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* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: To Kirby's earlier ''Tales of Asgard'' series. ''New Gods'' was originally supposed to be a direct sequel until Kirby jumped ship to DC. In one chapter, a wanderer on New Genesis finds the remains of the final battle from ''Tales'' including some broken weapons and armor.
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* WritingForTheTrade: This was Creator/JackKirby's plan for his various ''New Gods'' titles in the 1970s, but that was at least a decade ahead of its time when it became a standard publishing practice and the DC editorship would not cooperate.
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* WritingForTheTrade: This was Creator/JackKirby's plan for his various ''New Gods'' titles in the 1970s, but that was at least a decade ahead of its time when it became a standard publishing practice and the DC editorship would not cooperate.cooperate.
** The comics industries relationship with trade paperbacks is actually OlderThanYouThink, as DC had already worked with a couple of publishers to release collections of old Superman comics by the time Kirby started working for DC. What Jack ''was'' ahead of the curve on was doing this for new comics as an additional way of telling the story, whereas the books DC were releasing were closer to a characters "Greatest hits" collection. It wouldn't be until Neil Gaiman's ComicBook/TheSandman1989 almost two decades later showed how viable this was from both a financial and critical perspective that Jack would be VindicatedByHistory.
** The comics industries relationship with trade paperbacks is actually OlderThanYouThink, as DC had already worked with a couple of publishers to release collections of old Superman comics by the time Kirby started working for DC. What Jack ''was'' ahead of the curve on was doing this for new comics as an additional way of telling the story, whereas the books DC were releasing were closer to a characters "Greatest hits" collection. It wouldn't be until Neil Gaiman's ComicBook/TheSandman1989 almost two decades later showed how viable this was from both a financial and critical perspective that Jack would be VindicatedByHistory.
