I just happened to be looking up 1942's
Adventure Comics #78 on
The Grand Comics Database. That issue featured not just one but TWO stories by
Joe Simon and
Jack Kirby!
The
GCD entry indicates that the
Sandman story entitled "The Miracle Maker" was reprinted in 2009's
Sandman hardcover edition, and that the
Manhunter story entitled "The Lady and the Tiger" was reprinted in 1972's
The New Gods #9 (and I remember what a wonderful experience it was reading so many
S & K stories for the first time as back-ups in the 52-page
Fourth World comics!).
But wait just one pretty little minute. The above-mentioned
Manhunter story hasn't been reprinted since 1972? (Now picture me slapping my forehead like the guy in the "I could've had a V-8" television commercials.) I proudly own all the
Kirby reprint hardcovers and it never occurred to me before that there has not been a
Manhunter volume! Why hasn't there been one?
Well, maybe it's because there were only eight of those
S & K Manhunter stories, and that would make for a fairly thin book. (I know
I would definitely purchase it, though.)
DC reprinted seven of those eight stories in the 1970s and you can read the one that got away, the eighth and last in the series, right over
here.
Maybe
DC is planning to reprint the
Manhunter stories in an as-yet-unnanounced
Jack Kirby Omnibus Volume 3? Or (gulp) maybe
DC has forgotten about these beautiful stories?