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Issue: The New Gods #1
Publication Date: February 1971
 
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [character]View Brand Images
On Sale Date: 12/22/1970
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Orion Fights for Earth!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Orion
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FlagNew Gods #1 published June 1984
as New Gods #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
FlagJack Kirby's New Gods #[nn] published February 1998
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]new colored background on cover
FlagJack Kirby's New Gods #[nn] published February 1998
as The New Gods #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]gray tone only
FlagMillennium Edition: New Gods 1 #[nn] published June 2000
as Jack Kirby Unleashes the Fourth World Saga [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagJack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus #1 published August 2007
as Orion Fights for Earth! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Orion figure taken from presentation piece, as seen at Kirby Museum:
http://kirbymuseum.org/gallery/v/Gods/Orion.jpg.html. Information from Chrissie Harper and Henry Kujawa.

Inks credit is in dispute.

Logo design credit from Todd Klein, who notes that Kirby may have provided a layout of the logo.
Orion Fights for Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Orion (introduction); Lightray (introduction); Metron (introduction); Highfather [Izaya the Inheritor] (introduction); Para-Demons (introduction); Darkseid; Kalibak (introduction); Victor Lanza (introduction); Claudia Shane (introduction); Dave Lincoln (introduction); Harvey Lockman (introduction); The "Source" (introduction); New Genesis (introduction); Apokolips (first appearance)
Ages ago good and evil gods alike perish in the destruction of the home of the old gods. Now Orion, wielder of the Astro Force, is summoned to New Genesis by High-Father. Joined by Metron, they learn the task set for Orion by the Source. Orion is sent to Apokolips, New Genesis' opposite, where he learns that Darkseid, its ruler, is on Earth preparing to conquer it. Orion frees Lanza, Shane, Lincoln, and Lockman and flees to Earth. Orion's task is to stop Darkseid, who plans to mind-scan every human on Earth until he finds the one whose mind holds the secret of the coveted Anti-Life Equation.
Reprinting
FlagNew Gods #1 published June 1984
as Orion Fights for Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagJack Kirby's New Gods #[nn] published February 1998
as Orion Fights for Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]gray tone only
FlagMillennium Edition: New Gods 1 #[nn] published June 2000
as Orion Fights for Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagJack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus #1 published August 2007
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]a detail from p. 3 of "Orion Fights for Earth!"
FlagJack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus #1 published August 2007
as Orion Fights for Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Fourth appearance of Darkseid in cameo; three weeks after FOREVER PEOPLE #1.
[untitled]

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typeset
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Miscellaneous
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A Visit with Jack Kirby

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typeset
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