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A comic book artist who began working during the Golden Age of comic books and continued into the 1990s, Jack Kirby (1917-1994) created or co-created hundreds of characters, including many of today's best known superheroes. Well-regarded by his peers and fans as "King" Kirby, he began working at Marvel Comics (then Timely Comics) in 1940 with ...
Oct 6, 2021 · Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth. One of the most essential original characters Jack Kirby created for DC Comics is Kamandi. The story of a boy living after the collapse of civilization has some echoes of popular movies at the time, like Planet of the Apes . The book is a visual feast of epic and dystopian vistas, as well as unique character designs.
Jack Kirby passed away from heart failure in 1994. One of the medium's most prolific artistic legends, Jack Kirby, "The King of Comics," was an artist, writer, and editor whose work spanned the ...
Jun 20, 2023 · Before his death in 1994, Jack Kirby publicly beefed with Lee over who deserved credit for creating certain characters. As his son rehashed the conflict in his recent statement, comic book fans ...
Aug 28, 2017 · Jack Kirby earned his obscurity the hard way, by being born into poverty and spending a lifetime relentlessly laboring for the bottom feeders of the publishing world. He was born in August 1917 as ...
Aug 16, 2017 · Jack, a veteran of combat in World War II, found much to dig into when he helped kick off a new war series called SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS in 1963. Just like with their super hero teams, Kirby and Lee endowed the platoon of soldiers and their commander who populated the book with duffel bags full of personality, and their stories ...
Oct 27, 2017 · “Jack Kirby is comics,” says Mitch Gerads, who’s currently illustrating a DC Comics reboot of Kirby’s Mister Miracle. “Everything we love about comics, from the line art to the writing ...
