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Jack Kirby Information

Jacob Kurtzberg (August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994),[2] better known by the pen name Jack Kirby, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor. Growing up poor in New York City, Kurtzberg entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s. He drew various comic strips under different pseudonyms, ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1941, Kirby and writer Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics. During the 1940s, Kirby would create a number of comics for various publishers, often teamed with Simon.

After serving in World War II, Kirby returned to comics and worked in a variety of genres. He contributed to a number of publishers, including Archie Comics and DC Comics, but ultimately found himself at Timely's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, later to be known as Marvel Comics. In the 1960s, Kirby co-created many of Marvel Comics' major characters including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk along with writer-editor Stan Lee. Despite the high sales and critical acclaim of the Lee-Kirby titles, Kirby felt treated unfairly, and left the company in 1970 for rival DC Comics.

While working for DC, Kirby created his Fourth World saga, which spanned several comics titles. While these and other titles proved commercially unsuccessful and were canceled, several of their characters and the Fourth World mythos have continued as a significant part of the DC Comics universe. Kirby returned to Marvel briefly in the mid- to late 1970s, then ventured into television animation and independent comics. In his later years, Kirby received great recognition for his career accomplishments, and is regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic-book medium.

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Life and career

Early life (1917–1935)

Kirby was born in August 1917 in New York City. His father was an Austrian Jewish immigrant who earned a living as a garment-factory worker. Growing up on Suffolk Street, Kirby was often involved in street fights with other kids, he later said that "fighting became second nature. I began to like it." Through his youth Kirby desired to escape his neighborhood. He liked to draw and sought out places he could learn more about art.[3] Essentially self-taught,[4] Kirby cited among his influences the comic strip artists Milton Caniff, Hal Foster, and Alex Raymond, as well as such editorial cartoonists as C. H. Sykes, "Ding" Darling, and Rollin Kirby.[4] He was rejected by the Educational Alliance because he "[drew] too fast with charcoal", according to Kirby. He later found an outlet for his skills by drawing cartoons for the newspaper of the Boys Brotherhood Republic, a "miniature city" on East 3rd Street where street kids ran their own government.[5]

Kirby enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, at what he said was age 14, leaving after a week. "I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done".[6]

Entry into comics (1936–1940)

Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941). Cover art by Kirby & Joe Simon.

Per his sometimes-unreliable memory, Kirby joined the Lincoln Newspaper Syndicate in 1936, working there on newspaper comic strips and on single-panel advice cartoons such as Your Health Comes First!!! (under the pseudonym "Jack Curtiss"). He remained until late 1939, then worked for the movie animation company Fleischer Studios as an "inbetweener" (an artist who fills in the action between major-movement frames) on Popeye cartoons. "I went from Lincoln to Fleischer," he recalled. "From Fleischer I had to get out in a hurry because I couldn't take that kind of thing," describing it as "a factory in a sense, like my father's factory. They were manufacturing pictures."[7]

Around that time, the American comic book industry was booming. Kirby began writing and drawing for the comic-book packager Eisner & Iger, one of a handful of firms creating comics on demand for publishers. Through that company, Kirby did what he remembers as his first comic book work, for Wild Boy Magazine.[8] This included such strips as the science fiction adventure The Diary of Dr. Hayward (under the pseudonym "Curt Davis"), the Western crimefighter strip Wilton of the West (as "Fred Sande"), the swashbuckler strip The Count of Monte Cristo (again as "Jack Curtiss"), and the humor strips Abdul Jones (as "Ted Grey)" and Socko the Seadog (as "Teddy"), all variously for Jumbo Comics and other Eisner-Iger clients. He ultimately settled on the pen name Jack Kirby because it reminded him of actor James Cagney. However, he took offense to those who suggested he changed his name in order to hide his Jewish heritage.[9]

In the summer of 1940, Kirby and his family moved to Brooklyn. There, Kirby met Rosalind "Roz" Goldstein, who lived in his family's apartment building. The pair began dating soon afterward.[10] Kirby proposed to Goldstein on her eighteenth birthday, and the two became engaged.[11]

Partnership with Joe Simon (1941–1942)

Kirby moved on to comic-book publisher and newspaper syndicator Fox Feature Syndicate, earning a then-reasonable $15 a week salary. He began exploring superhero narrative with the comic strip The Blue Beetle (January-March 1940), starring a character created by the pseudonymous Charles Nicholas, a house name that Kirby retained for the three-month-long strip. During this time, Kirby met and began collaborating with cartoonist and Fox editor Joe Simon, who in addition to his staff work continued to freelance. Simon recalled in 1988, "I loved Jack's work and the first time I saw it I couldn't believe what I was seeing. He asked if we could do some freelance work together. I was delighted and I took him over to my little office. We worked from the second issue of Blue Bolt..."[12]

After leaving Fox and landing at pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman's Timely Comics (the future Marvel Comics), Simon and Kirby created the patriotic superhero Captain America in late 1940. Simon cut a deal with Goodman that gave him and Kirby 15 percent of the profits from the feature as well as salaried positions as the company's editor and art director, respectively. The first issue of Captain America Comics, released in early 1941, sold out in days, and the second issue's print run was set at over a million copies. The title's success established the team as a notable creative force in the industry.[13] After the first issue was published, Simon asked Kirby to join the Timely staff as the company's art director.[14]

