The Kamandi Archives - DC Comics Message Boards

DC Universe [all categories]

DC Universe Archives

The Kamandi Archives (Page 1)

profile | register | preferences | faq

UBBFriend: Email This Page to Someone!
This topic is 5 pages long: 1 2 3 4 5

next newest topic | next oldest topic

Author	Topic: The Kamandi Archives
Owen Cardiff Darcy Member	posted October 20, 2002 08:14 AM THE KAMANDI ARCHIVES VOL. 1 (224 pages) Written by Jack Kirby; art and cover by Kirby and Mike Royer KAMANDI #1-10 Kamandi #1 (Oct.-Nov. 1972) "The Last Boy on Earth" (22 pages + cover) Kamandi #2 "Year of the Rat" (22 pages + cover) Kamandi #3 "The Thing That Grew on the Moon" (22 pages + cover) Kamandi #4 "The Devil's Arena" (22 pages + cover) Kamandi #5 "The One-Armed Bandit" (23 pages + cover) Kamandi #6 "Flower" (23 pages + cover) Kamandi #7 "The Monster Fetish" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #8 "Beyond Reason" (20 pages + cover) 182 Kamandi #9 "Tracking Site" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #10 "Killer Germ" (20 pages + cover) THE KAMANDI ARCHIVES VOL. 2 (210 pages) Written by Jack Kirby; art by Kirby, Mike Royer, and D. Bruce Berry; cover by Kirby and Royer KAMANDI #11-20 Kamandi #11 "The Devil" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #12 "The Devil and Mister Sacker" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #13 "Hell At Hialeah" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #14 "Winner Take All" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #15 (March 1974) "The Watergate Secrets" (20 pages + cover) (Dr. Canus and Tuftan make a deal with Mr. Sacker for Kamandi's release: they must go with Tuftan's troops in search of the legendary Watergate Tapes. Kamandi sings lyrics from the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" in this story.) Kamandi #16 "The Hospital" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #17 "The Human Gophers of Ohio" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #18 "The Eater" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #19 "The Last Gang in Chicago" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #20 "The Electric Chair" (20 pages + cover) THE KAMANDI ARCHIVES VOL. 3 (208 pages) Written by Jack Kirby; art and cover by Kirby and D. Bruce Berry KAMANDI #21-30 Kamandi #21 "The Fish" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #22 "The Red Baron" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #23 "Kamandi and Goliath" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #24 "The Exorcism" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #25 "Freak Show" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #26 "The Heights of Abraham" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #27 "Mad Marine" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #28 "Enforce the Atlantic Testament" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #29 "Mighty One" (20 pages + cover) Kamandi #30 "U.F.O. The Wildest Trip Ever" (18 pages + cover) THE KAMANDI ARCHIVES VOL. 4 (195 pages) Written by Jack Kirby, and Gerry Conway; art by Kirby, Joe Kubert, D. Bruce Berry, and Mike Royer; cover by Kirby and Berry KAMANDI #31-40 Kamandi #31 "The Gulliver Effect" (18 pages + cover) Kamandi #32 "Me" (23 pages + cover) Kamandi #33 "Blood and Fire" (18 pages + cover) Kamandi #34 "Pretty Pyra" (18 pages + cover) Kamandi #35 "The Soyuz Survivor" (18 pages + cover) Kamandi #36 "The Hotel" (18 pages + cover) Kamandi #37 "The Crater People" (18 pages + cover) Kamandi #38 "Pyra Revealed" (18 pages + cover) Kamandi #39 "The Airquarium" (18 pages + cover) Kamandi #40 "The Lizard Lords of Los Lorraine" (18 pages + cover) THE KAMANDI ARCHIVES VOL. 5 (194 pages) Written and illustrated by various KAMANDI #41-50, and WEIRD WAR TALES #51 and 52 Kamandi #41 "The Hollywood Hounds" (18 pages + cover) Kamandi #42 "Gunfight at Coyote Corral" (18 pages + cover) Kamandi #43 (17 pages + cover) "A Connecticut Mutant In Great Caesar's Court" (11 pages) "Homecoming" (6 pages) Kamandi #44 (17 pages + cover) "The Merchant of Menace" (11 pages) "The Prince and the Pawn" (6 pages) Kamandi #45 (17 pages + cover) "This Murder Is X-Rayted" (11 pages) "The Apocalypse Machine" (6 pages) Kamandi #46 (17 pages + cover) "The Wrath and the Fury" (11 pages) "Finale" (6 pages) Kamandi #47 "Assault On the Clouds" (17 pages + cover) Kamandi #48 "The Betrayal" (17 pages + cover) Kamandi #49 "Trial By Fear" (17 pages + cover) Kamandi #50 "The Death Worshippers" (17 pages + cover) Weird War Tales #51 "A Canterbury Tail" (6 pages) (Tales of the Great Disaster) Weird War Tales #52 "Calamity From the Clyde" (6 pages) (Tales of the Great Disaster) THE KAMANDI ARCHIVES VOL. 6 (205 pages) Written by Jack C. Harris, Steve Englehart, and Bob Rozakis; art by Dick Ayers, Juan Ortiz, Alfredo Alcala, Danny Bulandi, and various KAMANDI #51-59, KARATE KID #15 and CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2 Kamandi #51 "The Next To the Last Boy On Earth" (17 pages + cover) Kamandi #52 "Sing a Song of Survival" (17 pages + cover) Kamandi #53 "The Catnip Connection" (17 