Comic Title: Absolute Fourth World by Jack Kirby Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2020
On Sale Date: June 30, 2020 Direct Market Date July 1, 2020
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Direct Market Date May 13, 2020
Source: DC Previews, #16

Cover Price: $150.00
Page Count: 816

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Paranoid Pill"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Mister Miracle (of Earth-1)

Writer/Penciller: Jack Kirby
Inker: Vince Colletta

Reprinted From:
Mister Miracle #3 (1971)

Feature Character(s)

• Mister Miracle (last appearance in Mister Miracle #2; next appearance in Mister Miracle #4)

Supporting Character(s)

• Oberon (last appearance in Mister Miracle #2; next appearance in Mister Miracle #4)

Villain(s)

• Doctor Bedlam (first appearance; next appearance in Mister Miracle #4)
• Several animates (automatons under the control of Doctor Bedlam; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• The workers in Chandler Towers (next appearance in Mister Miracle #4)

Comments:
This story continues in Mister Miracle #4.

Synopsis:
Doctor Bedlam, a force of extreme mental will, arrive on Earth from Apokolips by possessing the body of an automaton called an Animate. Bedlam then telephones Scott Free to offer a challenge. After explaining the danger to Oberon, Mister Miracle meets Bedlam atop Chandler Towers. The villain offers Miracle a chance to surrender, but he offer is refused. Bedlam then floods the building with gas created from a paranoid pill which turns thousands of people in the building into maniacs. Mister Miracle must then reach the lobby and exit the building to escape. However, the workers in the building capture him, lock him in a trunk, then throw the trunk down an open stairwell.