We spoke of Jack Kirby's collages last time. Let's take a look at an experiment done in Spirit World magazine. (You want a number? Fine. #1. But #2 was never printed, so generally it's implied. Okay?) Spirit World was one of a pair of magazines that came out during The King's 1970s period at DC, the other being In The Days Of The Mob. While both were advertised in the comics that came to our local stand back in those pre-comicshop days, the only way to get the actual magazines for us was to mail away for them. That made them very rare for us, and probably hurt sales tremendously since neither magazine continued past the pilot issue.Jack and his assistants (Steve Sherman & Mark Evanier, names to note) edited the magazines and produced most of the material. Collages were used on several occasions, and in one instance they formed the graphics for the entire story. It's only 3 pages in length, so lets take a look. First, here's how it's described in the table of contents:
...and now, our feature presentation...
For those of you who weren't there - Welcome to the 70s. (It was only 1971, but Jack was always a bit ahead of schedule)
Children Of The Flaming Wheel! by Jack Kirby from Spirit World #1(1971)
Considering that these mags were supposed to be difficult to find in America, they popped up on this side of the pond and were readily available. Shame there was only one published issue of each.
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