Kamandi and Tuftan

DC Comics editor-in-chief Carmine Infantino had sought to acquire the rights to publish the comic based on the hit film Planet of the Apes. Having failed in the enterprise, he asked Jack Kirby to design a series of similar setting. Kirby had not seen the film but knew the plot broadly, and had also already created a similar story, The Last Enemy!, published in 1957 by Harvey Comics in Alarming Tales n. 1, even earlier than the original novel La Planète des singes by Pierre Boulle. He had also drawn an unused strip from 1956 called Kamandi of the Caves. Kirby brought all these elements together to create Kamandi.