1. For veterans day, I have a few thoughts on Jack Kirby, the Holocaust, & the traumas of war.
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9. Thor cover drawn by Jack Kirby from March, 1963. Remember Kirby's feet almost amputated from frostbite.pic.twitter.com/uYFoqxmpCp
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10. In 1960s & onward, Kirby increasingly did stories about Holocaust, often metaphorically (Galactus) but sometimes literally (this from Our Fighting Forces #160, 1974)pic.twitter.com/AXn9qT4yV7
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11. In 1970s, Kirby returned to theme of super-soldier but with deeper emphasis on trauma, alienation & unprocessed memorieshttps://twitter.com/GlenDavidGold/status/921557340406530048 …
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12. Thread of traumatized super-soldier runs through late period Kirby: Orion, OMAC, 1970s Captain America, Silver Star, etc
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13. Kirby's sympathy for 1960s counterculture (in The Forever People) connected: although no pacifist he understood desire to flee war.
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The "man out of time" theme was most prevalent & poignant when Cap was just 20 yrs removed from WWII than now when it would be 70 yrs (the current Marvel films).
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It's an unfortunate missing element in Captain America these days. We mostly get some jokes about Steve Rogers not getting some elements of pop culture as opposed to *everyone he once knew being dead now.*
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Wow. Never put that together before but it's so clear.
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