Such a fun series. Jack Kirby never did anything halfway, his creativity back in the 70s was just phenomenal. Beautiful book.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

man, you're simply the most informative reviewer in the community imo, i always check this channel whenever im looking to get some books.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much.

I'm 75 and Kirby is god to me, lol ! Bought Kamandi new and couldn't wait for each issue !!! ( The Fourth World sagas are the best comics of All Time ! )

@maureencora1

2 ай бұрын

I Feel You, I'm 66.

Re-read this about a year and a half ago. Good as ever. Fun. Too bad we don't get books like this today

Kamandi meets Superman in DC Comics Presents #64.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, sir.

Jack Kirby Should Had Call It "Kamandi Last Teen on Earth". I Bought It in 1972 When I was 15. I Miss Those Days.

Kamandi was a little bit ahead of it’s time, I love it!!!

@OrangeGeemer

2 жыл бұрын

What do you mean with that?? Isn't this a unique thing??? Ahead of its time sound like later on there were a bunch of comics just like this one, but I don't think there are.

@joshuahelmeke

2 жыл бұрын

@@OrangeGeemer true, enough. You can still see the influence in other peoples work, though. Xenozoic Tales (aka. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs) for example.

thank goodness i realized there's no "dated" art, only iconic art.

Out of the three Kirby DC omnis this was always the one that interested me the most.

Every so often DC nails it with a wonderfully designed & packaged omni and this is definitely one of those times! I felt the same way about Jack’s art when I was a kid but now I can really appreciate his creativity and energy. He definitely led the way for so many artists inspired by his work!

What a great book, just loving the old school stuff.

PERFECT TIMING! Was just wondering if I should pick this up. Thanks Omar!

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

Have to disagree with you, Kamandi is ABSOLUTELY GREAT! One of Kirby's best creations and I don't think there's anything wrong with the dialogue! Of course, the art is MASTERFUL! I would love to see PIXAR do a CGI movie of this character! To me, his adventures would be perfect for them to do!

Really nice overview, again ! I picked this up for my collection of Kirby's Kamandi. Haven't read it though and was stoked to find there are some Joe Kubert covers as well. I have his Tarzan Artist Editions. But, back to Kirby. Friends of mine more into Kirby, Kirby at DC, really like his Kamandi as well, including owning the Artist Editions of this too, but their number one love in all this is his OMAC. All this after Kirby's Fourth World, of course. I believe it's a challenge getting a hard to get a hard cover of it, but a color trade of OMAC was recently released.

Whilst DC would have seen this as riffing on Planet of the Apes (1968), Kirby had written and drawn a story featuring talking animals more than a decade earlier.

Moon theme! Lol… Really appreciate the background tunes! Great choice too, classic!

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

A man of good taste.

👍 Great video 👍

Great retroview, Omar! I had to get this and the DC Universe: The Bronze Age Omnis, but as a huge Kirby fan, I went the Absolute route for the Fourth World. Still waiting patiently for Volume 2, which I think is still delayed until January.

@vincentimbesi3947

2 жыл бұрын

The absolute is the way to go for The New Gods! I had the omnibus and sold it to get the absolute version. Best decision I’ve ever made. Now let’s hope Vol 2 gets released! 🤞😊

@hamzadawud

2 жыл бұрын

@@vincentimbesi3947 I bought the Absolute because I didn't know the Omni was getting reprinted, but I don't regret my decision. The only issue is waiting for Volume 2, lol.

@cullenn2100

2 жыл бұрын

I have the first 3 volumes of the old version of the Fourth World Omnibus - the standard-dimension hardcover with comic-esque paper. Holding out to one day find Vol. 4 for a *somewhat* reasonable price (like, below $100!)

@hamzadawud

2 жыл бұрын

@@cullenn2100 You could always try to sell them and upgrade!

@cullenn2100

2 жыл бұрын

Hamza although it isn't oversize, I prefer the presentation of the old version. I just poked around + found a Vol 4 in the $55-60 range so I may pull the trigger!

Kirby is timeless

Man, Omar you got me distracted from working but, seeing this stuff is cool. Gotta Work now to play later. But great overview.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, sir.

