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Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (2007)
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Volume 1
Start here with Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #133–139 and issues #1–3 of The Forever People, The New Gods, and Mister Miracle. Starting in Jimmy's corner of Metropolis gives you a familiar foothold before Kirby opens up the war between worlds. Read the four strands in the volume's sequence so Darkseid's shadow can lengthen across all of them.
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Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (2007)
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Volume 2
Second comes the stretch covering Jimmy Olsen #141–145 and issues #4–6 of The New Gods, The Forever People, and Mister Miracle. This is where reading across the titles pays off: you keep switching between the Earth stories and the struggle between Apokolips and New Genesis, with enough time in each strand to learn what its heroes are up against.
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Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (2007)
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Volume 3
The third volume contains Jimmy Olsen #146–148, The New Gods #7–10, The Forever People #7–10, and Mister Miracle #7–9. Give The New Gods #7 room to breathe. The flashback gives you the history of the two worlds after you've seen what their rivalry does to the people caught in it. The Forever People's encounter with Deadman is a good reminder of how far the saga ranges.
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Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (2007)
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Volume 4
Finish Kirby's run with The New Gods #11, The Forever People #11, and Mister Miracle #10–18. Then read Kirby's sequel story from the 1984 New Gods reprint series and The Hunger Dogs, in that order. The latter gives the saga an ending in Kirby's own voice and shifts the focus toward the people who have to live under Darkseid.
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Mister Miracle by Steve Englehart and Steve Gerber (2020)
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To follow Scott Free after Kirby's original run, pick up the collection that starts at Mister Miracle #19. This is the direct issue-number continuation. Scott gets pulled back into trouble with Apokolips, and the included team-up issues let you see how he works alongside other DC heroes.
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Cosmic Odyssey (2004)
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Read Cosmic Odyssey when you want to see how the New Gods fit into the wider DC Universe. Jim Starlin's story puts Orion, Lightray, and Forager on the same mission as heroes including Superman and John Stewart. Mike Mignola's art gives the crossover a mood far darker than a reunion of familiar faces might suggest.
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Orion Omnibus by Walter Simonson (2015)
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For a long return to the fight over the Anti-Life Equation, try Walter Simonson's Orion. It gives you a full run to read in sequence, with Orion #1–25 in the omnibus. Choose this route if the Kirby issues left you wanting another extended story centered on Orion and Darkseid.
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Mister Miracle (2017)
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Tom King and Mitch Gerads's twelve-issue Mister Miracle is a more intimate detour. Enter through Scott and Barda's life on Earth and read the full miniseries as one story. It's a strong next choice if the escape artist's relationship with Barda was the part of Kirby's saga you wanted to stay with.
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Barda (2024)
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Ngozi Ukazu tells a story about learning to want a life beyond Apokolips, with Barda at the center. Granny Goodness orders her to break Scott Free, a premise that makes their growing trust feel like a risk both characters have to take. Try it for a younger-reader-friendly return to Kirby's cast.
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The New Gods (2025)
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Ram V and Evan Cagle begin with the death of an old god and a prophecy about a child on Earth. That setup is a bridge back into the cosmic side of the Fourth World after the more personal Mister Miracle and Barda books. Start with The Falling Sky and continue with Edge of Darkness.
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