{"id":4143,"date":"2017-05-25T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2017-05-25T22:57:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T02:57:03","slug":"the-big-boom-k005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/4143","title":{"rendered":"“The Big Boom” (k005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“The Big Boom” is a 23-page Kirby story from\u00a0SUPERMAN’S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #138 [1971], inked by Vincent Colletta with additional art on some figures by Murphy Anderson.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is the conclusion of Kirby”s story that began in #133, and kicked off what’s become known as the “Fourth World”. The ending is kind of abrupt, as Kirby’s original plans\u00a0apparently conflicted with some stuff planned from the New York offices, so changed course with this issue (Mark Evanier later did a story based on notes from Kirby’s original plot in LEGENDS OF THE DC UNIVERSE #14 [1999]). \u00a0The story as published is still pretty exciting, with a 15-minute countdown to doomsday, as the Four-Armed Terror created by the Evil Factory beats a path of destruction towards the atomic power plant of the DNA Project, threatening an explosion which will take out Metropolis (with a very funny scene of Morgan Edge, pawn of Darkseid, making plans to escape, leaving his underlings behind).<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.comics.org\/issue\/24316\/#167049
\nJIMMY OLSEN – ADVENTURES BY JACK KIRBY #1 [2003]
\nJACK KIRBY’S FOURTH WORLD OMNIBUS #1 [2007]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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