I felt the same way about Kirby when I was young. His stuff looked old fashioned and corny to my 80s kid brain. Also, that thick Sinnot/Royer-style brush inking really looked antiquated to me. I was accustomed to the thin pen line inks that seemed to be popular in the 80s. It took me a couple decades to finally realize that I had been missing out on my all time fav artist/creator.

This is on my list to pick up. I have the 4th World Absolutes and they are beautiful

100% Kirby Awesomeness!!!

Thank you for this. I myself started to appreciate Kirby 2 years ago, and started to buy the monster sized books. I will get this too, but there is soo much to buy... hard to prioritize.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

So interesting to see some of these silver and golden age characters that have been totally forgotten!

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

From time to time you'll see them show up.

I have a old Kamandi

I bought the issues after Kirby left as single issues on EBay.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

I hope they collect those one day.

A great and fun series for any Kirby fan. I just wish DC would collect the rest of the issues in the series (41 - 59) in a companion hardcover.

@cullenn2100

2 жыл бұрын

True! I have a fondness for early Kirby-clone Giffen. They've given us the Engleheart Mister Miracle and the post-Kirby New Gods, so it wouldn't be unheard of

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Really wish they would too.

Hey Omar Love the review ! I just picked up the tpb that collects #1-20 and there was issue with rescaning issue no. 17. Several of the pages, including half the double page spread left side, are blury and out of focus. I know DC has a habit of using he same scans and was wondering if the same problem in no.17 can be found in the Omnibus ? In the trade its pages 1,2,7,8,13,14,19 and 20 of issue no.17 that are blury 😢 Anyway love your videos, they really help fuel the collecting spirit !

Glad you got the lower price Omar. I hope your omnis from Amazon come in good condition. I’m never ordering from them due to consistent damage in transit due to lack of adequate (or basically any) packing material.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, sir.

Amazon canceled my Usagi Yojimbo Saga, I throw a fit and got a gift card that I spent on this. I got and read it this year, it is a lot of fun and something I highly recommend. It starts to take a turn in the writing around when DC screwed Kirby, which is a shame since I don't think anyone else could handle this world of his. I do love this and highly recommend it. I also feel you need the right Kirby book to get into Kirby. For me, the Demon and Fantastic Four.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

You better throw a fit! That's how things happen. It seems like Comics did break Kirby's heart in the end. Which is why he left.

@fireboy312002

2 жыл бұрын

@@NearMintCondition It's getting harder and harder. I am not a fan of them but they have every book haha. DC promised him he would be able to write and let others draw. They broke that deal and canceled the Fourth world. It's crazy

great Kamandi i remember that series i have to go all over comic shops and newstand to found those books! but kirby was the Legends of Marvel and dc yup!

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

It's a great book.

Kirby 🙌

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Yes sir.

I remember going to a small local comic show as a kid in the late 70s and finding the first 30 or so issues of Kamandi in one dealer's 25 cent "junk" box, not even bagged, just loose. Even as a pre-teen in an era long before online nerd culture existed I knew how good Kirby was, and I snapped the whole lot of them up immediately. The dealer laughed in my face because I'd paid almost $8 for a bunch of "garbage" because I was a dumb kid. Made a point of cleaning that guy out of all super-cheap early Kirby and Ditko (including a good chunk of the Doctor Strange run) he put out over the next couple of years, and he was derisive every time because I was buying "old junk no one cares about" according to him. Must have given the sneering jackass a good fifty buck at 25 cents a book I wound up having to sell my whole collection in the early 2000s. The "junk" books alone earned me well over a grand at the time. Not bad for a dumb kid, eh?

Wow I never knew they did a proper Kamandi Omni. I used to have the original 2 smaller omni which had matte interior pages if I recall. Yup the book/trade design of these new Omnis are fantastic. Even the recent DC Kirby TPB of New Gods, Demon, OMAC, & Forever People have consistently outstanding trade design. I'd love to see a Kamandi Challenge OHC collected with Sook's excellent Sunday Paper Kamandi serial (from that Tabloid DC special project in the 10s) to show these great modern homages to a Kirby Classic. When you say you're planning to get the OMAC book are you saying that there's an OMAC stand alone omni?

