2001: A Space Odyssey #1
Issue contents
Cover
Untitled
(2001: A Space Odyssey)
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Feature
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Genre
- Science fiction; period
- Characters
- Beast-Killer; Mason; the Monolith; Woodrow Decker
Credits
- Art
- Jack Kirby, penciller
- John Verpoorten, inker
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- Jack Kirby, original Editor
- Archie Goodwin, original Consulting Editor
Reprint history
1Featuring
- Feature
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Genre
- Science fiction; period
- Characters
- Beast-Killer [The One Who Hunts Alone] (caveman, hunter); Bill (boy); Mason (astronaut); the Monolith; Woodrow Decker (astronaut)
Credits
- Writing
- Jack Kirby, scripter [credited]
- Art
- Jack Kirby, penciller [credited]
- Mike Royer, inker [credited]
- Text
- Mike Royer, letterer [credited]
- Editing
- Jack Kirby, original Editor
- Archie Goodwin, original Consulting Editor
Reprint history
- First print
-
2001, A Space Odyssey (Marvel, 1976 series) #1 (December 1976) — Beast-Killer!
- Also printed
-
2001: A Space Odyssey (Yaffa/Page, 1978 series) #2 (1979) — Beast-Killer!
Synopsis
The issue starts in the distant past where the monolith instructs a hunter on how to craft a spear and then shifts to the future where two astronauts discover an alien ruin. One of the astronauts is killed by a creature, but the other, Woodrow Decker, is transported into a pastoral countryside by the monolith. Here he rapidly ages until he dies and is converted by the monolith into an embryo-type creature referred to as a 'new seed' to explore the galaxy.
2Featuring
- Feature
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Characters
- aliens; the Monolith; Vera Gentry (astronaut); Vira, the She-Demon (cave woman)
Credits
- Writing
- Jack Kirby, scripter [credited]
- Art
- Jack Kirby, penciller [credited]
- Mike Royer, inker [credited]
- Text
- Mike Royer, letterer [credited]
- Editing
- Jack Kirby, original Editor
- Archie Goodwin, original Consulting Editor
Reprint history
- First print
-
2001, A Space Odyssey (Marvel, 1976 series) #2 (January 1977) — Vira the She-Demon!
- Also printed
-
2001: A Space Odyssey (Yaffa/Page, 1978 series) #2 (1979) — Vira the She Demon
Synopsis
In the past, Vira discovers the Monolith and it inspires her to dominate her tribe. In the future, Vera also discovers the Monolith, and it transforms her into a cosmic seed that goes forth into the universe.
Notes
Set in prehistoric Italy and on Ganymede, satellite of Jupiter.
3Featuring
- Feature
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Genre
- Historical; science fiction
- Characters
- Egel, the "Thing-Maker" (artisan); Marak (warrior leader); the Monolith; Queen Jalessa (in a vision)
Credits
- Writing
- Jack Kirby, scripter [credited]
- Art
- Jack Kirby, penciller [credited]
- Mike Royer, inker [credited]
- Text
- Mike Royer, letterer [credited]
- Editing
- Jack Kirby, original Editor
- Archie Goodwin, original Consulting Editor [credited]
Reprint history
- First print
-
2001, A Space Odyssey (Marvel, 1976 series) #3 (February 1977) — Marak!
- Also printed
-
2001: A Space Odyssey (Yaffa/Page, 1978 series) #2 (1979) — Marak!
Synopsis
Egel is captured by Marak and his band. The Monolith shows Marak of Queen Jalessa, and Egel builds him weapons so he can capture her.
Notes
Set circa 200,000 years in the past.
Indicia
2001: A Space Odyssey is published by Yaffa Publishing Group (Page Publications Pty. Ltd. Division), Yaffa Building, 432-436 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, N.S.W. 2010. Copyright © 1976 by Marvel Comics Group. Based on magerial copyright © 1968 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. Copyright © 1978 by Page Publications Pty. Ltd. All rights reserved. The characters included in this issue and the distinctive likenesses thereof are the properties of the Marvel Comics Group, and this publication is under license from the Marvel Comics Group. Distributed by Gordon & Gotch (A/asia) Ltd., Melbourne-Sydney.