Despite the success of the Captain America character, Simon felt that Goodman was not paying the pair the promised percentage of profits, and so sought work for the two of them at National Comics (later named DC Comics).[15] Kirby and Simon negotiated a deal that would pay them a combined $500 a week, as opposed to the $75 and $85 they respectively earned at Timely.[16] Fearing that Goodman would not pay them if he found out they were moving to National, the pair kept the deal a secret while they continued producing work for the company. Eventually the staff at Timely (most of whom were relatives of Goodman) found out, so Kirby and Simon left after they completed their work on Captain America Comics.[17]

Kirby and Simon spent their first weeks at National trying to come up with characters while the company attempted to find out how to use the pair.[18] After a few failed editor-assigned ghosting assignments, National's Jack Liebowitz told them to "just do what you want" since they were being paid anyway. The pair then revamped the Sandman feature in Adventure Comics and created the superhero Manhunter.[19] In July 1942 they began the Boy Commandos feature. The ongoing Boy Commandos series, launched later that same year, sold over a million copies a month, becoming National's third best-selling title.[20]

Marriage and World War II (1943–1945)

Kirby married Roz Goldstein on May 23, 1942.[21] The same year that he married, he changed his name legally from Jacob Kurtzberg to Jack Kirby.

With World War II underway, Liebowitz expected that Simon and Kirby would be drafted, so he asked the artists to create an inventory of material to be published in their absence. The pair hired writers, inkers, letterers, and colorists in order to create a year's worth of material.[20] Kirby was drafted into the U.S. Army on June 7, 1943.[22] After basic training at Camp Stewart, near Atlanta, Georgia, he was assigned to Company F of the 11th Infantry.[23] He landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy on August 23, 1944, two-and-a-half months after D-Day,[23] though Kirby's reminiscences would place his arrival just 10 days after.[22] Kirby recalled that a lieutenant, learning that comics artist Kirby was in his command, made him a scout who would advance into towns and draw reconnaissance maps and pictures.[24]

Kirby and his wife corresponded regularly by v-mail, with Roz sending "him a letter a day" while she worked in a lingerie shop and lived with her mother.[25] During the winter of 1944, Kirby suffered severe frostbite on his lower extremities and was taken to a hospital in London, England, for recovery. Doctors considered amputating Kirby's legs, but he eventually recovered from the frostbite.[26] He returned to the United States in January 1945, assigned to Camp Butner in North Carolina, where he spent the last six months of his service as part of the motor pool. Kirby was honorably discharged as a private first class on July 20, 1945, having received a combat infantry badge and a European/African/Middle Eastern Theater ribbon with a bronze battle star.[27][28]

Postwar career (1946–1955)

Young Romance #1 (October 1947). Cover art by Kirby & Simon.

After returning from the army, Kirby's first daughter, Susan, was born on December 6, 1945. Simon arranged for work for Kirby and himself at Harvey Comics.[29] There through the early 1950s, Simon and Kirby created such titles as the kid-gang adventure Boy Explorers Comics, the kid-gang western Boys' Ranch, and the superhero comics Stuntman, and, in vogue with the fad for 3-D movies, Captain 3-D. The duo additionally freelanced for Hillman Periodicals (the crime fiction comic Real Clue Crime) and for Crestwood Publications (Justice Traps the Guilty).

Kirby and Simon found success in the postwar period by creating romance comics. Simon, inspired by Macfadden Publications' romantic-confession magazine True Story, transplanted the idea to comic books and with Kirby created a first-issue mock-up of Young Romance.[30] Showing it to Crestwood general manager Maurice Rosenfeld, Simon asked for 50% of the comic's profits. Crestwood publishers Teddy Epstein and Mike Bleier agreed,[30] stipulating that the creators would take no money up front[31] Young Romance #1 (September/October 1947) "became Jack and Joe's biggest hit in years".[32] Indeed, the pioneering title sold a staggering 92% of its print run, inspiring Crestwood to increase the print run by the third issue to triple the initial number of copies.[33] Initially published bimonthly, Young Romance quickly became a monthly title and produced the spin-off Young Love — together the two titles sold two million copies per month, according to Simon[34] — later joined by Young Brides and In Love, the latter "featuring full-length romance stories".[33] Young Romance spawned dozens of imitators from publishers such as Timely, Fawcett, Quality, and Fox Feature Syndicate.[32] Despite the glut, the Simon & Kirby romance titles continued to sell millions of copies a month, which allowed Kirby to buy a house for his family in Mineola, Long Island, New York.[32]

Kirby's second child, Neal, was born in May 1948.[32] His third child, Barbara, was born in November 1952. In order to support his family, Kirby worked harder, assisted by the deal Simon arranged for the pair that gave them 50 percent of the profits for their work.[35] Bitter that Atlas Comics (formerly Timely) had relaunched Captain America in a new series, in 1954, Kirby and Simon created Fighting American; Simon recalled, "We thought we'd show them how to do Captain America".[36] While the comic book initially portrayed the protagonist as anti-Communist, in the aftermath of the Army-McCarthy hearings Simon and Kirby turned it into a satire.[37]

After Simon (1956–1957)

Sky Masters by Kirby & Wally Wood.

At the urging of a Crestwood/Prize salesman, Kirby and Simon launched their own comics company, Mainline Publications.[37] Titles included Bullseye: Western Scout, Foxhole, In Love, and Police Trap. After the duo rearranged and republished artwork from an old Crestwood story in In Love, Crestwood refused to pay Simon and Kirby.[38] After reviewing Crestwood's finances, the pair's attorney's stated that the company owed them $130,000 over the past seven years. Crestwood paid them $10,000 in addition to their recent delayed payments. However, the partnership between Kirby and Simon had become strained.[39] Simon left the industry for a career in advertising, while Kirby continued to freelance. He was instrumental in the creation of Archie Comics' The Fly and The Double Life of Private Strong, reuniting briefly with Joe Simon. He also drew some issues of Classics Illustrated.

