Kamandi by Jack Kirby Omnibus Retroview! 

Such a fun series. Jack Kirby never did anything halfway, his creativity back in the 70s was just phenomenal. Beautiful book.

man, you're simply the most informative reviewer in the community imo, i always check this channel whenever im looking to get some books.

Re-read this about a year and a half ago. Good as ever. Fun. Too bad we don't get books like this today

I'm 75 and Kirby is god to me, lol ! Bought Kamandi new and couldn't wait for each issue !!! ( The Fourth World sagas are the best comics of All Time ! )

Kamandi was a little bit ahead of it’s time, I love it!!!

Kamandi meets Superman in DC Comics Presents #64.

What a great book, just loving the old school stuff.

Every so often DC nails it with a wonderfully designed & packaged omni and this is definitely one of those times! I felt the same way about Jack’s art when I was a kid but now I can really appreciate his creativity and energy. He definitely led the way for so many artists inspired by his work!

Out of the three Kirby DC omnis this was always the one that interested me the most.

Great retroview, Omar! I had to get this and the DC Universe: The Bronze Age Omnis, but as a huge Kirby fan, I went the Absolute route for the Fourth World. Still waiting patiently for Volume 2, which I think is still delayed until January.

Jack Kirby Should Had Call It "Kamandi Last Teen on Earth". I Bought It in 1972 When I was 15. I Miss Those Days.

Moon theme! Lol… Really appreciate the background tunes! Great choice too, classic!

Man, Omar you got me distracted from working but, seeing this stuff is cool. Gotta Work now to play later. But great overview.

Have to disagree with you, Kamandi is ABSOLUTELY GREAT! One of Kirby's best creations and I don't think there's anything wrong with the dialogue! Of course, the art is MASTERFUL! I would love to see PIXAR do a CGI movie of this character! To me, his adventures would be perfect for them to do!

PERFECT TIMING! Was just wondering if I should pick this up. Thanks Omar!

Glad you got the lower price Omar. I hope your omnis from Amazon come in good condition. I’m never ordering from them due to consistent damage in transit due to lack of adequate (or basically any) packing material.

Hey Omar Love the review ! I just picked up the tpb that collects #1-20 and there was issue with rescaning issue no. 17. Several of the pages, including half the double page spread left side, are blury and out of focus. I know DC has a habit of using he same scans and was wondering if the same problem in no.17 can be found in the Omnibus ? In the trade its pages 1,2,7,8,13,14,19 and 20 of issue no.17 that are blury 😢 Anyway love your videos, they really help fuel the collecting spirit !

I felt the same way about Kirby when I was young. His stuff looked old fashioned and corny to my 80s kid brain. Also, that thick Sinnot/Royer-style brush inking really looked antiquated to me. I was accustomed to the thin pen line inks that seemed to be popular in the 80s. It took me a couple decades to finally realize that I had been missing out on my all time fav artist/creator.

Really nice overview, again ! I picked this up for my collection of Kirby's Kamandi. Haven't read it though and was stoked to find there are some Joe Kubert covers as well. I have his Tarzan Artist Editions. But, back to Kirby. Friends of mine more into Kirby, Kirby at DC, really like his Kamandi as well, including owning the Artist Editions of this too, but their number one love in all this is his OMAC. All this after Kirby's Fourth World, of course. I believe it's a challenge getting a hard to get a hard cover of it, but a color trade of OMAC was recently released.

Whilst DC would have seen this as riffing on Planet of the Apes (1968), Kirby had written and drawn a story featuring talking animals more than a decade earlier.

A great and fun series for any Kirby fan. I just wish DC would collect the rest of the issues in the series (41 - 59) in a companion hardcover.

damn good comic....liked it when it first came out.

Amazon canceled my Usagi Yojimbo Saga, I throw a fit and got a gift card that I spent on this. I got and read it this year, it is a lot of fun and something I highly recommend. It starts to take a turn in the writing around when DC screwed Kirby, which is a shame since I don't think anyone else could handle this world of his. I do love this and highly recommend it. I also feel you need the right Kirby book to get into Kirby. For me, the Demon and Fantastic Four.

