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Joe Smith Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 04 May 2024 at 3:03pm | IP Logged | 1
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dudes. Shouldn’t there be an OMAC sticky? And an FF sticky? And an X- Men sticky? And She-Hulk sticky?
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Rebecca Jansen Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 February 2018 Location: Canada Posts: 4635
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Posted: 04 May 2024 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | 2
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I had the Kirby Omac #1, wasn't Molly the girlfriend who was turned into a build-it-yourself person? That was one 'out there' comic!
Much later Richard Calder wrote science fiction stories and novels about a a future where women were turning into dolls as if via a virus. Also very 'out there' stuff!
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John Byrne
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Posted: 04 May 2024 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | 3
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had the Kirby Omac #1, wasn't Molly the girlfriend who was turned into a build-it-yourself person? That was one 'out there' comic!••• She didn’t turn into a robot, she’d been one all along.
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Brian Miller Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 28 July 2004 Location: United States Posts: 31170
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Posted: 04 May 2024 at 6:20pm | IP Logged | 4
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My first experience with OMAC was the JB mini. An instant favorite with me and remains so to this day. About 10 years ago, I found the complete run of the original Kirby series for dirt cheap and got those. A great concept but didn’t really enjoy it at all.
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Brennan Voboril Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 04 May 2024 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | 5
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Out of all the great Kirby creations (and he had what seems like thousands), OMAC holds a special place for me. Something about it. Kirby had a way of predicting the future.
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William Costello Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 30 August 2012 Location: United States Posts: 752
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Posted: 05 May 2024 at 1:36am | IP Logged | 6
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I never read Jack Kirby's version on OMAC in the 1970s, so when I had the comic shop I used at that time hold the John Byrne mini-series for me, it was my first encounter with OMAC.
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Joe Smith Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 05 May 2024 at 2:12am | IP Logged | 7
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My Dad bought OMAC 1 off the newsstand with me in tow. Lovetere’s Lakeside Diner. They had penny candy, too. I was 5. I read that thing until the cover fell off.
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James Woodcock Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 21 September 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7785
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Posted: 05 May 2024 at 5:59am | IP Logged | 8
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I have no idea how we got them, or from where, but when I was young, we had a load of comics that had no covers. American comics, not the UK reprints. This would be when I was about 5. I only remember a few - Cap as Nomad, Cap’s back & an OMAC comic. All very weird as I don’t remember the issues ever having covers.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 19 May 2024 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | 9
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Kirby’s “predictions” were heavily influenced by the “World of Tomorrow” that was the theme of the 1939/40 New York Worlds Fair. Most of those predictions were pretty wide of the mark—at least for 1969, the target year. (That Fair had a huge influence on comics in the years that followed, as did CITIZEN KANE. They are almost bookends to those most formative years.)
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