Mister Miracle #6
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeMister Miracle #6 is the most-cited single issue of Jack Kirby's entire DC Comics run, appearing in virtually every comprehensive history of American comics and in biographies of both Kirby and Stan Lee. Its lead story debuts two distinct but interconnected creations that would define the issue's legacy: the Female Furies — Darkseid's elite all-female warriors from Apokolips — and Funky Flashman, a bombastic promoter widely understood as Kirby's pointed caricature of his former Marvel collaborator Stan Lee, with Flashman's sidekick Houseroy serving as a parallel jab at editor Roy Thomas. The Funky Flashman story functions as thinly veiled industrial commentary: Flashman's scheme to exploit Scott Free's talents and then flee when accountability arrives encodes Kirby's grievances about credit and compensation at Marvel so directly that historians have called it a 'considered vivisection' of his old creative partner. Meanwhile, the Female Furies — Bernadeth, Lashina, Mad Harriet, and Stompa — debuted here as a cohesive antagonist unit whose concept of Apokolips-trained warrior women would shape DC's Fourth World mythology for decades and seed later runs from the Justice League era through Tom King's 2017 series.
In "Funky Flashman!", Jo tries to seal a licensing deal with Scott, but the Female Furies have other plans—targeting Barda in a high-stakes attempt to bring her back to Apokolips.
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The issue was published November 11, 1971, with a cover date of January–February 1972, written, pencilled, and edited entirely by Jack Kirby — the autonomous triple role DC had granted him when he defected from Marvel in 1970 after feeling creatively and financially undervalued there. Mike Royer, who had become Kirby's primary inker across the Fourth World titles, inked both the lead story and the 'Young Scott Free' backup. According to Kirby's then-assistant Mark Evanier, the original seed for Funky Flashman came not directly from Stan Lee but from a dishonest operator connected to the Marvelmania mail-order venture who had stiffed artists and customers alike — though the finished character so closely mirrored Lee's persona, look, and catchphrases that the Stan Lee reading became universal and has never seriously been challenged. The issue also carried a Golden Age reprint of a Joe Simon and Jack Kirby 'Boy Commandos' story originally from Boy Commandos #1, a regular back-matter feature of the title's early oversized format before DC's line contracted to 20-cent books with issue #9.
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- Cover date: January–February 1972; on-sale date: November 11, 1971 (DC Comics, Mister Miracle vol. 1 #6).
- First appearance of the Female Furies as a team: Bernadeth, Lashina, Mad Harriet, and Stompa — all created by Jack Kirby — are introduced as Darkseid's elite Apokoliptian warrior unit trained by Granny Goodness.
- First appearance of Bernadeth (sister of Darkseid's torturer DeSaad), who wields a 'fahren-knife' that burns victims from the inside; she becomes a recurring co-leader of the Furies.
- First appearance of Funky Flashman and his assistant Houseroy, widely interpreted as satirical caricatures of Stan Lee and Marvel editor Roy Thomas respectively, making the issue a primary document in the history of creator-rights discourse in comics.
- Story title: '"Wait for Godot" with Funky Flashman!' — written, pencilled, and edited by Jack Kirby, inked by Mike Royer.
- A two-page 'Young Scott Free' backup story (also by Kirby and Royer) depicts Metron preventing young Scott from ingesting a brain-drain substance at Granny Goodness's orphanage, adding formative backstory to the series' mythology.
- The issue includes a Golden Age reprint of a Joe Simon and Jack Kirby 'Boy Commandos' story from Boy Commandos #1, one of the last such reprints to appear in the title before DC's format change reduced page counts.
- Both the lead Mister Miracle story and the 'Young Scott Free' backup were later reprinted in DC's Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Volume 2 (August 2007), which collects Mister Miracle #4–6 alongside the contemporaneous Fourth World titles.
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↩ Reprints Boy Commandos #1 (1942)
Reprinted in Aventures Fiction #52 (1976), Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle #[nn] (1998), Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus #2 (2007), Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus #2 (2012), DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection #117 (2017), Mister Miracle by Jack Kirby #[nn] (2017), The Fourth World Omnibus by Jack Kirby #[nn] (2018), Supermán #1443
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