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Kamandi was the most successful of the Kirby books at DC at the time. It is a very fun read. Each issue takes about 5 minutes to read

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[Jeffro.]

Kamandi was the most successful of the Kirby books at DC at the time. It is a very fun read. Each issue takes about 5 minutes to read

 

I need to re-read those

[Crimebuster]

Kamandi was the most successful of the Kirby books at DC at the time. It is a very fun read. Each issue takes about 5 minutes to read

 

This month's issue of Alter Ego has an interview with Gerry Conway, who scripted a few issues of Kamandi, and he had some interesting comments about how successful the series actually was.

 

He said that Kamandi wasn't necessarily selling any better than Kirby's Fourth World stuff, but Carmine Infantino was basically a terrible editor in chief. According to Conway, Infantino didn't make decisions based on how well books were actually selling, but rather on how well he thought they should be selling. Infantino just didn't understand the Fourth World stuff, so he didn't think it would sell well in the long run, and therefore he cancelled it all. But Kamandi was a simple enough idea for him to understand, so he figured it would probably sell better than it actually was selling, and therefore he kept publishing it.

 

So if Conway is to be believed, Kamandi lasted much longer not because it was actually more successful, but because Infantino felt it should be. And because he didn't get the Fourth World stuff it was all cancelled despite equivalent sales.