Kamandi the Last Boy On Earth -Kirby 1974

[kennermike]

any fans? sorry typo series ran from 1972 to 1978 DC comics

[kryptosmaster]

One of my favorite titles/characters of all-time. One of the first comic runs I completed.
A rotten shame what DC did to the Kamandi timeline.
I'd love to see a Kamandi movie some day.
Rich

[Joe90]

Kamandi has been a topic here in the past...

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[johnmiic]

I love Kamandi. I tried the "re-imagined" title they had in the 1990's and it stunk. They tried to make it darker. The world has ended and mankind is an endangered spieces-how much darker do you wanna get!?!?!?! Kirby's version will always rule.

[B-Lister]

I was introduced to Kamandi in 1990, or thereabouts. I am now working on a complete run.


totally loved the character in "Wednesday Comics".

[The Bat]

LOVE Kamandi! I wish he had his own Comic...not the giant News Strip thing. They could get the Artist(that was on Cable, can't remember his name)who draws like Kirby.

[ctc]

>The world has ended and mankind is an endangered spieces-how much darker do you wanna get!?!?!?!

HAW! Yeah. The 90's one was pretty bad. The 70's one was all sorts of nifty. Plenty of Kirby-esque strangeness and it really felt like there was a giant backstory we were only getting bits of. You could see a lot of it in the Thundarr cartoon too.

Don C.

[palitoy]

I liked the 90s version at the time, not that it held a candle to the original but it really revived my interest in the character.

[Captain]

Read the originals when they came out and love the story and the characters. Some accussed Kirby of ripping off the Apes franchise, but he often said hes never even seen ny of the Apes films. I dont think he swiped from them either. The general concept of a world gone wrong, and animals rising up to become the premiere species has been around forever...his was just better fleshed out than most of the others. I think the brief appearances in Brave and the Bold have proven this series has legs, and would love to see a Kamandi cartoon and toy line!!!

[PNGwynne]

I really enjoy Kamandi--slightly derivative of POTA but wildy inventive Kirby fun.

I have both Archive volumes and re-read them often. I'd love to see a movie or toy line!

[kingdom warrior]

Love all of Kirby's work from the 70's. Kamandi is up there. Absolutely loved his artwork.

[palitoy]

Read the originals when they came out and love the story and the characters. Some accussed Kirby of ripping off the Apes franchise, but he often said hes never even seen ny of the Apes films. I dont think he swiped from them either. The general concept of a world gone wrong, and animals rising up to become the premiere species has been around forever...his was just better fleshed out than most of the others. I think the brief appearances in Brave and the Bold have proven this series has legs, and would love to see a Kamandi cartoon and toy line!!!

IIRC Kirby was asked to make something similiar to Planet of the Apes which is why the comic has that certain flavour, the rest of it however is pure Kirby.

[Bruce Banner]

Always liked Kamandi. Big fan of Kirby, and Kamandi was one of my favourites.

[samurainoir]

This can't be a coincidence can it?






I do appreciate the concept and Kirby style execution, but it certainly surprised me when I learned that Kamandi was the most popular of his 70's DC Creations. A boy in cut-off jeans just seems so less-colourful than The Demon or Mister Miracle Super Escape Artist or Sandman Master of Dreams etc.

What I love about his Brave and Bold appearances are that they seem to just hint at bigger storylines that are left to our imaginations.

[kryptosmaster]

Were it not for the DC Implosion of 1978 I think Kamandi may have made it all the way to the Crisis or at least until the demise of the horror books in the early 80's.
I've always wondered whether there were any suggestions to resurrect Kamandi's title but knowing the Crisis was coming they decided against it?
Rich