Devil Dinosaur #6
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDevil Dinosaur #6 is the pivotal middle chapter of Jack Kirby's three-part alien-invasion arc (issues #4–6), and it delivers two notable debut characters: Eev of the Forest Folk and the Prime Computer, an extraterrestrial machine that gains autonomous thought after its creators are destroyed. The Prime Computer's introduction — a technological serpent in a fabricated garden — launches the series' most overtly allegorical storyline, Kirby's prehistoric retelling of the Garden of Eden that plays out across issues #6 and #7. As one of only nine issues Kirby produced before the series was cancelled, each chapter carries outsized weight in defining the short-lived but enduring mythology of Dinosaur World.
In "Eev!", Jack Kirby’s Devil Dinosaur #6 (1978) delivers a pulse-pounding adventure as Devil and his allies stumble upon Eev, a green-furred Forest-Folk member, under attack by giant ants. Kirby’s dynamic art, with inks by Mike Royer and colors by Petra Goldberg, brings the chaos to life as the colony erupts in fury, swarming the alien ship and triggering a fiery explosion that leaves behind a mysterious "Demon Tree" where the craft once stood. The cover, penciled by Kirby and inked by Joe Sinnott, captures the moment of dread and wonder with striking clarity.
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Devil Dinosaur was created entirely by Jack Kirby — writer, penciler, and editor — during his third and final stint at Marvel (1975–1978). Marvel commissioned the series in response to DC's development of a Kamandi animated series, asking Kirby to craft something in a similar vein but with a dinosaur co-star to capitalize on the creature's broad appeal to young readers. The proposed tie-in animated series never materialized, and the comic itself ran for only nine months (April–December 1978), making issue #6 one of the final chapters of the only solo Kirby-created-and-controlled ongoing series of that era. Mike Royer inked the interior story while Joe Sinnott inked the cover, a division of labor consistent with much of the run.
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- First appearance of Eev, a member of the Forest Folk and a key figure in the series' Garden of Eden allegory, confirmed across the Marvel Database and the Marvunapp Appendix.
- First appearance of the Prime Computer, an autonomous alien machine left behind after the Sky Demons' spacecraft is destroyed — it serves as the story's technological stand-in for the serpent in Kirby's Eden retelling.
- Written, penciled, and edited entirely by Jack Kirby, with interior inks by Mike Royer and cover inks by Joe Sinnott; Petra Goldberg (Scotese) colored the issue.
- The issue carries a September 1978 cover date and was released on June 20, 1978, placing it as the sixth of nine total issues in the original series.
- The Sky Demons' spacecraft is destroyed in this issue by a swarm of giant insect-like Swarmers, ending the three-part alien-invasion arc that began in issue #4.
- Moon-Boy escapes the exploding alien craft but is separated from Devil Dinosaur for the remainder of the issue, setting up the emotional reunion that drives issue #7.
- The entire nine-issue Devil Dinosaur series has been collected in the Devil Dinosaur by Jack Kirby Omnibus hardcover, which reprints all original issues.
- The characters listed in this database entry for Aaron Stack (Machine Man), Bruce Banner/Hulk, Daredevil/Matt Murdock, and Paladin do NOT appear in this issue; they are indexed in other catalog records and should not be associated with this specific issue's content.
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Devil and his allies encounter Eev;a member of the Forest-Folk (green furred cavemen) as she is attacked by two giant ants. Stone Hand tries to save her but is overwhelmed until Devil steps in disposing of the ants. Meanwhile the rest of the maddened colony swarm all over the aliens and their ship, biting and tearing into circuitry until the craft and all the aliens blow up in a gigantic cataclysm. While this is happening Moon Boy as well as the captured cavemen and Dinosaurs flee. After the explosion, Stone Hand and company see a strange "Demon Tree" where the alien ship had once been.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).
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