“The Day of the Gods!”
Kirby Unleashed • 25¢ First Print • Birth of the Celestials Saga
Jack Kirby returns to Marvel and immediately swings for the cosmic fences. Not a superhero book, not quite a sci-fi book — The Eternals #1 is pure Kirby theology: space gods, ancient civilizations, hidden races, and a mythology big enough to swallow the Marvel Universe whole. This is the true first appearance of the Eternals, Deviants, Celestials, and the idea that humans were… modified.
It reads like Chariots of the Gods rewritten by a man who thinks in splash pages.
Cover — “The Day of the Gods”
Art: Kirby pencils, Giacoia inks
Archeologists chip away at history while a Celestial face the size of a building looms above them. Peak “Kirby as prophet” energy.
Main Story — 17 pages
Story & Art: Jack Kirby
Inks: John Verpoorten
Colors: Glynis Oliver
Letters: Gaspar Saladino
Ikaris, the Deviants, the dormant Celestials, and the grand origin of three distinct human offshoots — all dropped into place with that confident, declarative Kirby narration that feels like scripture shouted through a megaphone.
Debuts galore:
• Ikaris (first appearance)
• Crow / Deviants (first appearance)
• The Fourth Host of the Celestials (first appearance)
• Margo & Dr. Damian (first appearances)
• First use of the term “Eternals” as a race
This is the ignition point for everything the MCU mined decades later.
NM (9.4) — Razor sharp. Deep, unfaded colors. Snow-white margins. Gloss like it just hit the spinner rack. One or two microscopic spine ticks keep it from 9.6/9.8 territory. Staples tight. No distribution ink, no retailer stamp, no marvel chipping, no bends or creases. Interior pages white/off-white and crisp. A straight-up investment copy of a key Kirby first issue — with the 25¢ cover price, not the later 30¢ variant.
“The Day of the Gods!”
Kirby Unleashed • 25¢ First Print • Birth of the Celestials Saga
Jack Kirby returns to Marvel and immediately swings for the cosmic fences. Not a superhero book, not quite a sci-fi book — The Eternals #1 is pure Kirby theology: space gods, ancient civilizations, hidden races, and a mythology big enough to swallow the Marvel Universe whole. This is the true first appearance of the Eternals, Deviants, Celestials, and the idea that humans were… modified.
It reads like Chariots of the Gods rewritten by a man who thinks in splash pages.
Cover — “The Day of the Gods”
Art: Kirby pencils, Giacoia inks
Archeologists chip away at history while a Celestial face the size of a building looms above them. Peak “Kirby as prophet” energy.
Main Story — 17 pages
Story & Art: Jack Kirby
Inks: John Verpoorten
Colors: Glynis Oliver
Letters: Gaspar Saladino
Ikaris, the Deviants, the dormant Celestials, and the grand origin of three distinct human offshoots — all dropped into place with that confident, declarative Kirby narration that feels like scripture shouted through a megaphone.
Debuts galore:
• Ikaris (first appearance)
• Crow / Deviants (first appearance)
• The Fourth Host of the Celestials (first appearance)
• Margo & Dr. Damian (first appearances)
• First use of the term “Eternals” as a race
This is the ignition point for everything the MCU mined decades later.
NM (9.4) — Razor sharp. Deep, unfaded colors. Snow-white margins. Gloss like it just hit the spinner rack. One or two microscopic spine ticks keep it from 9.6/9.8 territory. Staples tight. No distribution ink, no retailer stamp, no marvel chipping, no bends or creases. Interior pages white/off-white and crisp. A straight-up investment copy of a key Kirby first issue — with the 25¢ cover price, not the later 30¢ variant.
