1. Since everyone is gathered together at SDCC, a twitter-essay on what we owe Jack Kirby.
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6. The pre-existing superhero was all about sensation, wish-fulfillment, wonder: Kirby added the essential ingredient of affect.
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7. Affect meaning not just emotion but we can call bodily knowledge, the scars of particular experience, made evident by Kirby's drawings.
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@HeerJeet Important detail: Captain America came out over a year *before* Pearl Harbor, agitated politically for U.S. entry into the war.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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