We see from New Gods 1 that Jack was previewing New Genesis at the end of Thor 128, and that there are technological wonders like floating platforms, flying devices. We even see in New Gods and the Hunger Dogs graphic novel that Lonar found Thor’s helmet whom Highfather referred to as an Elder God.Īs Jack gave us a small preview at the end of Thor 128 of New Gods with their technology, he starts of this storyline by zooming the reader into his brave new world. Some have argued that the figure with the headdress and hammer in the background is actually the Mighty Thor himself and Jack is really trying to show the reader this is a relatively early company cross over epic. In the first couple pages, we see this is essentially the continuation of Thor 128, 1966 and Jack was ready to explode his ideas onto these pages with himself as editor and writer. Jack decided to submit his next generation Thor characters under his new DC agreement with Carmine Infantino and the New Gods was born. Specifically look at the note in the back of the top right panel which also states that all was forgiven for Jack over at DC Comics by Carmine, and that he was welcome back.įast forward to 1970, Jack Kirby was living in Thousand Oaks, California to improve the weather for his daughter’s asthma, and he decided to take Carmine Infantino on his offer especially since Jack Schiff’s ally and fellow editor, Mort Weisinger also retired from DC that year. We see in Not Brand Ein some panels drawn by John Verpoorten and written by Roy Thomas, that Jack slaved for his wage at Marvel creating stories. However 10 years later, Jack Schiff was gone as he retired in 1967, Carmine Infantino got promoted to editorial director the same year and that black ball was removed. These images were printed in 1971 Jack Kirby Portfolio in black and white and in color at the Jack Kirby Collector 26, 1999.Īs we saw in the Atlas Implosion episode, Jack Kirby was black balled at DC Comics in 1958 when he and editor Jack Schiff had a lawsuit over profits of the Sky Masters newspaper strip. Just as we mentioned in the newspaper strip to comic episode, the illusion of change maintains a company’s brand and maintains income, so why significantly progress or evolve a story?.Īround 1967, Jack Kirby felt that he had created or co-created so many concepts for Marvel that he started creating designs for these New God’s and purposely didn’t submit them anywere as he was a freelancer, so why not keep some of his own ideas? In the battle to end all things, Thor and Loki die in a battle to the death, a great upheaval brings about the end of Asgard and the birth of “a new civilization… a golden age…” These next Gods were a fusion of Gods with technology, and we dont see any more of this period as it is very likely that Stan Lee and Martin Goodman had no incentive to shake up a money making comic book. This was shown in Thor 127-128, 1966 which depicted the Ragnarok of the Norse Gods, where all good things had to come to a cataclysmic end. ![]() Jack took that interest and with Stan Lee co-created Marvel’s Thor in the 1960s, but there was a time in the later part of that decade when Jack wanted to progress the story through Ragnarok into a second generation of Gods. Thor is a story of the Norse Gods which Jack Kirby was interested in since he was a child and dabbled in comics since the 1940s. Those three are Thor that he worked on in the 1960s with Stan Lee, the New Gods for DC Comics from the early 1970s, and his 1980s series Captain Victory. He was able to pioneer many comic genre’s like Superheros, Romance, Crime and horror, but as mentioned in the “Ancient Aliens in Comics” episode, he would often go back to the epic concept of “Space Gods.” However there were a few works in this genre that were actually related to one another as one large trilogy. As Jim Steranko said, Jack wasn’t analytical about his art, but his hands would move and intuitively he would start from the top left of a page and end up at the bottom right with unconscious ideas put to paper. Read Alex Grand’s Understanding Superhero Comic Books published by McFarland Books in 2023 with Foreword by Jim Steranko with positive reviews by comic book professionals, Jim Shooter, Tom Palmer, Tom DeFalco, Danny Fingeroth, Alex Segura, Carl Potts, Guy Dorian Sr.
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