DC Comics Spoilers: As DC Rebirth’s Mister Miracle #1 By Tom King & Mitch Gerards Hits Stands, What Could Have Been? Mike Mignola On Jack Kirby’s Fourth World & The New Gods! 36 Pics!

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DC Comics Spoilers for Mike Mignola On Jack Kirby’s Fourth World and The New Gods!

With DC Comics Rebirth / Vertigo’s mature readers Mister Miracle #1 set to hit stands, we share with you What Could Have Been with Mike Mignola on Jack Kirby’s Fourth and the New Gods!

Mike Mignola is best known for his DC Comics work on Cosmic Odyssey, involving the New Gods, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight and his own, more recent creations, Hellboy and the BPRD at Dark Horse.

Well, even before all that, it appears Mike Mignola had worked on his take on Jack Kirby’s Fourth and the New Gods.

His inked and pencilled pieces for that surfacted last Fall via Shane White’s tumblr.

Check out Mignola’s Fourth World / New Gods concept art below.

(1) Mister Miracle / Scott Free

(2) Mister Miracle / Scott Free

(3) Darkseid of Apokolips

(4) Darkseid

(5) The Hunger Dogs with riders

(6) Apokolips worker

(7) Big Barda, former Female Fury, and present wife to Mister Miracle / Scott Free

(8) Big Barda

(9) Granny Goodness, Headmistress of Apokolips’ Female Furies

(10) Desaad, Darkseid’s prime minion, and Granny Goodness

(11) Lashina and Mad Harriet of the Female Furies

(12) Stompa and Bernadeth of the Female Furies

(13) Mad Harriet and Stompa

(14) Unnamed Female Fury

(15) Unnamed Female Fury

(16) Granny Goodness

(17) Kalibak, Darkseid’s biological son

(18) Metron of New Genesis

(19) New weapon – the Black Ball

(20) Orion, biological son of Darkseid, but champion of New Genesis

(21) Orion

(22) Parademon of Apokolips

(23) Young Mister Miracle / Scott Free on Apokolips

(24) Young Highfather of New Genesis

(25) Young Darkseid of Apokolips

(26) Young Adult Mister Miracle / Scott Free on Apokolips

(27) Young Adult Mister Miracle / Scott Free

(28) Young Adult Mister Miracle / Scott Free

(29) Happy people of Apokolips

(30) Parademon

(31) Highfather

(32) Highfather

(33) Highfather

(34) Lightray of New Genesis

(35) People of New Genesis

(36) People of New Genesis

Still confused about Jack Kirby’s Fourth World and New Gods? Check out these Who’s Who pages.

First with the New Gods.

Second with the Female Furies.

With that, so, what do you think of What Could Have Been?

John is a long-time pop culture fan, comics historian, and blogger. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief at Comics Nexus. Prior to being EIC he has produced several column series including DEMYTHIFY, NEAR MINT MEMORIES and the ONE FAN'S TRIALS at the Nexus plus a stint at Bleeding Cool producing the COMICS REALISM column. As BabosScribe, John is active on his twitter account, his facebook page, his instagram feed and welcomes any and all feedback. Bring it on!