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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 741 EAN: 9781401215835 ISBN: 1401215831 Label: DC Comics Manufacturer: DC Comics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 424 Publication Date: March 26, 2008 Publisher: DC Comics Release Date: March 26, 2008 Studio: DC Comics Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: After co-creating comic book heroes including The Fantastic Four, The Hulk and The X-Men, legendarywriter/artist Jack Kirby came to DC Comics in 1970 to publish his magnum opus: four interlocked adventures series that were known collectively as The Fourth World.This fourth and final volume collects the remaining issues of these classic seriesTHE NEW GODS, THE FOREVER PEOPLE and MISTER MIRACLE in chronological order as they originally appeared. Also included in this volume are Kirbys sequel to THE NEW GODS, plus the graphic novel THE HUNGER DOGS and rarely seen Kirby art from DCs WHOS WHO series, all from the mid-1980s. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The EndThe fourth volume wraps up Kirby's Fourth World unsatisfactorily. The endings are rushed as Kirby started moving on to other things; this experiment having failed it was time for new ideas. The strange thing is DC has been going back to thee concepts for decades and will continuer to do so because of Kirby's vibrant imagination. Only Mr. Miracle's run continues for a few more books but the "trap/escape" pattern starts to wear thin as Kirby's interest wanes. The inclusion of THE HUNGER DOGS ... Read More Rating:  - Great Kirby!I read the first 3 volumes, and waited awhile to get the 4th. It was worth the wait! Not as satisfying as actually having Kirby continue the way he wanted in the 70s, of course, but a very good reproduction of his work. Rating: - The end of the Fourth World as we know it.And then, as Mark Evanier relates in his Afterword, the "Fourth World" project came to an abrupt halt. This volume, the fourth and final colletion of Jack Kirby's most famous DC project, allows us to observe the final moments of the original run of titles, and the somewhat haphazard resolution that was tacked on by Kirby years later, when DC gave him another shot at his famous property. As anyone who ever talks about Kirby will stress, he was endlessly creative, and the "Fourth World" ... Read More 
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