{"id":4460,"date":"2026-01-22T10:04:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:25:32","slug":"short-box-mister-miracle-by-steve-englehart-steve-gerber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/2026\/01\/22\/short-box-mister-miracle-by-steve-englehart-steve-gerber\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Box: Mister Miracle By Steve Englehart & Steve Gerber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Mister Miracle By Steve Englehart & Steve Gerber HC<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Release:  <\/td>Mar 11, 2020<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Creators<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Writer<\/td>Steve Englehart, Bob Haney, Steve Gerber, John Harkness, Robert Kanigher<\/td><\/tr>
Artist<\/td>Rich Buckler, Michael Golden, Howard Purcell, Jim Aparo, Irv Novick<\/td><\/tr>
Cover Artist<\/td>Marshall Rogers<\/td><\/tr>
Penciller<\/td>Marshall Rogers, Ramona Fradon, Michael Golden<\/td><\/tr>
Inker<\/td>Joe Giella, Vince Colletta, Rick J. Bryant, Charles Paris, Ilya Hunch, Dick Giordano, Russ Heath, John Fuller<\/td><\/tr>
Colorist<\/td>Jerry Serpe, D.R. Martin, W. Argyle Nelson-Smith, Cory Adams, Cornelia Adams, Liz B\u00e9rub\u00e9<\/td><\/tr>
Letterer<\/td>Clem Robins, John E. Workman Jr., Milt Snapinn, Morris Waldinger, Jim Aparo, Ben Oda<\/td><\/tr>
Editor<\/td>Murray Boltinoff, Larry Hama, Julius Schwartz, Dennis O’Neil<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I’ve got a set of shelves reserved for my omnibuses, compendiums, and deluxe edition hardcovers that I’ve been – mostly – making my way through in alphabetical order. I say “mostly” because I’ve skipped around a bit to read things like the ROM<\/em> and Micronauts<\/em> omnibuses and to focus on reading things that I have not previously read in other formats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I reached The Fourth World by John Byrne<\/em> omnibus, I decided I should first divert from that specialized shelf over to my Absolute Edition shelf and finish reading the original Fourth World<\/em> saga by its creator Jack “King” Kirby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d originally picked up an omnibus of that years ago, but when the two Absolute Editions were released, I opted to pick those up and gifted that great honking omnibus to my friend Scott (not Scott Free<\/em>). I picked up where I’d left off in the first volume, then moved on to the second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I finished that, I decided to keep stalling on the Byrne and read the collections of other Fourth World<\/em> content I have that preceded him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which brings us, finally, to this, a collection of stories featuring Mister Miracle and company released in the years after Kirby’s original run ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Englehart and Steve Gerger are called out in the title, but it strikes me as a bit odd that Bob Haney is left out, as he wrote just as many of the stories contained in the volume as Gerber did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those stories featured the super escape artist teaming up with a certain Dark Knight Detective who is something of an escape artist himself and are exactly the kind of wackiness that you’d expect from Haney Brave and the Bold<\/em> stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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