Monday, January 9, 2017

Want It Got It TPB: Jack Kirby's Machine Man Omnibus!

RELEASED on - 08/16/16: Machine Man by Kirby & Ditko: The Complete Collection.
COLLECTING: Machine Man (1978) 1-19; Incredible Hulk (1968) 235-237; Marvel Comics Presents 10

 
Clipped from The Marvel Project: Drawing inspiration from one of my favorite features at The Dork Review, I’m putting out the call for a Machine Man collected edition! I was actually surprised to not have a Machine Man TPB or Omnibus as I searched through the Kraalo Archives this week looking for source material for the Machine Man #13 review. With so much of Jack Kirby’s work already collected, including 1970s gems like Devil Dinosaur, a Machine Man Omnibus seems like a no-brainer. X-51 first appeared in Marvel’s adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey #8 (July 1977) so maybe the publication rights to that early work is in question because of the status of that licensing deal. In any case, I hope that Marvel is able to resolve the issues at some point because it would be great to see Kirby’s Machine Man re-mastered in large format with the amazing new coloring they have done for all the Omnibus editions.

 Dork Note: Thanks for the kind words, dude and I couldn't agree more about the Omnibus.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

AMAZING...JACK KIRBY SHOULD SHOULD DO THIS AND I COULDN'T AGREE MORE. MACHINE MAN HAS ENOUGH COMICS OF HIS OWN TO FILL AN OMNIBUS OR EVEN AN ESSENTIAL. ALL I HAVE LEFT TO SAY IS THAT I'M ALL PREPARED...FOR A MACHINE MAN OMNIBUS TO COME OUT INTO THE OPEN!!!

April 14, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Anonymous said...

From the marvel masterworks . Com boards
the main issue with 2001: A Space Odyssey is that the licensing rights are a mess. Because of the way the movie was packaged, you've got the Stanley Kubrick estate, the Arthur C. Clarke estate, and MGM -- or more accurately, seeing that MGM has been in and out of bankruptcy and sold various pieces of itself off over the last 45 years, the residual rightsholder. I believe the film itself is part of the Turner library, but there's the question of whether MGM's portion of the merchandising rights were transferred with the film as well or were moved in a different transaction. In short, it's a rat's nest, and it's unlikely the profit generated from a Machine Man book would offset t

June 22, 2016 at 7:50 PM

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