For DC Comics, then known as National Comics, Kirby co-created with writers Dick and Dave Wood the non-superpowered adventuring quartet, the Challengers of the Unknown, in Showcase #6 (Feb. 1957), while also contributing to such anthologies as House of Mystery. During 30 months at DC, Kirby drew slightly more than 600 pages, which included 11 six-page Green Arrow stories in World's Finest Comics and Adventure Comics that, in a rarity, Kirby inked himself.[40] Kirby recast the archer as a science-fiction hero, moving him away from his Batman-formula roots, but in the process alienating Green Arrow co-creator Mort Weisinger.[41] He also began drawing a newspaper comic strip, Sky Masters of the Space Force, written by the Wood brothers and initially inked by the unrelated Wally Wood.[42]

Kirby left National Comics due largely to a contractual dispute in which editor Jack Schiff, who had been involved in getting Kirby and the Wood brothers the Sky Masters contract, claimed he was due royalties from Kirby's share of the strip's profits. Schiff successfully sued Kirby.[43] Some DC editors also had criticized him over art details, such as not drawing "the shoelaces on a cavalryman's boots" and showing a Native American "mounting his horse from the wrong side."[44]

Marvel Comics in the Silver Age (1958 – 1970)

One of comics' most iconic covers: The Avengers #4 (March 1964). Art by Kirby & George Roussos.

Kirby returned to work with Stan Lee on the cusp of the company's evolution from its 1950s incarnation as Atlas Comics (previously Timely Comics) to become Marvel. Inker Frank Giacoia approached Lee for work, but when informed that Atlas artists inked their own pencils, suggested he could "get Kirby back here to pencil some stuff."[45] Kirby was still working on DC's Challengers of the Unknown, but also searching for work from other publishers, with little success. Continuing with DC on such titles as House of Mystery and House of Secrets, Kirby drew occasional stories for Atlas, including the Lone Ranger-like Black Rider and the Fu Manchu stand-in Yellow Claw.[46]

Several months later, after his split with DC, Kirby began freelancing regularly for Atlas. Because of the poor page rates, Kirby would spend 12 to 14 hours daily at his drawing table at home, producing eight to ten pages of artwork a day.[47] His first published work at Atlas was the cover of and the seven-page story "I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers" in Strange Worlds #1 (December 1958). Initially with Christopher Rule as his regular inker, and later Dick Ayers, Kirby drew across all genres, from romance to war comics, crime stories to Westerns, but made his mark primarily with a series of supernatural-fantasy and science fiction stories featuring giant, drive-in movie-style monsters with names like Groot, the Thing from Planet X; Grottu, King of the Insects; and Fin Fang Foom for the company's many anthology series, such as Amazing Adventures, Strange Tales, Tales to Astonish, Tales of Suspense, and World of Fantasy. His bizarre designs of powerful, unearthly creatures proved a hit with readers.

With Marvel editor-in-chief Lee, Kirby began working on superhero comics again, beginning with The Fantastic Four #1 (November 1961). The landmark series became a hit that revolutionized the industry with its comparative naturalism and, eventually, a cosmic purview informed by Kirby's seemingly boundless imagination — one well-matched with the consciousness-expanding youth culture of the 1960s.

For almost a decade, Kirby provided Marvel's house style, co-creating with Stan Lee many of the Marvel characters and designing their visual motifs. At Lee's request, he often provided new-to-Marvel artists "breakdown" layouts, over which they would pencil in order to become acquainted with the Marvel look. As artist Gil Kane described:

". . . Jack was the single most influential figure in the turnaround in Marvel's fortunes from the time he rejoined the company ... It wasn't merely that Jack conceived most of the characters that are being done, but ... Jack's point of view and philosophy of drawing became the governing philosophy of the entire publishing company and, beyond the publishing company, of the entire field ... [Marvel took] Jack and use[d] him as a primer. They would get artists ... and they taught them the ABCs, which amounted to learning Jack Kirby. ... Jack was like the Holy Scripture and they simply had to follow him without deviation. That's what was told to me ... It was how they taught everyone to reconcile all those opposing attitudes to one single master point of view."[48]

Highlights other than the Fantastic Four include: Thor, the Hulk, Iron Man, the original X-Men, the Silver Surfer, Doctor Doom, Galactus, Uatu the Watcher, Magneto, Ego the Living Planet, the Inhumans and their hidden city of Attilan, and the Black Panther — comics' first known black superhero — and his African nation of Wakanda. Simon and Kirby's Captain America was also incorporated into Marvel's continuity with Kirby approving Lee's idea[citation needed] of partially remaking the character as a man out of his time and regretting the death of his sidekick.

In 1968 and 1969, Joe Simon was involved in litigation with Marvel Comics over the ownership of Captain America, initiated by Marvel after Simon registered the copyright renewal for Captain America in his own name. According to Simon, Kirby agreed to support the company in the litigation and, as part of a deal Kirby made with publisher Martin Goodman, signed over to Marvel any rights he might have had to the character.[49]

Kirby continued to expand the medium's boundaries, devising photo-collage covers and interiors, developing new drawing techniques such as the method for depicting energy fields now known as "Kirby Dots," and other experiments.[50] Yet he grew increasingly dissatisfied with working at Marvel. There have been a number of reasons given for this dissatisfaction, including resentment over Stan Lee's increasing media prominence, a lack of full creative control, anger over breaches of perceived promises by publisher Martin Goodman, and frustration over Marvel's failure to credit him specifically for his story plotting and for his character creations and co-creations.[51][52] He began to both script and draw some secondary features for Marvel, such as "The Inhumans" in Amazing Adventures and horror stories for the anthology title Chamber of Darkness, and received full credit for doing so; but he eventually left the company in 1970 for rival DC Comics, under editorial director Carmine Infantino.