Jed Walker is Kamandi's real name

I bought it just about one month ago. :)

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

So good.

ive been digging the Kamandi cartoons on HBO max

@Krypton_Ken

2 жыл бұрын

Just caught those recently, really cool and really well done.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Need to watch those

I just picked up this Omni. I too did not care for Kirby's art when I was young, but now that I am old, it far outshines a lot of other comic art. I recall a recent story, which I don't think was of Kirby's making, but I haven't read the book yet, that Kamandi was left at Command D jus prior to Dc's fabled Great Disaster. I still don't care much for Gil Kane comic art.

Kah mon dee? Kamandi got his name because he grew up in Command D with his grandfather. His name should be pronounced Kuhmandee and not a straight up Command D. This was my favorite comic book growing up so it's kind of an thing for me to insist that this is correct. If I am wrong, well I'm just going to stay wrong. All you have to do is read the books. And I think it was in issue 50 or so, 10 issues after Jack had left to go back to Marvel, that there was a retelling of the origin.

Have you seen the Kamandi short yet?

Hey Omar any news on a reprint of this??

kirby use to do comics for red circle comics also as know archie comics the fly the shield and others!

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Yes sir.

This has a beautiful Planet of the Apes vibe

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

It does brother.

I liked the Eternals when I was a Kid. (It was a New comic.)

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

It was a fun comic.

Have you read Luthor by Brian Azzarello?

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Not yet.

Are the three DC Jack Kirby omnibuses (fourth world, Kamandi, DC Bronze Age) all of Jack Kirby’s work at DC or is their more that he did at DC???

@hamzadawud

2 жыл бұрын

He did some stuff during the Golden Age too. There's actually an older style omnibus of his work on Green Arrow. Beyond that, I'm not entirely sure if there's anything that the three big Omnis missed.

@conroyjett

2 жыл бұрын

He did Challengers of the Unknown which was essentially the prototype for the Fantastic Four tropes at DC a few years before FF began. I believe they are available in various formats. I recently got the two DC archives that contain his run for $40 for the set.

@hamzadawud

2 жыл бұрын

@@conroyjett Oh yeah, good call!

Command-D. KO-(MAN)-D! Your'e killing me with your pronouciation!

@NearMintCondition

Жыл бұрын

See the other comments.

Kamandi is the best! I can’t believe DC hasn’t adapted it into a movie or TV show yet. It would work really well!

@Novaargh

2 жыл бұрын

Why does EVERY comic needs to be besmirched as a tvshow or movie?? Really, and you're even saying that with DC/WB/ATnT track record when it comes to comic adaptations.. no thanks pal, leave Kirby's stories alone and leave then between the pages where they belong

not the biggest fan of this series but still cool, I bought Jack's Eternals omnibus today after seeing the movie.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Eternals I thought was okay. I enjoyed this one more.

Love Kirby’s art so much. I also couldn’t appreciate it when I was young… stupid kids

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

lol you said it, brother.

Doubt we’ll see a stealth reprint after this long but there’s always a chance

@cullenn2100

2 жыл бұрын

It's still available, I just checked Penguin Random House

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Still in print. :)

@connorstephens7467

Жыл бұрын

@@cullenn2100 what about now?

@cullenn2100

Жыл бұрын

@@connorstephens7467 unfortunately no

Omar, do you have The Tooth by Cullen bunn, I really want to see that book

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t, good sir.

Any body else love issue 16 'the hostipal'

The reason it is a rip-off of Planet of the Apes is because Kirby wanted to do a Planet of the Apes comic but either DC couldn't get the license or passed on the project. He took the concepts and created Kamandi. Much like Larry Hama used his concepts for a SHIELD vs Hydra book that Marvel rejected and turned it into GI Joe.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, I mentioned a little in the video about why it was on purpose. But I didn't know the story concepts for Hama's Joe run came from pitches to Marvel about a SHIELD/Hydra book.

Pronounced and named after survival command post d

that 2 page spread at 9:50 looks so different here compared to the original omnibuses .. i really like the way the original omnibus looks but the binding sucks

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Its also the paper they used for those.

Kuh - MAN - dee. ty.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Shouldn’t I be thanking you.

@daviscomics9288

2 жыл бұрын

@@NearMintCondition no worries - love your takes and channel!

