JACK KIRBY IN THE VALLEY

All scans courtesy of the Jack Kirby Museum’s Original Art Digital Archive (www.kirbymuseum.org), with help from Tom Kraft of What If Kirby (www.whatifkirby.com). All images are pencil and ink on board and all characters and likenesses are TM and © DC Entertainment. A pillar of Kirby’s “Fourth World” construction: Mister Miracle 16, 1973. Nostalgia Journal was One of Kirby’s talents was injecting familiar genres into unlikely scenarios: Here’s a lone horseman, à la John Huston, in a cosmic world. Forever People 7, 1972. Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen; The Forever People; Mister Miracle; New Gods Kamandi Our Fighting Forces Kamandi Planet of the Apes Apes The bikers destroy the peace in this highly cinematic, noisy visual from Kamandi 6, 1973. Nostalgia Journal Kamandi The beginning and middle of Kamandi 6, 1973, as Kamandi and Kirby move from carefree to solemn. Our Fighting Forces Jack Kirby Collector 27 The three climactic pages from Our Fighting Forces 156, 1975.

Our Fighting Forces The Masters of Comic Book Art A half-inked page from the still-unpublished True Life Divorce 1, 1970. This page is a notable example of just how much detail Kirby would put into his penciled pages before handing them over to the inker.