Kirby Reading Room SECRET CITY SAGA "In Battle Joined!" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Ninth Men...

...after being revived from suspended animation for 15,000 years, the good Ninth Men (Captain Glory, NightGlider, and Bombast) are battling the evil Ninth Men (all the other revived Garzans) to protect the Tenth Men (aka present-day humans) in Chicago (which was built above the underground "Secret City"
Complicating matters is the fact that no Tenth Men (aka us) speak the language of the Ninth Men, so the Chicago constabulary doesn't realize the good Ninth Men are here to protect humanity...

Don't forget in 1993, Bill Clinton was the PotUS (President of the United States), so...

To Be Continued...

Next Tuesday!

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Kirby Reading Room SECRET CITY SAGA "In Battle Joined!" Part 1

We Have Already Seen This Scene...

Bombast #1

(the man on the right dressed in red and purple)

NightGlider #1

(the woman on the left garbed in black)

Captain Glory #1

(the guy in the center who redefines "four-color"!)

... when these three people meet...each from their own vantage point!

Now that we've gone totally-Rashamon, lets see how that same concluding shot from three different characters' premiere appearances tie together (after this convenient synopsis from the inside cover of Topps' Secret City Saga #1 [1993])...

All caught up?

Let's dive in...

To Be Continued...

THURSDAY!

Created by Jack Kirby, developed and scripted by Roy Thomas, and illustrated by Steve Ditko, this never-reprinted tale from the first issue of a 4-book mini-series features a variety of concepts and designs Kirby had come up with over his career.
It was meant to be a tribute to his Silver/Bronze Age work...the period of his greatest artistic successes!
However, in the 1990s, the comics audience wanted "grim 'n gritty" and the project didn't sell well, despite the plethora of Golden/Silver/Bronze/Atomic Age comics creators who jumped at the chance to participate!

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Kirby Reading Room BOMBAST "Bombast Lives!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Revived from suspended animation after 15,000 years genetically-engineered warrior Bombast encounters problems in then-current (1993) Chicago!

Besides not understanding any current language, the Garzan soldier's actions are misunderstood and the police, led by the Savage Dragon, attempt to apprehend him!

He narrowly manages to evade the authorities and...

To Be Continued on Friday at our sister RetroBlog...

HEROINES

as NightGlider makes her introduction!

BTW: there's an in-joke on the cover almost nobody born after 1975 will get!
(But almost all the readers of Topps' never-reprinted Bombast #1 in 1993 did understand and appreciate!)
All the listed creatives worked on Marvel's Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos!
"Wah-Hooo!" was the squad's battle cry!)
Additional BTW: all the creatives were active during the Silver Age and Bronze Age!
But both Dick Ayers and John Severin began working in comics at the end of the Golden Age!
And Jack (King) Kirby himself was there at the dawn of the Golden Age up to the "present" (1993)!
So that's three generations of creators who happily leaped to participate in this project on the strength of Kirby's name alone!

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Kirby Reading Room BOMBAST "Bombast Lives!" Part 1

Moving from 15,000 years ago (as we saw yesterday) to the "present day" of 1993...

...Chicagoans (including Savage Dragon) are about to meet the first of the Ninth Men to be revived from suspended animation!

To Be Continued...

Thursday!

And before you ask, yes, Erik Larsen granted permission to utilize his Chicago-based Image Comics character, Savage Dragon, in this tale to help foster the "Silver/Bronze Age" feel with an almost-traditional "heroes meet up but fight due to a misunderstanding" event.
Considering how much Jack Kirby has influenced Larsen's storytelling/illustrating style, I suspect Erik might have wanted to, at least, pencil the tale, but was unable to do so!
As it is, plotter Roy Thomas, writer Gary Freidrich, penciler Dick Ayers, and inker John Severin are all in top form as they follow through with the concept in this never-reprinted story from Topps' Bombast #1 (1993), producing a kool example of how comics used to be before the "Dark Age of Comics" begun by Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns in the mid-1980s!

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