Publisher:
DC Comics
Cover Date:
January, 1973
Art Type:
Pin-up
Pencil
Character(s):
OMAC, Professor Brainwave
History:
Unpublished
Size:
11.7 x 16.5 in. (29.8 x 42 cm)
Credits:
Penciler:
Jack Kirby
Scans of this art courtesy of Albert Moy Comic Art
Notes:
Actual creation month is not known.
Average Rating:
My Rating:
Kirby Koncepts
While this page does not feature highly finished art, it was never intended to. What it does do is point out just what a prodigiously creative writer Jack was. More than any other writer in comics history, the story ideas just flowed relentlessly out of his unbelievably fertile mind. Jack probably sat down and knocked this out in only a few minutes, but look at all the cool concepts he's presented here! It's interestng to see this piece and compare which of these ideas made it into the actual series or maybe morphed into other ideas (like the "country for sale" idea being used as "Rent a City" in OMAC #2).
The Kirby Idea Machine
Having been to Jack's house I always had this vision of a man who slept only when exhausted, his mind kept awake by the constant flow of ideas as he walked around the yard puffing on his cigar. As many have said, he used up more ideas in a single issue than most use in an entire series of a book. This page just gives us another glimpse into what might have been.
Remarkable. I love these
Remarkable. I love these quick sketches and concept notes. The drawings are so clean and precise (envy, envy ^_^). I approached Kirby a few times at a few San Diego Conventions. I just told him much I loved his stories and artworks.
OMAC -- our world in a lot of ways
It's interesting to think about how many OMAC ideas have become part of real life (correcting for Kirbyfication) -- Just on this page: use of prisoners for organ transplants -- using phone calls to set off explosives -- entire countries for sale -- not unusual events. So I say, watch out for the poisonous clothes and pirate fish -- in more mundane but still dangerous real-life versions.
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