DC Comics and the Fourth World saga (1971–1975)

The New Gods #1 (March 1971) Cover art by Kirby & Don Heck.

Kirby spent nearly two years negotiating a deal to move to DC Comics.[53] Kirby returned to DC in late 1970, signing a three-year contract with an option for two additional years.[54] He produced a series of interlinked titles under the blanket sobriquet "The Fourth World" including a trilogy of new titles, New Gods, Mister Miracle, and The Forever People, as well as the Superman title, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen. Kirby picked the latter book because the series was without a stable creative team and he did not want to cost anyone a job.[55] The central villain of the Fourth World series, Darkseid, and some of the Fourth World concepts, appeared in Jimmy Olsen before the launch of the other Fourth World books, giving the new titles greater exposure to potential buyers.

Kirby later produced other DC titles such as OMAC, Kamandi, The Demon, Kobra and, together with former partner Joe Simon for one last time, a new incarnation of the Sandman.

Return to Marvel (1976–1978)

Kirby then returned to Marvel Comics where he both wrote and drew Captain America and created the series The Eternals, which featured a race of inscrutable alien giants, the Celestials, whose behind-the-scenes intervention influenced the evolution of life on Earth. Kirby’s other Marvel creations in this period include Devil Dinosaur, Machine Man, and an adaptation and expansion of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey as well as an abortive attempt to do the same for the classic television series, The Prisoner.[56] He also wrote and drew Black Panther and did numerous covers across the line.

Film and animation (1979–1980)

Still dissatisfied with Marvel's treatment of him, and with the company's refusal to provide health and other employment benefits,[citation needed] Kirby left Marvel to work in animation. In that field, he did designs for Turbo Teen, Thundarr the Barbarian and other animated television series. He also worked on The Fantastic Four cartoon show, reuniting him with scriptwriter Stan Lee. He illustrated an adaptation of the Walt Disney movie The Black Hole for Walt Disney’s Treasury of Classic Tales syndicated comic strip in 1979-80.

In 1979, Kirby drew concept art for film producer Barry Geller's script treatment adapting Roger Zelazny's science fiction novel, Lord of Light, for which Geller had purchased the rights. With mutual vision Geller worked with Kirby commissioning him to imagine Hollywood set designs to also be used as architectural renderings for a Colorado theme park to be called Science Fiction Land, and announced his plans at a November press conference attended by Kirby, former NFL American football star Rosey Grier, writer Ray Bradbury, and others. While the film did not come to fruition, Kirby's drawings were used for the C.I.A.'s "Canadian caper", in which some members of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, who had avoided capture in the Iran hostage crisis, were able to escape the country posing as members of a movie location-scouting crew.[57]

Final years and death (1981–1994)

Topps Comics' Bombast #1 (April 1993). Cover art by Kirby

In the early 1980s, Pacific Comics, a new, non-newsstand comic book publisher, made a then-groundbreaking deal with Kirby to publish a creator-owned series Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers,[58] and a six-issue mini-series called Silver Star which was collected in hardcover format in 2007.[59][60][61] This, together with similar actions by other independent comics publishers as Eclipse Comics where he co-created Destroyer Duck to help Steve Gerber fight in his case versus Marvel,[62] helped establish a precedent to end the monopoly of the work for hire system, wherein comics creators, even freelancers, had owned no rights to characters they created.

Though estranged from Marvel, Kirby continued to do periodic work for DC Comics during the 1980s, including a brief revival of his New Gods saga. And in 1987, under much industry pressure, Marvel finally returned much of Kirby's original art to him.[63]

Kirby also retained ownership of characters used by Topps Comics beginning in 1993, for a set of series in what the company dubbed "The Kirbyverse".[64] These titles were derived mainly from designs and concepts that Kirby had kept in his files, some intended initially for the by-then-defunct Pacific Comics, and then licensed to Topps for what would become the "Jack Kirby's Secret City Saga" mythos.[65]

On February 6, 1994, Kirby died at age 76 of heart failure in his Thousand Oaks, California home.[66] He was buried at the Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park, Westlake Village, California.[67]

Kirby's estate

Kirby's daughter, Lisa Kirby, announced in early 2006 that she and co-writer Steve Robertson, with artist Mike Thibodeaux, planned to publish via the Marvel Comics Icon imprint, a six-issue limited series, Jack Kirby’s Galactic Bounty Hunters, featuring characters and concepts created by her father for Captain Victory.[68] The series, scripted by Lisa Kirby, Robertson, Thibodeaux, and Richard French, with pencil art by Jack Kirby and Thibodeaux, and inking by Scott Hanna and Karl Kesel primarily, ran cover-dated September 2006 to January 2007 through issue 5, and September 2007 for the final issue.[69] The series was collected in hardcover (ISBN 0-7851-2628-7) in 2007, and in trade paperback (ISBN 0-7851-2629-5) the following year.

