![]() ![]() But that is the approach that was originally made and was repeated for the reprint. Instead a wash was applied to the line art and the results were printed using a dark cyan ink. Kirby wanted Spirit World to be a high quality magazine printed in color but that is not the way DC would publish it. “Amazing Predictions” page 3 (from the reprint) ![]() But everything Jack did he did well so it is great to see this work back in print. It is not even a cult classic, it rarely comes up in discussions about Jack Kirby’s art. DC’s confidence in it was so low that it was cancelled after a single issue, much too soon to be based on any sales figures. Mark Evanier describes not being able to locate any copies at newsstands but finding bundles of them at a distributor’s warehouse that had never been delivered. It received remarkably poor distribution. Spirit World was by no means a Kirby classic. ![]() Had someone told me a decade ago that DC would reprint Spirit World I would not have believed them, actually I would have thought they had lost their grip on reality. What a marvelous time this is for Kirby fans as more and more of his work is being reprinted. ![]() I got a pleasant surprise when I visited my comic book store last night, DC’s reprint of Spirit World. ![]()
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