Who Is Kamandi? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Kamandi is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Cameron Blank, with over 399 comic issue appearances. In the future, the Great Disaster destroys society as we know it, changing the status quo and leaving mutated animals as the dominant species and mankind as mindless animals. It is into this world that Kamandi emerges from a bunker and begins his struggle to survive.

Who is Kamandi?

Current Events As a character that exists out of the general mainstream of DC Comics, Kamandi has not been seen much since his original series. Recently he has appeared in titles for DC chronicling the mutliverse. Creation DC had sought the rights to the recently released Planet of the Apes movie but were unable to obtain them. Seeking to cash in on the success of the movie, they approached Jack Kirby who had been working for the company on his Fourth World series. Piecing together disparate ideas he had been working on over the years, Kirby came up with Kamandi, planning to hand it over to other creators to work on. Yet, with the cancellation of Kirby's Forever People series, he decided to take the title on himself, writing and drawing the first 37 issues, beginning in 1972. After ending his writing duties, Kirby continued drawing the series for the next three issues before handling the series over entirely to creators such as Gerry Conway , Denny O'Neil , Keith Giffen and Pablo Marcos . Origin As with most of DC's characters, Kamandi's origins have gone through many and various retcons and reboots over time.

Key facts

Kamandi is of human origin and first appeared in "The Last Boy on Earth!". The character is published by DC Comics. With 399 recorded issue appearances, Kamandi ranks among the most featured characters in comics.