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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Feb 2018

      1. A few thought Jack Kirby's 1971 satire of Billy Graham: Glorious Godfeypic.twitter.com/S6pHYb30W9

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Feb 2018

      2. Before getting to Kirby, I should say that Billy Graham was a complicated historical figure, whose trajectory my colleague @onesarahjones traces here:https://newrepublic.com/article/147164/billy-grahams-circus-left-behind …

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Feb 2018

      3. Kirby's most remarkable work is the "Fourth World" cycle of stories he did from 1970-1973, a kind of cosmic allegory for the battles between Nixonian hard-hat reactionaries & the youthful counterculture.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Feb 2018

      4. In the course of the the Fourth World cycle a multiracial group of young people fight a cosmic villain, Darkseid, whose earthly minions are plutocracy & authoritarian religion.pic.twitter.com/1ZIfRgIMCE

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Feb 2018

      5. One of Darkseid's chief human servants is Glorious Godfrey, a hell-fire preacher who uses fear to bind together a conformist cult.pic.twitter.com/Plm6cPpyG7

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Feb 2018

      6. Visually, Glorious Godfrey owes something to Burt Lancaster in "Elmer Gantry" but also, in showmanship & pizazz, to Graham. As Kirby biography Mark Evanier explains.pic.twitter.com/5mFBei7akE

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Feb 2018

      7. Key to understanding Kirby's satire on Graham is Graham's relationship with Nixon. Kirby really, really hated Nixon. Darkseid is a Nixonian villain & his henchmen echo Nixon's cronies (Desaad = Kissinger).

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Feb 2018

          8. The strange thing is when you read transcripts of the private conversations between Nixon & Graham, they do sound like super-villain & lackey.pic.twitter.com/zwFLzB7zaP

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Feb 2018

          9. Here is my favorite moment between Glorious Godfrey & Darkseid.pic.twitter.com/AGWqFMwuJ8

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Feb 2018

          10. "I like you, Glorious Godfrey! You're a shallow, precious child — the Revelationist — happy with the sweeping sound of words! But I am the Revelation! The Tiger-Force at the core of all things! When you cry out in your dreams — it is Darkseid that you see!"

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Feb 2018

          11. Kirby's satire was aimed not a religion but religion allied with power. Godrey made himself a servant of "the Tiger-Force at the core of all things" not knowing where it would lead.

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Feb 2018

          12. Kirby's "Fourth World" cycle was a commercial flop (perhaps too strange for 1970s audiences) yet hugely influential: it provides narrative undergirding of both DC & Marvel cinematic universes. Alas, they've denuded the visionary satire.

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        1. Darryl A. Armstrong‏ @armstrongda 22 Feb 2018
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          Ooh... That's fascinating.

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