrow run was selling better than it was reported at the time. The idea that that comic book wasn’t selling well just doesn’t pass the smell test (DC was doing mass market paperback reprints of the run AS IT WAS COMING OUT, and yet the regular issues weren’t selling? Come on).In any event, long story short, DC started telling Jack Kirby to produce other comics, since his Fourth World comics didn’t appear to be selling. Forever People and New Gods each ended at #11, with Kirby moved to other new books for DC. Mister Miracle lasted the longest, but in November 1973, it ended as well with Mister Miracle #18 (by Kirby and Mike Royer), and the ending, which Kirby thought was wrapping up his Fourth World Saga, had SO MUCH going on in it, including a wedding!
In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to November 1973 to see the finale of Jack Kirby’s original Fourth World Saga.
One of the great likely unsolvable mysteries in the world of comic books is whether Jack Kirby’s Fourth World comic books (a group of three interconnrected titles that launched in 1971, with New Gods, Forever People and Mister Miracle) sold well or not. As I’ve written about in the past in a Comic Book Legends Revealed, I think that there is enough evidence to suggest that Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams’ Green Lantern/Green Arrow run was selling better than it was reported at the time. The idea that that comic book wasn’t selling well just doesn’t pass the smell test (DC was doing mass market paperback reprints of the run AS IT WAS COMING OUT, and yet the regular issues weren’t selling? Come on).
In any event, long story short, DC started telling Jack Kirby to produce other comics, since his Fourth World comics didn’t appear to be selling. Forever People and New Gods each ended at #11, with Kirby moved to other new books for DC. Mister Miracle lasted the longest, but in November 1973, it ended as well with Mister Miracle #18 (by Kirby and Mike Royer), and the ending, which Kirby thought was wrapping up his Fourth World Saga, had SO MUCH going on in it, including a wedding!
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