Kamandi! The Last Boy at DC!

Kirby is coming”. It was splashed across ads for DC comics in the early 70s. It was the biggest thing to hit the ever-shrinking comics world since the Batman TV series. Jack Kirby, a (the?) mainstay of Marvel Comics, erstwhile partner of Stan ‘the Man’ Lee, was leaving the company he’d help lift to popularity with his shear talent, and going to Marvel’s greatest rival, DC Comics. Worlds shook that day. When Jack arrived, he was there to shake those worlds even more.

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The Joker’s Not So Wild! The Clown Prince of Crime in His Own Magazine!

The Joker’s ‘team-up’ with Batman (Brave and the Bold #111, Feb-March 1974) was one of the best-selling issues the title had up ‘til then. Psycho killer be damned! Here was a character just crying out for his own title, and Infantino, Julie Schwartz and Denny O’Neil would give it to him!

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