Race for the Moon #3
In "The Long Long Years," Jack Kirby crafts a haunting tale of isolation and unintended consequence, where Wiley Breck—a man once obsessed with punishing criminals by abandoning them in space—finds himself the ultimate prisoner on a drifting asteroid. Kirby’s stark storytelling, brought to life with his signature dynamism and Al Williamson’s precise inks, unfolds as space explorers discover Wiley not as a monster, but as a man broken by his own creation. The cover, a striking collaboration by Kirby and Marvin Stein, captures the eerie stillness of a man adrift among the stars.
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No one had ever been friendly to Wiley Breck......a man who had invented the punishment of being shackled to an asteroid and left to drift in space until his air ran out. When several space explorers came upon Wiley, to take him back to Mars for trial, there he was: a victim of his own ideas.....a man wanted by every space agency in the solar system. But the asteroid Wiley was handcuffed to bored a fantastic surprise.
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