1. Jacob Kurtzberg, born 100 years ago today, became one of the most important and influential artists of the last century: Jack Kirby.
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2. Who was Jack Kirby? One way to think of Kirby is that his life distilled the arc of the American century.pic.twitter.com/lksn8ZcKv3
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3. Kirby was born in the slums of New York, the son of Jewish immigrants from Austria. A depression child he was working out of high school
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4. The fledgling comic book industry that Kirby joined was an immigrant affair, organized into sweat-shops.
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5. In 1941, Kirby & his partner Joe Simon created Captain America, a allegory for USA (scrawny wimp helped by science to become superpower)
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6. During war, Kirby was in 11th infantry under General George Patton, landing in Omaha Beach two months after D-Day.
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7. After war Kirby & Simon codified & popularized new genre of Romance Comics, which sold in the millions.pic.twitter.com/Lv50BCokTi
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8. Kirby's super-hero loving fans generally ignore the romance comics but there were crucial: they expanded the affective range of comics.
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9. In the boom & bust world of comics, Kirby & Simon worked in many genres: romance, western, horror, crime, science fiction, etc.
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10. Working in so many genres, Kirby started to mix & match them. The Marvel superhero books are fusion of romance, monster & superheroes
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11. Kirby's partnership with Joe Simon broke up after the comic book crack-down led by the Senate. This led him to work for Stan Lee.
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12. The partnership with Lee/Marvel was born of necessity, not desire: Kirby had been blackballed by DC because he feud/lawsuit with editor.
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13. At Marvel Kirby co-created an immense pantheon of characters: Fantastic Four, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, X-Men, Black Panther, Avengers, etc.
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