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Will there be any facilitators in attendance for this show? Please let me know -- thanks!

Awesome! I PM'd you. 

Hey Rich,

Are you still accepting books for Doug or has this ship sailed?

I bought some Silver Age Thor issues and I received quickly, packaged securely and safely. Will gladly do business with him again. Thanks!

Great guy to deal with, quick payment, and just a great transaction overall. He made my first sale on the boards extremely pleasant and rewarding. Iani98 is welcome back anytime. Thank you!

Awesome! Please do!

I can understand your feelings about Facebook, and certainly you have the right to do as you please, but I think you'd be doing a great thing for all of us Kirby fans to make this interview available in one form or another. Thanks for sharing even the portion you have already provided.

I kind of like the Fourth World is Earth theory. This theory says the 1st world was Asgard. The 2nd & 3rd worlds were Apokolips & New Genesis, derived from the destruction of Asgard in Ragnarok. In the series, Earth was an obvious fascination for the New Gods characters, a fascination Kirby never got around to explaining. Maybe because Earth would turn out to be the synthesis of dark & light, the Fourth World culmination of all that came before...

Nice! I've never heard that one before. After all, it was Earthlings who possessed the Anti-Life Equation, right?

 

I'm glad that Kirby didn't explain everything, and--whether intentional or not--left at least some of it open to interpretation. I'm guessing that's one reason among many why these stories have aged better than more concrete, topical fare from the same period (for example, the GL/GA stories by O'Neil and Adams), and probably why many post-Kirby treatments of the same characters have been (to me at least, and to varying degrees) unsatisfying. Kirby's soaring imagination routinely opened the door to new worlds, but also provided our imaginations with some tantalizing open spaces to fill.

 

Right, Zonker is right, but more than saying it was meant as a "synthesis of dark & light" is a theatre where contrasting forces are balanced (Orion and Lightray visits to Earth are very significant, in this sense – they quite struck me as a kid).

 

On the contrary, I don’t think it’s entirely correct to see the characters as being on a stage: Orion and Lightray just speak in that "godlike" language (in pagan sense) because they are indeed not human, but most humans speak in an ordinary way.

 

Since I have been talking about here and there and never posted anything, here’s an excerpt from my interview with Jack Kirby from 1991. The female voice asking the question first is my cousin-in-law which graciously hosted me when I came to the US. The question revolves mostly around Orion and Darkseid’s relationship.

 

This clip is fantastic! Thank you so much for posting this! Is the rest of the interview available online somewhere?

That's awesome! That is part one of my all-time favorite runs. That title is not easy to get right and Walt absolutely nailed it. Congrats on the grading! I love the signature too.

Thank you!

Al Plastino is a real character! I thought it was never gonna happen, but somehow it went from incredibly tense to parting like buddies. I plan on seeing him again at the Florida Supercon next summer, but I'll limit the books to less controversial choices.

Hey everyone,

I've been quietly admiring some of these gorgeous books that you all have and was hoping one of these days that I might have something worthwhile to contribute.

Action Comics 254 is the only signed one on the census

He signed both books on the interior splash.