Kamandi wasn't a smart ass. Kamandi had heart, was always ready to fight for his life or to save a human. Kamandi wept when his grasshopper Klik Klak died. I think Kamandi wept again when he found out he wasn't alone, when he met the three mutants. Later after Jack Kirby left Kamandi developed a bloodlust, a rage, sort of the way Dean in Supernatural was after being possessed or something like that. And I thought the Superman tie it was weak and boring and non memorable. My favorite issues were "The Eater", the big worm that lived in the ground and the little mole men type monsters that lived down in the ground. Yeah, it's similar in the vein of The Mole Man, but there was no Mole Man, just digging creatures that lived in the ground. Kamandi saved the creatures because they were playing with bombs they found in the ground. Kamandi was always helping someone. I think the issue where the chemical leaks into the water to make the "animals" intelligent again is a masterpiece. How memorable Sacker was, the snake who was a goods trader. And Dr Canus is pronounced like CANINE. He's a DOG. K-nus, not Can nus. That's how I pronounce it anyway. And Kamandi was supposed to be the LAST BOY ON EARTH in that he had INTELLIGENCE that other humans lacked and he was becoming a MAN and he would have to fight everyday to prove himself, to save himself and others. Seeing Kamandi steal a Gorilla's vehicle, or to ride a motorcycle. Kamandi was just a kid who grew up in a bunker, was EDUCATED, was intelligent and then he was thrust into the world by himself when his grandfather was killed. Everything he did was what a boy becoming a MAN would do. When he was impulsive it was because he was IMMATURE. He had almost father figures in the three mutants, especially Ben Boxer. Or call him a big brother. And Dr Canus took Kamandi under his wing, as did one of the Tigers. I know one was a dad and one was a son but Kamandi was friends with Prince Tuftan. People liked Kamandi, the ones who were CIVILIZED anyway. The people who didn't like Kamandi were the ones who thought he was a stupid, dirty animal. It's like how in The Planet of the apes, Dr Zira saw something special in the Charlton Heston character. She could see the light in his eyes, the light of intelligence, but Heston couldn't talk due to the gunshot wound to his neck. In the Apes movie, Roddy Mc Dowell and Zira did the right thing and got Heston who took up with the mega hot NOVA, to safety. Anyway, Kamandi was NOT a smart ass, sometimes he might be, but mostly he was a good kid. He used a gun when he had to but he never went looking for trouble. Mostly Kamandi just stumbled from one dangerous situation to another, like Peter Parker/Spider-Man. Neither character could catch a break for long. I think both characters have a lot of heart, Pete and Kamandi. And you failed to mention the GLOSSY PAGES. I have the two volumes and the pages aren't GLOSSY. Now I want this Omnibus too.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

That's the way I read the character, but again I liked that about him. Yeah, the pages are glossy in this.

There was a neat Batman/Kamandi crossover! kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y4Jrs9ikZsy5faQ.html

Oh, is Walt's Comic Shop still a sponsor ?

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

Yes sir.

@jonny9884

2 жыл бұрын

@@NearMintCondition OK. Walt's has one copy of the Kamandi Omnibus at a great price, but it has a bumped spine. There are photos of the Omnibus one can check out, though.

i dont like 60s & 70s stuff Kamandi is one of very few comics i like from that era

The art is phenomenal but he digital recoloring of every comic still makes me sad (especially when the showcase original print on the cover)

Um..is it just me or does Kamandi looks alot like Kazar.

Ka-man-di not Ka-mon-di.

@NearMintCondition

Жыл бұрын

Yes. I know. Old habits.

This isn't ALF.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

I mean... in a way there are Alien Life Forms here.

I think Kamandi is much better than much of the other 4th World stuff. New Gods is beautifully drawn and there are great concepts but the writing is not very good.Forever People is very poor. Kamandi is a character you can engage with.

@NearMintCondition

2 жыл бұрын

I really love this book. And want to read more.

@garyl5128

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I grew up with Kirby's Marvel stuff, and continued to pick up his DC 4th Word stuff when he left because I loved his art. As you say, the art was still great, but the writing etc not so much. It's no wonder two of those titles were pulled after just 11 issues and the other after just 18 - they were selling less and less each month and many found them difficult to read and hard going. Not a patch on the Marvel stuff in comparison. Kamandi had a better vibe to it and was selling better so lasted longer. I still have some of those original books and enjoy looking through them from time to time, but that's as far as I go.

Hi

Not KOMONDI, my friend. K-AH-MANDI as in Command D where we are told his name came from in the first issue. It is so annoying to hear you mispronounce his name repeatedly throughout your review.