Kamandi

Kamandi
Cover for Countdown Special: Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth, by Ryan Sook.
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceKamandi, The Last Boy on Earth #1 (October 1972)
Created byJack Kirby
In-story information
SpeciesHuman
Place of originEarth A.D.
Team affiliationsCheckmate
Notable aliasesKingsley Jacobs
King
AbilitiesSkilled fighter
Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth
Cover for Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth #1 (October 1972), art by Jack Kirby and Mike Royer.
Publication information
Schedule(vol. 1)
Bimonthly
The Kamandi Challenge
Monthly
FormatOngoing series
Limited series
GenreScience-fiction
Publication date
List
  • (vol. 1)
    October 1972 – September 1978
    The Kamandi Challenge
    March 2017 – February 2018
No. of issues(vol. 1): 59
The Kamandi Challenge: 12
Main character(s)Kamandi
Dr. Canus
Pyra
Creative team
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Kamandi (/kəˈmændi/) is a fictional comic book character created by artist Jack Kirby and published by DC Comics. The bulk of Kamandi's appearances occurred in the comic series Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, which ran from 1972 to 1978. He is a young hero living in a post-apocalyptic future. Following the Great Disaster, humans have backslid to savagery in a world ruled by intelligent, highly evolved animals.