''Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters'' is a six-issue

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. It was based on some of

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's unpublished ideas. The series follows the story of Jack Berkley, a former interstellar bounty hunter who must reassemble his former team for one last mission, saving his son.

Publication history

The series was based on unused material

had prepared for the series '' Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers'' #7. The galactic Bounty Hunters were based on early character designs for the Wonder Warriors and Kirby's daughter Lisa found them in his effects after he died and was persuaded by Michael Thibodeaux to work the ideas into a limited series, although initial ideas were for a film or animated television series. Lisa Kirby, Mike Thibodeaux, & Tom Brevoort on Galactic Bounty Hunters
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, September 29, 2006 Issue #3 also featured another Kirby creation, Captain Victory.

Collected editions

The series has been collected into a single

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: * ''Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters'' (256 pages, hardcover, October 2007, , softcover, July 2008, )

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References

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