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**Hedji** · May 10, '15, 10:21 AM

Wonder how far he got with it. Come on people, somebody reprint this gold!

**Starroid Raiders Dagon** · May 10, '15, 3:15 PM

Wow, that is beautiful Kirby work!
SPOILER....

Half of the crew ends up dead, so how would you expect a weekly newspaper series to be successful? I think the movie ends with 3 people left alive?

**Earth 2 Chris** · May 12, '15, 8:55 AM

^I believe this was part of a Disney strip that had rotating features, an anthology strip, more or less. So it would adapt the film, then go away.

Chris

**Starroid Raiders Dagon** · May 12, '15, 9:07 AM

Ah-ha! That makes sense, Earth 2 Chris. Thanks for the info!

**Brazoo** · May 12, '15, 9:26 AM

You can see a bunch of nice scans of the full colour Sunday pages here (though some pages are in French):

Scenes from Jack Kirby’s Black Hole Adaptation!

https://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/scenes-from-jack-kirbys-black-hole-adaptation/

When Jack Kirby worked on a comic book adaptation of Disney’s Black Hole, he probably never dreamed Disney would one day buy his old employer, Marvel Comics. But such strange reality warps ar…

**Hedji** · May 12, '15, 10:20 AM

Thanks for posting that. Lots of right click-save for me.

Why, oh why, does Disney hate this property? Disney Hollywood Studios so desperately needs a Black Hole ride (where they sell this comic in the gift shop).

Eisner, why don't you step down... I'll run your corporation.

**Earth 2 Chris** · May 12, '15, 12:17 PM

Eisner, why don't you step down... I'll run your corporation.

I'm pretty sure Eisner has been out for a while. Bob Iger is the CEO of Disney now.

Chris

**Brazoo** · May 12, '15, 1:59 PM

Disney did announce that a remake of "The Black Hole", but it's been listed as "in development" ever since "Tron Legacy" came out.

In my opinion Marvel isn't fantastic at publishing collections from their archives, but we're also in the golden age of reprint collections now, particularly for Kirby's work, so I'd be surprised if this didn't get collected at some point. Especially if they ever get around to actually filming a new movie.

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FYI - Here's an article I found on the remake (note this is from 2013):

Black Hole remake will be just as “dark, weird and violent”

http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/joseph-kosinski-the-black-hole-is-pretty-spectacular/

TRON: Legacy's Joseph Kosinski will keep the

**Brazoo** · May 12, '15, 2:00 PM

Here's a really cool article I just came across - it's The Kirby Collector speaking with inker Mike Royer, and they're asking him specifically about inking Kirby's Black Hole comic strip.

Collected Jack Kirby Collector Volume 1

https://books.google.ca/books?id=KI-et-e206EC&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&dq=who+inked+kirby%27s+black+hole?&source=bl&ots=9vbFa1KA8t&sig=imVABboysj1EhgcvbYMO29aJbrE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lk9SVf3LE4GjyASW0ICwCg&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=who%20inked%20kirby's%20black%20hole%3F&f=false

Back for its fourth printing, this colossal 240-page trade paperback reprints issues #1-9 of The Jack Kirby Collector, the highly acclaimed magazine for Kirby fans! Included are the low-distribution early issues, the Fourth World theme issue (#6), and the out-of-print Fantastic Four theme issue (#9)! Also included is a new special section with over 30 pieces of Kirby art never before published, including Jack's uninked pencils from The Prisoner, New Gods, Fantastic Four, Captain America, Thor, Hunger Dogs, Jimmy Olsen, SHIELD, and more! Learn behind-the-scenes secrets through interviews with Kirby, Joe Simon, Mike Royer, Mark Evanier, Steve Sherman, Joe Sinnott, and other Kirby collaborators. This volume features a new introduction by Mark Evanier, and page after page of rare Kirby art, much in its original pencil form. Celebrate the life and career of comics' most prodigious imagination: Jack Kirby!

**Brazoo** · May 12, '15, 2:03 PM

The inking looked heavily cleaned up to me, so much so that I wasn't sure if Royer inked it. He usually seems to ink Kirby pretty faithfully - so it's interesting to hear him speak about this exact thing in the article.

**samurainoir** · May 12, '15, 2:42 PM

**samurainoir** · May 12, '15, 2:44 PM

I didn't know about this series... was it more a Lost in Space type thing on the other side of the Black Hole?

**Hedji** · May 12, '15, 3:45 PM

Originally posted by Earth 2 Chris

I'm pretty sure Eisner has been out for a while. Bob Iger is the CEO of Disney now.

Chris

You stood what I undermeant.

**Hedji** · May 12, '15, 3:46 PM

I didn't think issue 4 ever got released.

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