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Published Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:19:16 -0500

We're living in the golden age of vintage reprint collections, with Marvel and DC both putting quite a bit of work into remastering and republishing their vintage libraries in recent times, and other publishers like IDW, Fantagraphics, Dark Horse, and Titan filling in the gaps with material from other vintage-era publishers. We've even seen more than a few great but relatively obscure titles I never thought we'd see in print again (Marvel's Atlas Era material is exhibit A here), and here's news of yet another example of that — Jack Kirby's Spirit World from DC.

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We know the story. Jack Kirby, enraged by the lack of respect and/or money he was getting from Marvel Comics, moved to DC. This was a big deal, the equivalent of Marvel signing Geoff Johns now, or DC signing Brian Bendis. And so he began work on what would become Jack Kirby's Fourth World.

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