50 Years Ago Today...2001 Arrived!

No, I haven't gone senile...yet!

On this date in 1968, Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: a Space Odyssey, hit movie theatres like an atom bomb!

Eight years after that, a comic adaptation finally appeared...in the now-defunct, tabloid-sized "Treasury" format by none other than Jack (King) Kirby...

(You can read it at this amazing site!)

...followed by an ongoing series by Kirby that, to this day, generates controversy among comics aficionados!

Due to licensing limitations, neither the movie adaptation or the sequel series have been reprinted in the US, but we've re-presented the complete set of these otherwise lost tales on this blog!

Click on the titles below the covers to go to each story!

#1 "Beast Killer"

#2 "Vira, the She-Demon"

#3 "Marak"

#4 "Wheels of Death" ("Marak" Part 2)

#5 "Norton of New York: 2040 AD"

#6 "Inter-Galactica" ("Norton of New York: 2040 AD" Part 2)

#7 "New Seed"

#8 "Capture of X-51" (Mister Machine Part 1)

#9 "Mister Machine" (Mister Machine Part 2)

#10 "Hotline to Hades" (Mister Machine Conclusion)

Blow Your Mind, True Believer!

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Making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: a Space Odyssey

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Reading Room 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY "New Seed" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Beyond-Human Protaganist...

...once known as Gordon Pruett, he had been transformed by a Monolith into a "New Seed" who now wanders time and space the way you and I wander local streets...

The remaining three issues after this introduced X-51 aka "Mister Machine", renamed "Machine Man", and now an integral part of the mainstream Marvel Universe.

You can read them HERE, HERE, and HERE, and unless you have the actual issues of 2001 in your comics collection, this blog is the only place I know of where you can do so!

Though Marvel has reprinted the later ongoing Machine Man series, it can't reprint the three issues of 2001 introducing the character, nor can it reference the Monolith's participation in the character's origin due to licensing issues!

NOTE: This wasn't the first series set in the 2001: a Space Odyssey universe!

In 1971, Polystyle's comic weekly Countdown introduced an ongoing two-page strip set sometime after 2001...

It was much more in the Dan Dare/Buck Rogers action/adventure vein than the movie.

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Friday Fun 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY "New Seed" Part 1

Our final story details what happens to humans transformed by the Monoliths...

...as described and rendered by the one and only Jack (King) Kirby!

Odd that none of the "New Seeds" bother to go back to Earth, eh?

Will this particular one just observe...or will it interfere?
Find Out...TOMORROW!

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Reading Room 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY "Wheels of Death" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Protaganist in 2001...

...Space Station Liberty I, orbiting Mars, is facing destruction by a meteor swarm!

Commander Herb Marik, perhaps a distant descendant of the barbarian of the same name from pre-history, acts to save his crew...

For the first time, we see what happens when a human doesn't transform into a "New Seed"!

And, that he posesses many of the same characteristics and traits of his apparent ancestor, who also encountered a Monolith!

Note: We already ran "Norton of New York 2240 A.D." and its' sequel "Inter-Galactica" HERE and HERE, so next Friday we re-present the only never-reprinted 2001: a Space Odyssey tale that explores what happens when a human goes to the "next level"...

...the New Seed!

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Friday Fun 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY "Wheels of Death!" Part 1

We Have Already Seen...

...somewhen in unrecorded pre-history, barbarian king Marak encounters a Monolith which compells him to find a woman named "Jalessa"!

To be concluded...TOMORROW!

We finally meet the Marak of the future, but whether he's related or not to the barbarian is, as yet, unknown,though he certainly does resemble the warrior king!

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