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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2017
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      4. The fledgling comic book industry that Kirby joined was an immigrant affair, organized into sweat-shops.

      2 replies 12 retweets 87 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2017
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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)

      3 replies 14 retweets 116 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2017
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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.

      3 replies 12 retweets 87 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2017
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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

      3 replies 21 retweets 87 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2017
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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.

      2 replies 17 retweets 89 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2017
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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.

      1 reply 12 retweets 71 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2017
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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

      2 replies 19 retweets 90 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2017
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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.

      1 reply 10 retweets 61 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2017
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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.

      2 replies 12 retweets 69 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2017
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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.

      2 replies 19 retweets 76 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2017

      14. Co-creator doesn't quite get at what Kirby did: he plotted the stories, wrote preliminary dialogue, created character design, etc.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2017
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          15. More than what he created: Kirby re-conceptualized superhero, moving it away from vigilante roots of 1930s towards cosmic space opera.

          4 replies 26 retweets 99 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2017
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          16. By fusing together romance + monster comics + science-fiction + other genres, Kirby made superheroes into a meta-genre.

          2 replies 27 retweets 87 likes
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