review by KC Carlson

Part of DC Comics’ ongoing efforts to reprint Jack Kirby’s best works for the company, Jack Kirby’s The Losers collects The King’s run from DC’s classic war comics title Our Fighting Forces #151-162. Kirby initially balked at the project, which was originally published in 1974-75, following the cancellation of most of his Fourth World titles, but he ended up producing an extremely memorable set of stories, largely based on his own experiences in World War II.

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by KC Carlson

I’ve always been drawn to comics that ask – and answer – a question.

In the 1960s, I almost exclusively read comics edited by Julius Schwartz (Justice League of America, The Flash, Green Lantern) and Mort Wiesinger (the Superman Family comics), as they both deliberately designed their covers to ask questions – usually literally. Why do these initials (flaming L.L.s!) mean death for the Man of Steel? Why are bystanders walking over the seemingly dead body of the Flash on a busy city street? WHY?

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