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Kamandi Last Boy on Earth Member |
posted April 16, 2003 02:49 PM
 
How many appearances did Kamandi make outside of his own title? OCD's Map lists the Weird War backups, CCC and Karate Kid. I know he also appeared in B&B. IP: Logged |
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Kamandi Last Boy on Earth Member |
posted April 16, 2003 03:09 PM
I've answered my own question: Brave and the Bold (first series) #120 (first story) [July 1975] From the Silver Age Appearance list: http://members.tripod.com/~jrh7925/final-k.html#kama IP: Logged |
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Coleo Member |
posted April 16, 2003 03:09 PM
There were two B&B team-ups with Batman (or "Captain Bat"), in #120 and #157. Kamandi also met Superman in DC Comics Presents #64. Finally, he was featured in the first few issues of Crisis on Infinite Earths, as one of the champions hand-picked by the Monitor to confront the Crisis. Cole IP: Logged |
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outpost2 Member |
posted April 16, 2003 03:10 PM
A while back, I had reviewed all of Kamandi's appearances to see if I could figure out where all the crossovers fit in. The lists under each volume show the results of the analysis. Hope this helps.
KAMANDI ARCHIVES vol. 2
KAMANDI ARCHIVES vol. 3
KAMANDI ARCHIVES vol. 4
KAMANDI ARCHIVES vol. 5
KAMANDI ARCHIVES vol. 6
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Kamandi Last Boy on Earth Member |
posted April 16, 2003 03:16 PM
Good work outpost! IP: Logged |
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arromdee New Member |
posted April 16, 2003 03:23 PM
Good call on Superman #295. I had completeyl forgotten about that until it was mentioned here, but it really is pretty essential to a Kamandi series. IP: Logged |
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outpost2 Member |
posted April 16, 2003 03:47 PM
When you see it broken down like this, the problems of multi-part stories from the 70s and 80s become apparent. Take Kamandi #30-34 as an example. If you don't include the crossovers, you have the undesireable side-effect of spreading a five-part story over two volumes. I think we're going to see this more and more when they start reprinting Bronze Age material. Besides, whether you include the crossovers or not, it'll still end up taking six volumes to complete, so why not get the extra material for the same price? IP: Logged |
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NecessaryImpurity Member |
posted April 16, 2003 08:08 PM
With the introduction of the slim Archive for the Challengers, I suppose we could also introduce a jumbo Archive, to better give the compiler the flexibility to fit story arcs in one volume. You might see something like Regular, Regular, Slim, Jumbo, Regular, Jumbo, Slim. Whether DC wants to (or, given the market, can) charge extra for the Jumbo is another matter. The "Batman Archives, V1" is probably about the size of a Jumbo, at around 300 pages. Notice that it isn't going for a premium. It ain't easy being a compiler, is it Mr. G.? IP: Logged |
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profh0011 Member |
posted April 17, 2003 05:44 PM
"Kamandi #29 : Eastern Quebec, near the start of the Land Bridge Kamandi #30-34 : UFO active island in the center of the northern Atlantic Ocean" Is there a land bridge connecting North America with Europe? (It's sad, but I've never read ANY of these.) If so, it's neat how "consistent" Kirby was, as this would explain how THUNDARR, OOKLA & ARIEL were able to travel to England on horseback... IP: Logged |
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outpost2 Member |
posted April 17, 2003 05:48 PM
quote: Yup. And according to the world maps given, it's huge. It was built by Superman. I don't remember off-hand why he built it, but it was during the planetary upheavel of the Great Disaster. IIRC, he disappeared while performing this mighty task. IP: Logged |
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GreatBear Member |
posted April 17, 2003 09:58 PM
quote: I had never thought of it, but Kirby was the concept artist for Thundarr, wasn't he? Much of what I can remember of Thundarr fits well with the Great Diaster. Too bad it's not on DVD so I actually see it again. IP: Logged |
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Mike Falcon Member |
posted April 17, 2003 10:18 PM
I belive Alex Toth did the three main charecter designs for Thundarr. Kirby did most everything else. Check out Mark Evanier's POV site for the information. IP: Logged |
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Mike Falcon Member |
posted April 17, 2003 10:28 PM
This is from the site I mentioned above: One thing it did not have was good animation. Alex Toth designed the three central characters, and Jack Kirby designed everything else. So you had a lot of terrific art that was then processed by the cheapest-possible animation house. When I see the shows now, I can't believe they put some of that stuff on the air, but they did. At the time, the "bar" for acceptable animation on TV was a lot lower than it is now. IP: Logged |
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profh0011 Member |
posted April 17, 2003 10:34 PM
I made a joke some weeks back that KAMANDI grew up to become THUNDARR. It's not such a wild idea... Cartoon Network began rerunning the shows on late Saturday night @ 3:30 AM (right after JONNY QUEST) and unlike every other show I've seen them running, incredibly, they've been running it in the original network order! My videotapes from 1980 have been a bit fuzzy, so since I've been up that late anyway I've been watching the show again. They're running it uncut with only one commercial break in the middle-- and they're even running the end credits complete without voice-overs. When the show aired on the network originally, strangely they DIDN'T include the end credits! They go by real fast, but it's amazing how many names I recognize as having been a part of the show, including Marty Pasko, Mark Evanier, Doug Wildey. Of course, Jack did the storyboards (designing virtually everything apart from the 3 leads), and I know from an old interview that Steve Gerber was the show's story editor! Coming right at the tail-end of a decade of horrible censorship on Saturday mornings, the show was a breath of fresh air-- imaginitive, fun and EXCITING, as the writers continually found ways around the idiotic restrictions of the times. IP: Logged |
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profh0011 Member |
posted April 17, 2003 10:41 PM
"One thing it did not have was good animation. Alex Toth designed the three central characters, and Jack Kirby designed everything else. So you had a lot of terrific art that was then processed by the cheapest-possible animation house. When I see the shows now, I can't believe they put some of that stuff on the air, but they did. At the time, the "bar" for acceptable animation on TV was a lot lower than it is now." At the time, it was the BEST DAMN THING on the air. It suffers in comparison to JONNY QUEST (everything does) as well as SPACE GHOST and HERCULOIDS (the animation, anyway) and many later shows-- but when it was on, it totally blew away EVERYTHING that had come out in the 1970's by a mile. I think it's a tragedy they only made 21 episodes... IP: Logged |
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