You take this cover for an Andre Norton novel, better known as Star Man's Son.
Add this cover of an issue Fantastic Universe Science Fiction.
And you get this classic Kirby cover for the debut issue of Kamandi. All you need to complete the image is a cat.
But that was inside the comic instead.
Many might've been onto this for sometime, but I only got a clue when I read a chance reference to the Ace novel part of the cover by Gerry Conway in one of the more recent issues of Alter Ego.
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Interesting…As they say over at Mick Jagger’s Dojo: “It’s Only Rock n Roll – but I like It, like it – yes, I do…”
ReplyDeleteI don't go to that Dojo. I'm a Beatles fan.
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And here I thought Planet of the Apes was the first.
ReplyDeleteKirby was asked to create a PotA knockoff and Kamandi is the result, a wonderful result.
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