pages + cover) Kamandi #54 "The Eternity Trap" (17 pages + cover) Kamandi #55 "The Vortex Beast" (17 pages + cover) Kamandi #56 "The Sign of Three" (17 pages + cover) Kamandi #57 "Behold: Evermore" (17 pages + cover) Karate Kid #15 "Bring Back My Future To Me!" (17 pages + cover) Kamandi #58 "Enter: The Legionnaire" (17 pages + cover) Kamandi #59 "The Wondrous Western Wall" (17 pages + cover) Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2 (Fall 1978) (25 pages) Cover art (1 page) "Into the Vortex" (17 pages) (Story and cover art intended for Kamandi #60.) "I'll See You In My Nightmares" (7 pages) (Framing sequence for a story originally intended for Sandman (1st series) #7. Both the Sandman story and the framing sequence were to appear in Kamandi #61. Only the framing sequence is included in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2. The Sandman story was eventually published in Best of DC (Digest) #22 (1982).) IP: Logged
GreatBear Member	posted October 20, 2002 06:33 PM If only.... IP: Logged
Cave Carson Member	posted October 20, 2002 07:02 PM Volume one (especially) would be very, very good. You've sold me! ------------------ "I am viscerally opposed to a prolonged occupation of a Muslim country at the heart of the Muslim world by Western nations who proclaim the right to re-educate that country," said the former secetary of state, Henry A. Kissinger, who as a young man served as a district administrator in the military government of occupied Germany. IP: Logged
JayFlip Member	posted October 20, 2002 07:24 PM I have no great love for Kamandi, i.e., never read a story featuring the character and don't even know much about him. But I would buy any archive that featured art by Jack Kirby. IP: Logged
Mike Falcon Member	posted October 20, 2002 07:44 PM I picked up Kamandi #1 (for 5$!!!) not too long ago. Even though Kirby was "paying homage" to the "Planet of the Apes" in such an obvious way I still enjoyed it. I wouldn't mind seeing an Archive or two. ------------------ In memory of Jeff Rigdon 1971-2002. You were too good for this world. IP: Logged
Jack Benny Member	posted October 23, 2002 02:56 AM Kamandi also had two appearances in Brave and the Bold. #120 and #157 if I remember correctly. Did Kamandi appear in DC Comics Presents? Did anyone read that Kamandi mini-series from the early 90's? Any good? IP: Logged
Steve Topper Member	posted October 23, 2002 08:39 AM There were actually two Kamandi Elseworlds stories in the 90s (Kamandi at Earth's End, a six-issue mini, and Superman at Earth's End, a one-shot). Like most Elseworlds, they really contorted the characters. I wouldn't bother including them in any archive collection of Kamandi material. Opinions on the stories themselves -- I personally enjoyed the different take, but it wasn't Kamandi. Can't remember the writer, but I think Tom Veitch did the art. Definitely worth picking up from the dollar bins if you can find them. Kamandi also appeared in DC Comics Presents #64. Steve IP: Logged
GreatBear Member	posted October 27, 2002 02:24 PM Prince Tuftan and other supporting characters appeared in the current Superboy series around #50 I believe. A very cool homage to Kamandi called "The Last Superboy on Earth" IP: Logged
Dave the Wonder Boy Member	posted November 02, 2002 01:04 PM I was thinking the inside front and back covers of these volumes could feature the double-page map of Kamandi's world. Great idea to map out the volumes, Owen. IP: Logged
Dave the Wonder Boy Member	posted December 30, 2002 04:13 AM A four-volume set of KAMANDI archives hardcovers... is it just a dream? IP: Logged
HighlandRay Member	posted December 30, 2002 07:31 AM Add my name to list of people who would love to see the Kamandi series archived IP: Logged
? Member	posted December 30, 2002 10:20 AM Kamandi will always hold a special place to me. I grew up in the seventies, and I as lame as it sounds, Prince Tuftan was my imaginary friend for a while. (If you tell anyone this, I'll deny it and kill you in your sleep.) ------------------ "My name is Mark....Question Mark..." Posting by interdimensional relay from my home on Earth-1. IP: Logged
HighlandRay Member	posted December 30, 2002 10:26 AM Prince Tuftan was your imaginary friend .... you mean he's not real!!!!! IP: Logged
? Member	posted December 30, 2002 10:34 AM Well, you never know. It could have been a pooka.... ------------------ "My name is Mark....Question Mark..." Posting by interdimensional relay from my home on Earth-1. IP: Logged
quincyjb Member	posted December 30, 2002 10:59 AM Count me in for a copy of this. I have only read a few early issues from this series, but they were a lot of fun. This would be a pleasant change from the spandex-clad mysteryman set that understandably dominates the archives. IP: Logged
HighlandRay Member	posted December 30, 2002 11:04 AM I have all of the original floppies, in fact I have everything that Kirby did when he returned to DC in the '70s, but I would still love to have them all archives... I can only dream. However, if Challengers sells well, you never know. Now if we all buy 10 copies each........ IP: Logged
