Cool art (especially those big splash pages) but The stories get very repetitive very quickly. Also, Etrigan doesn't rhyme all the time like he does now.

Since supernatural comics were all the rage in the 1970s, DC mandated that Kirby create this comic rather than work on projects that he was more interested in. The result is a fairly interesting occult comic, but not anywhere near Kirby at his best. It falls quickly into a moster-of-the-week cycle of stories. The monsters are not all that interesting--a Dr. Frankenstein clone, a Phantom of the Opera, and so on. However, the appearance of Klarion the Witchboy is a plus.

The Demon by Jack Kirby is a wonderful throwback to the early years of my love of comics. Like most of the books of the seventies, it felt in many ways as if it was written for a much older audience than the kids that fell enthralled to the Demon Estrigan and his human host, Jason Blood.In the early 1970s, Jack Kirby went to DC Comics for the freedom of writing and illustrating characters that were not part of the Marvel pantheon. He wanted to work on the Fourth World titles (The New Gods, the F...

A really good Jack Kirby from the 70s. I love the characters he created here and the mythology he added to the DC universe

I always liked the look of this character from the Batman and Justice League cartoons but admittedly knew nothing else about him. I'm not a big fan of his more recent portrayals in comics but I have to say, I loved these Jack Kirby stories! I might just have a new favorite DC character.

The Demon was created in the space of time between when Kirby ordered a burger at Howard Johnson's, and when the burger arrived. Despite some fantastic dynamic layouts, some memorable characters, and the chance to use his limited horror palette - it never quite stops feeling that way.The creation story (from the forward) is meant to be endearing and to show how JK thought, and it is - but as you make your way into this collection (particularly when you arrive at the Phantom of the Opera and Fran...

The stories were entertaining though occasionally it seemed that they would wrap up suddenly due to lack of space more than anything else. The art is classic Kirby and produces a cool, creepy vibe like from a 60's Batman colored occult horror movie of the early 70's (the time the comics were originally published). I would recommend this book to those who like cheesy old horror-hero type comics with faux occultism as only a comic-book could present it particularly if you like monsters as there is...

I was familiar with the character of Etrigan the Demon from Alan Moore's "Swamp Thing," so it was fun to read his original Jack Kirby solo series. Kirby created Etrigan at the behest of his editors at DC, who wanted a supernatural-themed "weird adventure" story. Kirby's series is best when he goes all-in on the supernatural, filling double splash pages with gothic castles, monsters, and torch-wielding Central European peasants, and building operatic storylines out of references to Arthurian lege...

Old capsule reviews I posted on a now-defunct Facebook account and pasted into an e-mail to a friend on February 1, 2010: The Demon vol. 1 #1Except for the bit about Mary Kelly, everything about Etrigan that I've read so far in Matt Wagner's_Madame Xanadu_ is recap from this issue. Matt Wagner wrote volume 2 of this series (a four issue limited series) back in the eighties, so that shouldn't be too surprising. He didn't mess with the genius of Jack Kirby. The Demon vol. 1 #2So far, Etrigan doesn...

The Demon is another kinetic, wild, fun, and beautifully ugly 1970s explosion from Jack Kirby. With this 16 issue work, the stellar master of living, moving, furious comic art acknowledges the most sterling of all comic art perfectionists, Hal Foster, who created the look of the Demon in an early (and incredible) Prince Valiant strip, but otherwise, this series is pure Kirby in my favorite era of his work.Whereas I felt like the humongous concepts and stories and worlds in New Gods required far

Jack Kirby's Demon plays an interesting role in the development of the graphic novel. The moving back-and-forth of creators has played a large part in the long battle between Marvel and DC for comic book dominance in America. Jack Kirby's creations dominate media today, so his switch from Marvel to DC in the 1970's was monumental. His Fourth World series was one of the best ever series ever, and in some ways the culmination of his work. However, sales lagged and DC cancelled the Fourth World boo...

I've not really read a lot of Kirby stuff. Writing styles from 50s-70s can be difficult for me to read. This is so out there that I don't know that it matters.King Kirby is obviously in rare form while writing this one. No filters. Just straight from his brain to the paper. And it works. Also, Klarion the Witchboy makes his first and I think second appearance in this collection. And seeing what Kirby did with Teekl (his familiar) in that second story...all stories with them takes on a whole new

I hate to say that this is my first Kirby, but this is my first Kirby. TECHNICALLY it isn't the first Kirby I've ever read, but it is the first I've owned AND appreciated. When I was a kid, comics were my main form of entertainment and literature. As the internet was still in its infancy, Wizard was my main source for comic book information and I read it obsessively. By reading Wizard I would learn about current comic creators, companies and their upcoming projects, and I would also learn about

CHANGE! CHANGE! O' form of man!Release the might from fleshy mire!Boil the blood in heart of fire!Gone! Gone! The form of man!Rise! The Demon ETRIGAN!!By the latter months of 1971, comics artist and writer Jack Kirby was a busy man. He was deep in the midst of both writing and drawing his epic “Fourth World” titles for DC Comics, although with them being bi-monthly titles he did seem to have a bit of extra time on his hands. Carmine Infantino, who was the publisher of DC Comics at that point in

It's a fun comic, but it's not as good as Jack's other early 70s DC work. The Fourth World stuff and OMAC were complete experiments in building a universe, an entire cosmology, while the Demon is basically about Jason Blood and his alter ego fighting random occult threats every month. There's very little sense of a coherent back story underpinning the entire series, which makes the separate adventures feel random, rather than building a sense of wholeness.Still, Kirby's art is as great as ever,

I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would. Usually these comic books published before I was born tend to get a little...boring. not this one. Of course I knew the Demon/Jason Blood because of my interest in the supernatural side of DC Comics. I'm also a big fan of Jack Kirby's art, so this book was a must for me.The writing in this can get a little wordy and stranded like most older comic books, but story wise I thought this was really great. Not only was there an actual story, there...

It's impossible to read a Kirby creation from his 70s DC run and not absolutely love it. Etrigan has been one of my favorite under the radar DC characters ever since I first came across him in Hitman, and his origins here are as fantastical & fleshed out as any Kirby book. The art is vibrant and the storylines are entertaining, though ultimately somewhat lacking in deeper meaning beyond "look at this awesome monster who fights monsters!"The origins of the Demon are pretty simple. Bound to Merlin...

The Demon.One of Kirby's most long-lived comics at DC, and perhaps his most notable outside of the Fourth World. It's an enjoyable look at "What Kirby would do if he was developing a fantasy world (rather than one focused on science-fantasy or science-fiction or super-heroes)." Blood and the Demon and their friends are all fine enough, and the stories are a nice blend of gothic horror, with the Evilstein arc being particularly notable for its body horror, despite the awful name of the villain. H...

So. Good.I'm a fan of Jack Kirby, obviously. And I'm a fan of 70s horror comics. And this combines the best of both, along with a good helping of Silver Age superheroics and something that could be called proto-Hellboy. Most of the time I read old Jack Kirby monster comics for the art of the creatures, and for the lightweight, escapist silliness of the plotlines. This is a different story. While it's still a product of its time, and how, it's just a great bit of comic awesomeness, and in a very

This man loved to draw comics - you can see it on every page. The work is dynamic and unique. Kirby created a whole new language of comic-book art, and it sings in the pages of "The Demon".I only wish his extreme visual talent was matched by his storytelling abilities. I think he does a terrific job in coming up with the initial story idea and characters, but it seems like he could have used more writers to help him keep the ideas coming after the first couple of issues. The fact that he was the...