I'm not terribly fond of this story (which, as it happened, was the last issue of the series I read, some years after finding the rest), although it does have many good features, especially in the art, and it would have been nice to find out more about Thaddeus. I thought the series didn't really pick up until the Apokolips elements were introduced (including and especially Barda).
Colletta inks the 22 page story and cover. Marv Wolfman writes the text page (used in all the Fourth World first issues), about a visit he and Len Wein had with Kirby some years earlier, where among other things they heard of some ideas that would eventually evolve into Kirby's then-current work.
Published 1971
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Funny, out of all the "New Gods" first issues, this was my favorite! Actually, I think the "Mr. Miracle" series should have had a 3-6 month head start on the rest of the books - all the things Kirby was treating as "mysterious" in those first issues were already plastered all over the pages of "New Gods" and "Forever People"...
I really don't like the Colleta inks on Kirby. Not enough thick blacks.
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