Marvel also posthumously published a "lost" Kirby/Lee Fantastic Four story, Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventure (April 2008), with unused pages Kirby had originally drawn for Fantastic Four 108 (March 1971).[70][71]

In 2009, Kirby's family licensed to Dynamite Entertainment the right to make new comics featuring Kirby's creator-owned characters.[72] The family also served notices of termination to Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, and Sony Pictures to attempt to regain control of various Silver Age Marvel characters.[73][74] Marvel is seeking to invalidate these claims.[75] However, in mid-March 2010 Kirby's estate "sued Marvel to terminate copyrights and gain profits from [Kirby's] comic creations."[76]

Legacy

The New York Times, in a Sunday op-ed piece written more than a decade after his death, said Kirby:

... created a new grammar of storytelling and a cinematic style of motion. Once-wooden characters cascaded from one frame to another — or even from page to page — threatening to fall right out of the book into the reader's lap. The force of punches thrown was visibly and explosively evident. Even at rest, a Kirby character pulsed with tension and energy in a way that makes movie versions of the same characters seem static by comparison.[77]

Michael Chabon, in his afterword to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a fictional account of two early comics pioneers, wrote, "I want to acknowledge the deep debt I owe in this and everything else I've ever written to the work of the late Jack Kirby, the King of Comics."[78]

Several Kirby images are among those on the "Marvel Super Heroes" set of commemorative stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service on July 27, 2007.[79] Ten of the stamps are portraits of individual Marvel characters and the other 10 stamps depict individual Marvel Comic book covers. According to the credits printed on the back of the pane, Kirby's artwork is featured on: Captain America, The Thing, Silver Surfer, The Amazing Spider-Man #1, The Incredible Hulk #1, Captain America #100, The X-Men #1, and The Fantastic Four #3.[77][79]

The season-three episode of Superman: The Animated Series "Apokolips...Now! Part II" was dedicated to Kirby.[citation needed]

The season-one episode "The King" of the 2003 series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was dedicated to Kirby, and featured a character by the name "Kirby".[citation needed]

Awards and honors

Jack Kirby received a great deal of recognition over the course of his career, including the 1967 Alley Award for Best Pencil Artist.[80] The following year he was runner-up behind Jim Steranko. His other Alley Awards were:

Kirby won a Shazam Award for Special Achievement by an Individual in 1971 for his "Fourth World" series in Forever People, New Gods, Mister Miracle, and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen.[87] He was inducted into the Shazam Awards Hall of Fame in 1975.[88] In 1987 he was an inaugural inductee into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.[89] He received the 1993 Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award at that year's Eisner Awards.[90]

His work was honored posthumously in 1998: The collection of his New Gods material, Jack Kirby's New Gods, edited by Bob Kahan, won both the Harvey Award for Best Domestic Reprint Project,[91] and the Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection/Project.[92]

The Jack Kirby Awards and Jack Kirby Hall of Fame were named in his honor.

With Will Eisner, Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Gary Panter and Chris Ware, Kirby was among the artists honored in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at the Jewish Museum in New York City, New York, from September 16, 2006 to January 28, 2007.[93][94]

Bibliography

Main article: Jack Kirby bibliography

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  79. ^ a b "Postal Service Previews 2007 Commemorative Stamp Program" (October 25, 2006 press release)
  80. ^ a b 1967 Alley Awards
  81. ^ 1963 Alley Awards
  82. ^ 1964 Alley Awards
  83. ^ 1965 Alley Awards
  84. ^ 1966 Alley Awards
  85. ^ 1968 Alley Awards
  86. ^ Mark Hanerfeld, who counted the votes, first listed Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. as the winner. Later, he noticed that he had counted votes for a) "Fantastic Four by Jack Kirby", b) "Fantastic Four by Stan Lee", and c) "Fantastic Four by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby", separately. Had they been counted as one feature, these votes combined would have given the Fantastic Four the victory.
  87. ^ 1971 Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards
  88. ^ 1975 Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards
  89. ^ Will Eisner Comic Industry Award: Summary of Winners
  90. ^ The Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award
  91. ^ 1998 Harvey Award Nominees and Winners
  92. ^ 1998 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees
  93. ^ The Jewish Museum - Special Exhibition - Masters of American Comics
  94. ^ See you in the funny papers, The New York Times, October 13, 2006

