Another Kirby double-page spread. This one from an unpublished 1978 adaptation of the British TV series THE PRISONER. Kirby did a full issue, complete script, pencils and partially inked, that I have xeroxes of from years ago. There were two abortive attempts, one issue by Kirby, and a previous issue by Englehart and Gil Kane.

Not until 1988 was there a published THE PRISONER series, by Dean Motter.


A later PRISONER series at least utilized this Kirby splash page as a cover. It would be nice to see the full work published.

I keep it boxed with an "unpublished wing" of my collection, and store these Kirby and Gil Kane PRISONER xeroxes with:
* CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE (the 30 abruptly cancelled DC titles from Oct 1978, collected in two Xerox volumes, about 200 pages each),
* the unpublished Kirby DINGBATS 2 and 3 (issue 1 is FIRST ISSUE SPECIAL 6),
* and the unpublished Rick Veitch "Swamp Thing meets Jesus" story (if I recall, what would have been issue 88, in 1989. Veitch quit the series when DC without warning said they would not publish it).