Mister Miracle #2

May 1971 · DC · 0.15 USD

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“X-Pit!”

★ 1st appearance — Granny Goodness

About this Issue

Mister Miracle #2 delivers the single most important villain introduction of Jack Kirby's entire Fourth World saga: Granny Goodness, the sadistic headmistress of Apokolips's orphanage-training facility, makes her first appearance here, and she would go on to become one of DC's most enduring and culturally distinctive antagonists, voiced across multiple animated series and appearing in live-action television. The issue also functions as the true connective tissue of the Fourth World project — it is the first installment in the Mister Miracle series to explicitly link Scott Free's earthbound escapologist adventures to the cosmic mythology of Apokolips, introducing the Boom Tube technology into the title and placing a statue of Darkseid in Granny's stronghold to make the cosmological stakes unmistakable. By anchoring Scott's past directly to Granny's cruel institution and to Darkseid's empire, Kirby transformed what had read in issue #1 as a fairly self-contained superhero premise into a chapter of a grand, interlocking mythology — a structural move that prefigured the shared-universe storytelling DC and Marvel would fully embrace decades later.

writer, artist Jack Kirby · inker Vince Colletta · letterer John Costanza · cover Jack Kirby, Vince Colletta

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History

Written, penciled, and edited entirely by Jack Kirby — who had defected from Marvel to DC in 1970 specifically to execute his sprawling Fourth World project with full creative control — the issue was inked by Vince Colletta, who handled the early issues of all three original Fourth World titles. Colletta had followed Kirby to DC after years of inking his Thor run at Marvel, and while his work on these issues has divided fans and historians ever since, he remained the series' inker through issue #4 before Kirby — persuaded by assistant Mark Evanier and inker Wally Wood, who showed him how details were being eliminated in the inking — successfully petitioned DC publisher Carmine Infantino to replace Colletta with Mike Royer starting with issue #5. The issue was published on a bi-monthly schedule by National Periodical Publications under the DC imprint, cover-dated June 1971, as part of Kirby's ambitious attempt to build a self-contained mythological universe at DC from scratch.

Trivia · 8 facts

First appearance of Granny Goodness (created by Jack Kirby), the cruel New God from Apokolips who runs Darkseid's training orphanage — one of DC's most durable and widely adapted villains.
Second appearance of Mister Miracle (Scott Free) and Oberon, who both debuted in Mister Miracle #1 (April 1971).
Story titled 'X-Pit!'; Granny Goodness sends her soldier-agents and a powerful being called Overlord to destroy Scott Free and recapture him for Apokolips — the Overlord is introduced and dies within this single issue.
First mention of the Boom Tube within the Mister Miracle series, explicitly connecting Scott's story to the broader Fourth World mythology; a bust/statue of Darkseid appears in Granny's stronghold, making the Apokolips connection unmistakable.
This issue also introduces the Aero-Discs as Scott's primary means of flight going forward, replacing the 'air jets' referenced in issue #1.
Kirby's visual inspiration for Granny Goodness's appearance has been widely attributed to comedian Phyllis Diller, though Kirby biographer and former assistant Mark Evanier disputes the connection.
Inked by Vince Colletta — one of the final few issues in the Kirby Fourth World run with Colletta before Mike Royer took over from issue #5; the issue's original artwork is reproduced in the Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle Artist's Edition.
Reprinted in: Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle (DC, 1998); Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 1 (DC, 2007 and 2011 editions); Mister Miracle by Jack Kirby (DC, 2017); and The Fourth World Omnibus by Jack Kirby (DC, 2017/2018).