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Avengers
Creators Stan Lee · Jack Kirby
Comic book titles
Primary The Avengers · West Coast Avengers
Ancillary Avengers Forever · Force Works · Great Lakes Avengers · Solo Avengers · Pet Avengers · Young Avengers
Related Titles Mighty Avengers · New Avengers · Secret Avengers · Dark Avengers · Avengers: The Initiative · Avengers Academy
Alternate continuities The Ultimates (Members) · A-Next (Members) · Marvel Adventures: The Avengers
Founding members Ant-Man · Captain America (honorary) · Hulk · Iron Man · Thor · Wasp
Opponents Baron Zemo · Collector · Count Nefaria · Egghead · Grandmaster · Graviton · Grim Reaper · Immortus · Kang · Korvac · Legion of the Unliving · Lethal Legion · Loki · Master Pandemonium · Masters of Evil · Space Phantom · Super-Adaptoid · Squadron Sinister · Taskmaster · Thanos · Ultron
Locations Avengers Mansion · Avengers Island · Avengers Tower
Storylines Kree-Skrull War · Korvac Saga · Acts of Vengeance · Operation: Galactic Storm · Bloodties · Heroes Reborn · Kang Dynasty · Avengers Disassembled · Siege
In other media Avengers in Galactic Storm · The Avengers: United They Stand · Captain America and the Avengers · The Marvel Super Heroes · Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow · Ultimate Avengers · Ultimate Avengers 2
Miscellanea Bibliography of Avengers titles · List of Avengers members
Black Panther
Creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Supporting Characters Queen Ororo Iqadi T'Challa · Brother Voodoo · Gentle · White Tiger
Villains Achebe · Baron Macabre · Erik Killmonger · Hellrazor · Kiber the Cruel · Klaw · Man-Ape · Madam Slay · Malice · Moses Magnum · Sons of the Serpent · Venomm · Windeagle
Team affiliations Avengers · Defenders · Fantastic Force · Fantastic Four
Publications Jungle Action · Marvel Premiere
Television Black Panther · Fantastic Four
Film Ultimate Avengers 2
Video games Marvel: Ultimate Alliance · Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Related articles Ebony Blade · Wakanda · Vibranium
Captain America
Creators Jack Kirby • Joe Simon
Alter egos Steve Rogers • Isaiah Bradley • William Naslund • Jeffrey Mace • Grand Director • John Walker • James Barnes
Supporting characters The Avengers • Rikki Barnes • Battlestar • Black Widow • Bucky/Winter Soldier • Sharon Carter • Demolition Man • Diamondback • Falcon • Free Spirit • Golden Girl • The Invaders • Jack Flag • Josiah X • Nick Fury • Nomad • Patriot (Eli Bradley) • U.S. Agent • Bernie Rosenthal
Villains Adolf Hitler • Aleksander Lukin • Armadillo • Arnim Zola • Baron Zemo • Batroc the Leaper • Crossbones • Doctor Faustus • Flag-Smasher • Grand Director • Hate-Monger • Nefarius • Porcupine • Protocide • Red Skull • Scourge • Serpent Society • Serpent Squad • Sin • Ultimatum • Viper (Madame Hydra)
Storylines Civil War • "The Death of Captain America" • Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America • Captain America: Reborn • "Two Americas"
Film Captain America (1944) • Captain America (1990) • Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) • The Avengers (2012)
TV series The Marvel Super Heroes • Spider-Man (1994 TV series) • The Super Hero Squad Show
Video games Captain America in: The Doom Tube of Dr. Megalomann • Spider-Man and Captain America in Doctor Doom's Revenge • Captain America and the Avengers
Miscellanea In other media • Alternate versions • Ultimate Captain America • Captain America's shield • Captain America (Marvel animated universe)
Fantastic Four
Creators Stan Lee · Jack Kirby
Main characters Mister Fantastic · The Invisible Woman · The Human Torch · The Thing
Villains Abraxas · Annihilus · Lucia von Bardas · Blastaar · Devos · Diablo · Doctor Doom · Dragon Man · Frightful Four · Galactus · Impossible Man · Klaw · Kree · Mad Thinker · Maximus · Mole Man · Molecule Man · Namor · Nicholas Scratch · Paibok · Psycho-Man · Puppet Master · Rama-Tut · Red Ghost · Ronan the Accuser · Salem's Seven · Skrulls · Super-Skrull · Terminus · Terrax · Kristoff Vernard · Wizard
Supporting characters Ant-Man · Black Panther · Galactus · Agatha Harkness · H.E.R.B.I.E. · Inhumans · Willie Lumpkin · Lyja · Alicia Masters · Alyssa Moy · Namor the Sub-Mariner · Frankie Raye · Franklin Richards · Nathaniel Richards · Valeria Richards · She-Hulk · She-Thing · Silver Surfer · Dr. Franklin Storm · Thundra · Watcher (Uatu) · Wyatt Wingfoot · Yancy Street Gang
Headquarters Baxter Building · Avengers Mansion · Four Freedoms Plaza
Titles
Main continuity 1234 · Fantastic Four · Human Torch · Marvel Collectors' Item Classics · Marvel Two-in-One · Marvel's Greatest Comics · Strange Tales · The Thing
Other continuities Challengers of the Fantastic · Earth-A · Fantastic Five · Marvel 1602: Fantastick Four · Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four · Ultimate Fantastic Four · Unstable Molecules
Storylines "The Galactus Trilogy" · "This Man... This Monster!" · "Kree-Skrull War" · "Days of Future Present" · "Heroes Reborn" · Civil War
Television series Fantastic Four (1967) · Fantastic Four (1978) · Fred and Barney Meet the Thing (1979) · Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo (1979) · Fantastic Four (1994) (episodes) · Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes (2006) (episodes)
Films

The Fantastic Four (1994) · Fantastic Four (2005) · Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

