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Jack Kirby

  • Born 1917-08-28 · Died 1994-02-06

American comic book artist, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. He entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under different pen names. In 1940, he and writer-editor [Joe Simon](app://creator/6805) created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for what became Marvel. During the 1940s, Kirby regularly teamed with Simon, creating numerous characters for that company and for the predecessor of DC. After World War II, he and Simon created the genre of romance comics. Kirby was involved in Atlas Comics, which in the next decade became Marvel. There, in the 1960s, Kirby co-created many of the company's major features, including Ant-Man, The Avengers, Black Panther, Fantastic Four, X-Men, among many others. Kirby's titles garnered high sales and critical acclaim, but in 1970, feeling he had been treated unfairly, largely in the realm of authorship credit and creators' rights, Kirby left the company for rival DC. At DC, Kirby created his Fourth World saga which spanned several comics titles. While these series proved commercially unsuccessful and were canceled, the Fourth World's New Gods have continued as a significant part of the DC Universe. Kirby later ventured into television animation and independent comics. In his later years, Kirby, began receiving great recognition in the mainstream press for his career accomplishments, and in 1987 he was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

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