You know Jack Kirby's work passingly well by now, yes? So if we encounter Cadmus, post-apocalyptic evolved animals, and a scientist's chair that travels at unfathomable speeds between worlds you've probably got a fair idea of when & where we are in The King's career, right?
Are you thinking 1950s at Harvey or 1970s at DC?
When we talk about that flying chair, which are you picturing?
Alarming Tales #1 was quite the little atemporal oddity. We've looked at it before, and this is why i promised to come back to it. This one issue seems to reflect the future in little ways. First, we have a Cadmus project...
...then, instead of a last survivor of the old world, we have a time traveler transported to an evolved animal future...
...and lastly we have that cover story, with which my mind was happily playing tricks on me. At first, his name appeared to me as Donnovan -
That's what happens when fresh deities leave their toys laying around...
all pages drawn by Jack Kirby for Alarming Tales #1 (1957), Metron by Kirby from The Hunger Dogs (1985)
