He first shows up in stories Kirby didn’t draw, didn’t write, and is thought to have done splash pages for, with finishes by others. And as of his next appearance, Kirby’s working at DC. In all likelihood, he was created by Otto Binder and Charles Nicholas, with Joe Simon...
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…editing and Kirby as “art director,” which mostly meant he drew ads as well as Cap stories. But since Whitewash didn’t appear until the first Sentinels of Liberty story Kirby didn’t draw, well, I don’t know how socially-conscious Kirby was in 1941, but that’s a thin foundation.
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Stan, on the other hand, wrote mushmouf dialogue for Whitewash, but by the 1960s had clearly changed his thinking, and become pretty strongly antiracist.
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In the 60s Stan wrote the X-Men as allegories for the Jewish experience, not civil rights. But he also wrote the Sons of the Serpent in AVENGERS and other anti-racist stories in DAREDEVIL and other books.
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I wasn’t trying to refute your observation; I was pointing out it wasn’t about the civil rights movement.
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As did Claremont, at times. Their original metaphor has been vastly expanded. But it wasn’t Stan or Jack who did the expanding; their X-Men issues are full of master race images and pogrom threats and Protocols of the Elders of Zion parallels. But what they built expanded well.
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You have to be a particularly hairbrained reactionary to start applying anti-anti-racist BS arguments to fictional characters.
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