I bought the issues after Kirby left as single issues on EBay.

Kirby is timeless

Thank you for this. I myself started to appreciate Kirby 2 years ago, and started to buy the monster sized books. I will get this too, but there is soo much to buy... hard to prioritize.

👍 Great video 👍

Kamandi is the best! I can’t believe DC hasn’t adapted it into a movie or TV show yet. It would work really well!

This is on my list to pick up. I have the 4th World Absolutes and they are beautiful

100% Kirby Awesomeness!!!

thank goodness i realized there's no "dated" art, only iconic art.

So interesting to see some of these silver and golden age characters that have been totally forgotten!

I remember going to a small local comic show as a kid in the late 70s and finding the first 30 or so issues of Kamandi in one dealer's 25 cent "junk" box, not even bagged, just loose. Even as a pre-teen in an era long before online nerd culture existed I knew how good Kirby was, and I snapped the whole lot of them up immediately. The dealer laughed in my face because I'd paid almost $8 for a bunch of "garbage" because I was a dumb kid. Made a point of cleaning that guy out of all super-cheap early Kirby and Ditko (including a good chunk of the Doctor Strange run) he put out over the next couple of years, and he was derisive every time because I was buying "old junk no one cares about" according to him. Must have given the sneering jackass a good fifty buck at 25 cents a book I wound up having to sell my whole collection in the early 2000s. The "junk" books alone earned me well over a grand at the time. Not bad for a dumb kid, eh?

Kah mon dee? Kamandi got his name because he grew up in Command D with his grandfather. His name should be pronounced Kuhmandee and not a straight up Command D. This was my favorite comic book growing up so it's kind of an thing for me to insist that this is correct. If I am wrong, well I'm just going to stay wrong. All you have to do is read the books. And I think it was in issue 50 or so, 10 issues after Jack had left to go back to Marvel, that there was a retelling of the origin.

Jed Walker is Kamandi's real name

ive been digging the Kamandi cartoons on HBO max

great Kamandi i remember that series i have to go all over comic shops and newstand to found those books! but kirby was the Legends of Marvel and dc yup!

Wow I never knew they did a proper Kamandi Omni. I used to have the original 2 smaller omni which had matte interior pages if I recall. Yup the book/trade design of these new Omnis are fantastic. Even the recent DC Kirby TPB of New Gods, Demon, OMAC, & Forever People have consistently outstanding trade design. I'd love to see a Kamandi Challenge OHC collected with Sook's excellent Sunday Paper Kamandi serial (from that Tabloid DC special project in the 10s) to show these great modern homages to a Kirby Classic. When you say you're planning to get the OMAC book are you saying that there's an OMAC stand alone omni?

I have a old Kamandi

Hey Omar any news on a reprint of this??

I just picked up this Omni. I too did not care for Kirby's art when I was young, but now that I am old, it far outshines a lot of other comic art. I recall a recent story, which I don't think was of Kirby's making, but I haven't read the book yet, that Kamandi was left at Command D jus prior to Dc's fabled Great Disaster. I still don't care much for Gil Kane comic art.

Have you seen the Kamandi short yet?

Are the three DC Jack Kirby omnibuses (fourth world, Kamandi, DC Bronze Age) all of Jack Kirby’s work at DC or is their more that he did at DC???

The reason it is a rip-off of Planet of the Apes is because Kirby wanted to do a Planet of the Apes comic but either DC couldn't get the license or passed on the project. He took the concepts and created Kamandi. Much like Larry Hama used his concepts for a SHIELD vs Hydra book that Marvel rejected and turned it into GI Joe.

Have you read Luthor by Brian Azzarello?

Command-D. KO-(MAN)-D! Your'e killing me with your pronouciation!

I bought it just about one month ago. :)

kirby use to do comics for red circle comics also as know archie comics the fly the shield and others!

Love Kirby’s art so much. I also couldn’t appreciate it when I was young… stupid kids

Kirby 🙌

I liked the Eternals when I was a Kid. (It was a New comic.)

