Didn Jack originally plan to turn the Fourth World comics over to others?
Yes. When Jack went to DC, one of the things that most interested him was the prospect of doing new forms of comics — graphic novels, upscale magazines, etc. He had little interest in and did not see much of a future for the conventional 32-page comic. Ergo, he hoped to launch the Fourth World books and pass them on to others who would do them under his editorial supervision, while he worked on new forms. Alas for Jack, DC decided against most of his proposals in that area; they never got farther than In The Days of the Mob and Spirit World, which were scaled-back versions of more elaborate Kirby ideas…and even those were abandoned before they had any real sales data. So Jack wound up sticking with the Fourth World comics and deciding to build them into a personal magnum opus. Had Jack’s original plan come to pass, the Fourth World books would probably have been written by Steve Sherman and myself, working from his plots. As for the art, he had in mind to lasso Wally Wood to draw Ori