Related articles Fantastic 4: The Album
Video games Questprobe Featuring The Human Torch and The Thing (1984) · Fantastic Four (1997) · Fantastic Four (2005) · Fantastic Four TV game (2005) · Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Related articles Alternate versions of the Human Torch · Alternate versions of Mister Fantastic · Alternate versions of the Thing · Doctor Doom's Fearfall · Doom 2099 · Earth X · Fantastic Force · Fantastic Four 2099 · Fantasticar · List of devices used by Doctor Doom · Latveria · Negative Zone · Super-Villain Team-Up · Unstable molecules · Alternate versions of Doctor Doom
Silver Surfer
Creators Stan Lee • Jack Kirby
Supporting characters Adam Warlock • Air-Walker • Alicia Masters • Drax the Destroyer • Fantastic Four • Eternals • Firelord • Galactus • Infinity Watch • Mantis • Nova • Nova (Frankie Raye) • Pip the Troll • Shalla-Bal • Stardust
Villains Annihilus • Doctor Doom • Champion of the Universe • Elders of the Universe • Ego the Living Planet • Galactus • Kree • Mephisto • Morg • Nebula • Red Shift • Skrulls • Stranger • Terrax • Thanos • Tyrant
Group Affiliation Defenders • Herald of Galactus • The Order
Titles & Storylines Annihilation • Fantastic Four • The Galactus Trilogy • Heroes Reborn • The Infinity Gauntlet • Ultimate Fantastic Four • Silver Surfer
Other Media Fantastic Four (1967 TV series) • Fantastic Four (1994 TV series) • Silver Surfer (1998 TV series) • Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer • The Super Hero Squad Show • Silver Surfer
See other Power Cosmic • Supreme Intelligence • Zenn-La
Henry Pym
Creators Stan Lee · Larry Lieber · Jack Kirby
Identities Ant-Man · Giant-Man · Goliath · Yellowjacket · Dr. Pym · The Wasp
Opponents The Beast of Berlin · Black Knight · Egghead · MODAM · Hijacker · People's Defense Force · Porcupine · Ultron · Voice · Whirlwind
Supporting Characters Janet Van Dyne · Bill Foster · Scott Lang · Jocasta · Vision
Comic book titles Tales to Astonish · Marvel Feature
Teams Avengers: East Coast • West Coast • Mighty Avengers
Hercules
Creators Stan Lee · Jack Kirby
Supporting characters Aegis · Amadeus Cho · Aphrodite · Apollo · Artemis · Athena · Delphyne Gorgon · Dionysus · Hebe · Hephaestus · Hermes · Neptune · Phobos · Thor · Vesta · Zeus
Enemies Amatsu-Mikaboshi · Ares · Hera · Hippolyta · Huntsman · Pluto · Typhon
Comic books Journey into Mystery · Ares · The Incredible Hercules
Other media The Marvel Super Heroes · Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
Related articles Asgard · Asgardians · God Squad · Olympians · Olympus
Hulk
Creators Stan Lee · Jack Kirby
Supporting characters Amadeus Cho · Arabian Knight · Betty Ross · Bereet · Caiera · Marlo Chandler · Doc Samson · Hiro-Kala · Jarella · Pantheon · Rick Jones · Lyra · Sabra · She-Hulk · Skaar · Warbound · Kate Waynesboro · Jim Wilson
Villains Abomination · Achilles · Agamemnon · Ajax · Amphibion · Bi-Beast · Brian Banner · Devil Hulk · Enclave · Flux · Galaxy Master · Gamma Corps · Gargoyle · Glenn Talbot · Glob · Glorian · Gremlin · Halflife · Hulkbusters · Intelligencia · John Ryker · Leader · Madman · Maestro · Mercy · Metal Master · Missing Link · Psyklop · Ravage · Red Hulk · Red She-Hulk · Ringmaster · Speedfreek · Thunderbolt Ross · Tyrannus · U-Foes · Wendigo · Xemnu · Zzzax
Film & television
Live action The Incredible Hulk (1977) · The Incredible Hulk Returns (TV film, 1988) · The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (TV film, 1989) · The Death of the Incredible Hulk (TV film, 1990)
Animation The Marvel Super Heroes (1966) The Incredible Hulk (1982) · The Incredible Hulk (1996) (episodes) • The Super Hero Squad Show (2009)
Films Hulk (2003) The Incredible Hulk (2008) · The Avengers (2012) · Hulk Vs (animated film, 2009) · Planet Hulk (animated film, 2010)
Video games Questprobe featuring the Hulk (1984) · The Incredible Hulk (1994) · The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga (1996) · Hulk (2003) · The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (2005) · The Incredible Hulk (2008) Other: Marvel Super Heroes (SNES game) · Marvel Super Heroes (arcade game) · Marvel vs. Capcom series
Titles Hulk: The End · Hulk: The Manga · Tales to Astonish · The Rampaging Hulk
Storylines Planet Hulk · World War Hulk (World War Hulk: X-Men) · Fall of the Hulks · World War Hulks (Hulked Out Heroes)
Related articles Alternate versions · Hulk 2099 · Hulk Hands · The Incredible Hulk (roller coaster)
Inhumans
Creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Storylines Son of M · Silent War · Secret Invasion: Inhumans · "War of Kings" · "Realm of Kings"
Members
Royal Family Ahura · Black Bolt · Crystal · Gorgon · Karnak · Lockjaw · Luna · Maximus · Medusa · Triton
New Generation Alaris · Jolen · Nahrees · San · Tonaja
Others List of Inhumans
Universe Attilan · Terrigen Mist · Alpha Primitive
Iron Man
Creators Don Heck · Stan Lee · Larry Lieber · Jack Kirby
Supporting characters Bethany Cabe · Black Widow · Rumiko Fujikawa · Nick Fury · Guardsman · Maria Hill · Happy Hogan · Edwin Jarvis · Pepper Potts · Howard Stark · War Machine · Ho Yinsen
Villains Blizzard (Donnie Gill) · Blacklash/Whiplash · Controller · Crimson Dynamo (Dmitri Bukharin) · Dreadknight · Edwin Cord · Ezekiel Stane · Fin Fang Foom · Firebrand · Firepower · Ghost · Justin Hammer · Iron Man 2020 · Iron Monger · Kearson DeWitt · Living Laser · Madame Masque · Mandarin · Mauler · Melter · MODOK · Spymaster · Sunset Bain · Temugin · Titanium Man · Unicorn · Ultimo
Comic books Iron Man and Sub-Mariner · "Demon in a Bottle" · "Doomquest" · "Armor Wars" · Ultimate Iron Man · "Extremis" · Enter the Mandarin · The Invincible Iron Man · Iron Man vs. Whiplash
Films

