User blog comment:Valerian Jones/New Gods 3 - Oh no, it's The Black Racer .../@comment-28125426-20170930141325

To be fair, Kirby never intended the Fourth World to be a continuous storyline. He had outlined a self-contained arc with a definitive ending, however, the success of the book meant Infantino pushed him to scrap the ending and make it an ongoing series. When same declined, Infantino shelved the project indefinitely and assigned Kirby to create new projects, which turned out to be Kamandi and The Demon.

Kirby may have had editorial control over his own writing, but Infantino still had ultimate control over his assignments. I for one would have liked to read the Fourth World as he original intended it, but if he had, it may have changed the course of history and he may never have created Etrigan, the greatest character ever imagined.