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The splash page of Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #135, takes us, full bore, right into the Apokoliptian plot to sabotage The Project, Supes, Jimmy and the gang. No more shadowy background plotting; now we start to see details of The Evil Factory, Mokkari, Simyan, the Superman-hating giant… and the Superman, J.O. and Newsboy Legion mini-clones.
Ah yes, “Apokoliptian”… I like it. Has a nice ring to it! (lol)
What doesn’t have a nice ring — or look — are Vinnie Colletta’s inks on that splash page. I hate to sound like just another Colletta-basher, but honestly, Vince, WHAT THE ****!!?
And for a look at a similar opening-page composition, check out the splash to Jack’s phenomenal story, “Mother!” in Eternals #10.
Nice catch!
Gawd, I almost love Mad Mike’s logo work and lettering as much as I do his inks on Jack’s pencils… so cartoony and appropriate!
Royer was the only inker who got Kirby right, because he inked the blueprint like pencils Kirby produced starting around 1966 with almost complete fidelity. Personally, I’d much rather have seen Joe Sinnott inking his own pencils than Kirby’s, and that would go for Wally Wood as well.
Funny the one time young Mike strayed from the straight and narrow, it supplied us with a chance to see Kirby ink Big Barda’s face. In Mister Miracle #5, Kirby pasted new faces he’d inked himself over Mike’s wanderings. See page nine, panel three for a good look at the real deal.
One of the things that struck me as I began re-reading this series yesterday, was just how creepy it all is. A secret underground Government Project that has covertly sampled peoples DNA for the purpose of building an army of clones? That’s a paranoid’s nightmare! The benign manner in which it is all portrayed seems really out of step with the times these days, harking back to a time when people had more faith in their Government’s motivations, as I’m sure those of Jack’s generation must have had. Later we find out The Project has brought back the dead Guardian, and created an alien species in the form of Dubbilex! And, in the last panel of page 21, Superman worries about the “Hidden Enemy,” and what He might be doing with the stolen human cells. A bit hypocritical if you ask me, and creepy. A lot of creepy.
Love the little costumes… it seems The Project and The Evil Factory mastered the ability to “grow” the clothing according to the size of the host; or maybe Jack was just thinking of the Code. The origins of the process can be seen in Simon & Kirby’s “The Cadmus Seed,” from Alarming Tales (visible at Pappy’s Golden Age, among other places).
The Project is certainly creepy, but as I mentioned in a previous comment, it doesn’t strike me that Kirby is endorsing The Project.
Superman compares The Project to the Manhattan Project in Olsen #135, and Jimmy Olsen expresses his well-founded concerns in JO #136, on page 21. It’s quite obvious from the start that things aren’t going exactly as planned with The Project as is born out by The Evil Factory, resulting in a DNA-based arms race.
Superman might be every bit as expected to step in and eliminate the Earth’s stockpile of nuclear weapons as he would be expected to halt the government sanctioned Project.
Kirby’s attitude toward the military and government was nuanced.
His son, Neal Kirby, described Kirby’s attitude toward the draft in a TJKC interview.
I was reading “Glory Boat” today, while my poor honey was recovering from a medical procedure (she’s okay), and I was struck with Jack’s depiction of Farley Sheridan, capitalist with a hardhat political bent, and fellow World War II veteran (“Well, at least I fought,” he snarls to his pacifist son. “When my outfit hit the beach at Normandy, I walked into that rain of bullets with the rest of them!!”). This reactionary bore was a contemporary of Jack, so to speak, who fought on the same continent, on the same side, probably the same age… and Jack pegged him cold! Obviously The King identified more with son Richard, the conscientious objector, as a real hero…
Interesting take, Patrick. For my own part, I believe Superman is heartily endorsing The Project as he conducts his tour. The comparison to The Manhattan Project was an apt one, inasmuch as scientific advances like atomic bombs were regarded as a good/safe thing, as long as they remained in the right hands. Namely ours, and Jimmy seems to take the news he has been cloned without his knowledge remarkably well, considering. Despite the fact that Kirby, like many Americans, was against the war in Vietnam, I still believe that he, like many of his contemporaries, believed The Government, and Scientific Community to be of a benevolent nature. Forty years later, with cloning a reality, and conspiracy theories abounding, this scenario reads a lot darker. Kirby’s work often seemed prescient, and I can’t help but wonder, if somewhere out there, something like The Project might exist. Any day now, we could be attacked by giant green Jimmy Olsens, and four-armed freaks!
Kirby returned again to the dangers of genetic manipulation in Silver Star.
In Amazing Heroes #47, Kirby commented on the pitfalls of technology given his realistic view of power, and those who wield it.
This is the same attitude described by Kirby in his comment on the Jupiter Plaque.
Kirby’s feeling is the odds are those with the ambition to seek out new worlds, will likely be predators.
Metron is perhaps the most fascinating character in the Fourth World mythos. As a kid, I couldn’t wrap my head around him — he was too ill-defined for my taste, neither good nor evil, too ambivalent, too complex… But I never dismissed him; just thought he was beyond me.
Now, I am even more captivated. The apple in the Garden of Eden: It was knowledge, right? Knowledge (and hence culture), that’s what got us expelled from the Garden, correct?
Yes, there’s amazing, stupendous technology in Supertown, the city that floats above New Genesis, but the planet itself is a veritable Garden of Eden. Is, ultimately, Supertown a threat to New Genesis?
Jack was really digging deeply into the Essential Questions.
Jon,
Not to belabor the point, but I think it’s an important one.
If we turn over a couple calender pages to Jimmy Olsen #142, we find Kirby expounding again on his realistic view of man and government.
Jimmy Olsen questions Superman about his involvement in another super secret government project.
Superman presents the same serious, almost grim attitude he displayed when explaining the DNA to Jimmy Olsen on page 11 of JO #135.
Kirby’s Superman is not going to act as the Government’s policeman, he’s more of a fireman.
Kirby’s own attitude as narrator is (I think) fairly explicit.
Note these lines from JO #143 with Kirby speaking as narrator.
I think Jack was, like so many Americans of his age who rose out of the Great Depression with help from the New Deal, was in transition about his feelings about government, but I do suspect he was more realistic than most regarding power and the corruption of same. The late ’60s and early ’70s were full of contradictions: Take, for instance, national pride about the Apollo moon missions and converse lack of faith in the U.S. war effort in Vietnam. Watergate and the fall of Saigon started (or continued) a schism that is reverberating very strongly today (particularly in the upcoming November elections, I suspect!).
Jack often didn’t think well of man, but he thought very kindly of humanity, if that makes sense.