The Invincible Iron Man · Iron Man · Iron Man 2

Soundtracks Iron Man · Iron Man 2
TV series The Marvel Super Heroes · Iron Man (episodes) · The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series) · Spider-Man: The Animated Series • Iron Man: Armored Adventures (episodes) • The Super Hero Squad Show
Video games

Captain America and the Avengers · Iron Man / X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal · The Invincible Iron Man · Marvel: Ultimate Alliance · Iron Man · Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 · Iron Man 2

Other Marvel Super Heroes (SNES game) · Marvel Super Heroes (arcade game) · Marvel vs. Capcom 2 · Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Related articles Alternate versions · In other media · Avengers Mansion · Iron Man's armor · Roxxon · Stark Industries · S.H.I.E.L.D. · Stark Tower
Thor
Creators Stan Lee • Larry Lieber • Jack Kirby
Allies Balder • Beta Ray Bill • Frey • Frigga • Hercules • Jane Foster • Heimdall • Hermod • Hoder • Idunn • Kelda • Odin • Sif • Thor Girl • Thunderstrike • Tyr • Valkyrie • Vidar • Volla • Warriors Three (Fandral • Hogun • Volstagg) • Zeus • Olympians
Enemies Absorbing Man • Ares • Atum • Bloodaxe • Cobra • Desak • Destroyer • Ego the Living Planet • Lorelei • Enchantress • Executioner • Fafnir • Fenris Wolf • Grey Gargoyle • Hela • Karnilla • Kurse • Loki • Malekith the Accursed • Man-Beast • Mangog • Midgard Serpent • Mr. Hyde • Mongoose • Perrikus • Pluto • Quicksand • Radioactive Man • Seth • Surtur • Ulik • Wrecking Crew (Wrecker • Bulldozer • Piledriver • Thunderball) • Ymir • Zarrko
In other media
Television The Marvel Super Heroes (1966) • The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988) • The Super Hero Squad Show (2009)
Film Ultimate Avengers (2006) • Ultimate Avengers 2 (2006) • Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow (2008) • Hulk Vs (2009) • Thor (2011)
Video games Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2006) • Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 (2009) • Marvel Super Hero Squad (2009)
Related articles Asgard • Asgardians • Journey into Mystery • Mjolnir • Siege • Thor: Blood Oath • Thor: Son of Asgard • Ultimate Thor
X-Men
Creators Stan Lee · Jack Kirby
Members Angel · Anole · Armor · Banshee · Beast · Bishop · Blindfold · Cable · Caliban · Cannonball · Chamber · Changeling · Cipher · Cloak and Dagger · Colossus · Cyclops · Darwin · Dazzler · Deadpool · Dust · Elixir · Forge · Emma Frost · Gambit · Gentle · Graymalkin · Nate Grey · Havok · Hellion · Hepzibah · Husk · Iceman · Ink · Joseph · Jubilee · Juggernaut · Karma · Lady Mastermind · Lifeguard · Lockheed · Longshot · Maggott · Magma · Magneto · Marrow · Marvel Girl · Mercury · Mimic · Mirage · Namor · Nightcrawler · Northstar · Omega Sentinel · Petra · Phoenix · Pixie · Polaris · Prodigy · Professor X · Psylocke · Revanche · Cecilia Reyes · Rockslide · Rogue · Sage · Shadowcat · Slipstream · Stacy X · Storm · Sunfire · Sunspot · Surge · Sway · Thunderbird (John Proudstar) · Thunderbird (Neal Shaara) · Warpath · Wolf Cub · Wolverine · X-23 · Xorn
Villains Apocalypse · Arcade · Bastion · Black Tom Cassidy · Dark Beast · Exodus · Cameron Hodge · Juggernaut · Senator Kelly · Krakoa · Lady Deathstrike · Legion · Living Monolith · Magneto · Mastermind · Mesmero · Mr. Sinister · Mojo · Mystique · Cassandra Nova · Omega Red · Onslaught · Predator X · Proteus · Madelyne Pryor · Sabretooth · Sauron · Selene · Shadow King · Silver Samurai · Spiral · Stryfe · William Stryker · Sublime · Sugar Man · Bolivar Trask · Vulcan · Wendigo · X-Cutioner
Villain teams Acolytes · Alliance of Evil · Brood · Brotherhood of Mutants (Members) · Children of the Vault · Externals · Fenris · Friends of Humanity · Gene Nation · Hellfire Club · Horsemen of Apocalypse · Marauders · Mutant Liberation Front · Nasty Boys · Phalanx · Purifiers · Reavers · Savage Land Mutates · Sentinels · Weapon X
Locations Asteroid M · Avalon · Crossmore · District X/Mutant Town · Genosha · Graymalkin Industries · Limbo · Madripoor · Massachusetts Academy · Muir Island · Providence · Savage Land · X-Mansion
Equipment & Vehicles Cerebro · Danger Room · X-Jet
Miscellanea Alpha Flight · Crimson Dawn · Dark X-Men · Fastball Special · Legacy Virus · M'Kraan Crystal · Morlocks · Mutants · Mutant Growth Hormone · New Mutants · Phoenix Force · Shi'ar · Siege Perilous · Technarchy · Third Summers Brother · Xavier Protocols
See also: X-Men in other media · X-Men storylines · X-Men comics

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