Doubt we’ll see a stealth reprint after this long but there’s always a chance

not the biggest fan of this series but still cool, I bought Jack's Eternals omnibus today after seeing the movie.

This has a beautiful Planet of the Apes vibe

Omar, do you have The Tooth by Cullen bunn, I really want to see that book

Kamandi wasn't a smart ass. Kamandi had heart, was always ready to fight for his life or to save a human. Kamandi wept when his grasshopper Klik Klak died. I think Kamandi wept again when he found out he wasn't alone, when he met the three mutants. Later after Jack Kirby left Kamandi developed a bloodlust, a rage, sort of the way Dean in Supernatural was after being possessed or something like that. And I thought the Superman tie it was weak and boring and non memorable. My favorite issues were "The Eater", the big worm that lived in the ground and the little mole men type monsters that lived down in the ground. Yeah, it's similar in the vein of The Mole Man, but there was no Mole Man, just digging creatures that lived in the ground. Kamandi saved the creatures because they were playing with bombs they found in the ground. Kamandi was always helping someone. I think the issue where the chemical leaks into the water to make the "animals" intelligent again is a masterpiece. How memorable Sacker was, the snake who was a goods trader. And Dr Canus is pronounced like CANINE. He's a DOG. K-nus, not Can nus. That's how I pronounce it anyway. And Kamandi was supposed to be the LAST BOY ON EARTH in that he had INTELLIGENCE that other humans lacked and he was becoming a MAN and he would have to fight everyday to prove himself, to save himself and others. Seeing Kamandi steal a Gorilla's vehicle, or to ride a motorcycle. Kamandi was just a kid who grew up in a bunker, was EDUCATED, was intelligent and then he was thrust into the world by himself when his grandfather was killed. Everything he did was what a boy becoming a MAN would do. When he was impulsive it was because he was IMMATURE. He had almost father figures in the three mutants, especially Ben Boxer. Or call him a big brother. And Dr Canus took Kamandi under his wing, as did one of the Tigers. I know one was a dad and one was a son but Kamandi was friends with Prince Tuftan. People liked Kamandi, the ones who were CIVILIZED anyway. The people who didn't like Kamandi were the ones who thought he was a stupid, dirty animal. It's like how in The Planet of the apes, Dr Zira saw something special in the Charlton Heston character. She could see the light in his eyes, the light of intelligence, but Heston couldn't talk due to the gunshot wound to his neck. In the Apes movie, Roddy Mc Dowell and Zira did the right thing and got Heston who took up with the mega hot NOVA, to safety. Anyway, Kamandi was NOT a smart ass, sometimes he might be, but mostly he was a good kid. He used a gun when he had to but he never went looking for trouble. Mostly Kamandi just stumbled from one dangerous situation to another, like Peter Parker/Spider-Man. Neither character could catch a break for long. I think both characters have a lot of heart, Pete and Kamandi. And you failed to mention the GLOSSY PAGES. I have the two volumes and the pages aren't GLOSSY. Now I want this Omnibus too.

Pronounced and named after survival command post d

Oh, is Walt's Comic Shop still a sponsor ?

The art is phenomenal but he digital recoloring of every comic still makes me sad (especially when the showcase original print on the cover)

Any body else love issue 16 'the hostipal'

I think Kamandi is much better than much of the other 4th World stuff. New Gods is beautifully drawn and there are great concepts but the writing is not very good.Forever People is very poor. Kamandi is a character you can engage with.

There was a neat Batman/Kamandi crossover! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1N7Qvk6iSMA.html

that 2 page spread at 9:50 looks so different here compared to the original omnibuses .. i really like the way the original omnibus looks but the binding sucks

Ka-man-di not Ka-mon-di.

Um..is it just me or does Kamandi looks alot like Kazar.

Kuh - MAN - dee. ty.

i dont like 60s & 70s stuff Kamandi is one of very few comics i like from that era

pronounced... Command D

This isn't ALF.

Not KOMONDI, my friend. K-AH-MANDI as in Command D where we are told his name came from in the first issue. It is so annoying to hear you mispronounce his name repeatedly throughout your review.

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