GreatBear Member	posted December 30, 2002 01:31 PM I'm on board for any Kamandi/Earth A.D. project. quote: I grew up in the seventies, and I as lame as it sounds, Prince Tuftan was my imaginary friend for a while. Hey "?" did you catch Tuftan's appearance in the Superboy #49-52 "The Last Superboy on Earth" a couple years back? IP: Logged
? Member	posted December 30, 2002 05:06 PM quote: Originally posted by GreatBear: I'm on board for any Kamandi/Earth A.D. project. Hey "?" did you catch Tuftan's appearance in the Superboy #49-52 "The Last Superboy on Earth" a couple years back? Yeah. I got a real kick out of that. ------------------ "My name is Mark....Question Mark..." Posting by interdimensional relay from my home on Earth-1. IP: Logged
kcekada Member	posted December 30, 2002 10:01 PM I'd be shocked if there was enough demand to produce a Kamandi archive. I think there would be a better chance of reprinting Kamandi if it was included with other 3rd string characters that don't merit their own archives. KC IP: Logged
quincyjb Member	posted December 30, 2002 11:59 PM quote: I think there would be a better chance of reprinting Kamandi if it was included with other 3rd string characters that don't merit their own archives. I don't understand what the above quote means. Are you suggesting that a whole bunch of series featuring minor characters be combined into a single reprint series? I agree that Kamandi is a 3rd stringer. However, I would say he does merit an archive, and that sales would be similar to the average archive volume. Despite the character's obscurity, it will be popular with the Kirby fandom. Also, it is basically a fun, interesting read that will appeal to most fans who pick up Silver Age archives. IP: Logged
GreatBear Member	posted December 31, 2002 12:52 AM quote: Originally posted by kcekada: I think there would be a better chance of reprinting Kamandi if it was included with other 3rd string characters that don't merit their own archives.KC I wouldn't say Kamandi was a top tier character, but he seems to be popular here in the archive forum and he had his own full length comic that ran for 59 issues - Not something that needs to be filled out with other stories. If a series like Challengers of the Unknown rates an archive why not Kamandi? It was created, written and drawn by the "King" himself. IP: Logged
James Friel Member	posted December 31, 2002 02:57 AM Kamandi was never my cup of tea. I just never could take all those humanoid animals seriously--too much like people in masks; not nearly alien enough. Still, it was a fairly important feature at the time, and it certainly still has its fans. I think it deserves to be archived--eventually. If it was up to me, that would probably mean between 5-10 years from now, after the great sf strips of the '50s and '60s have their shot. IP: Logged
kcekada Member	posted December 31, 2002 12:08 PM Yes, I was suggesting that Kamandi be reprinted with other series that don't merit their own archives. Just seems to out of left field to me. But I suppose it could appeal to die hard Kirby fans. I think most people would want to see the 4th World stuff before they'd want a Kamandi collection. KC IP: Logged
Dave the Wonder Boy Member	posted December 31, 2002 05:09 PM I respectfully disagree about Kamandi being too obscure, I think the demand for KAMANDI is there. At one time during the Kirby run, I recall reading that it was DC's best-selling title. KAMANDI is certainly popular enough to sell a small print run of hardcovers to a core of regular Archive collectors. I say DC should do it. And after that, Kirby's Fourth World books (FOREVER PEOPLE 1-11, NEW GODS 1-11, MR MIRACLE 1-9, and vol two, issues 10-18, JIMMY OLSEN 133-139,141-148). And then hopefully an OMAC volume as well. I think it was a bad decision for DC to recently release several of these in b & w. I would have eagerly bought either trades or hardcovers of these in color, rather than passing on them, as I did in b & w. The same is true of KAMANDI for me. Color trades or color hardcovers, either would be great. But obviously hardcovers would be greater. IP: Logged
? Member	posted December 31, 2002 05:53 PM It's safe to say that Kamandi had the broadest appeal of any of Kirby's DC books (if not necessarily the highest sales. I don't know about sales figures), simply because it reached an audience that included traditionally non-comics readers. I've heard from a lot of people who "only read Kamandi" in the seventies. Not many books have succeeded in that way. Star Wars, GI Joe, Transformers and other movie/cartoon/toy tie-ins usually are the only ones that are like this. I suppose Kamandi managed it because of the "Planet of the Apes" similarity. ------------------ "My name is Mark....Question Mark..." Posting by interdimensional relay from my home on Earth-1. IP: Logged

This topic is 5 pages long: 1 2 3 4 5 All times are ET (US)	next newest topic \| next oldest topic
Administrative Options: Close Topic \| Archive/Move \| Delete Topic
	Hop to:

Contact Us | DC Comics