You mean “in issue 1,” not “from issue 1.” He drew splash pages and a cover, which doesn’t suggest he co-created the characters or wrote the story. Whitewash is a horrifying character and Kirby’s barely-seen version of him isn’t good, but it also isn’t that.
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Replying to @CanadaNRx @HeerJeet
Most resources don’t know what they’re talking about; they’re guessing in the dark, based on Kirby having minimal involvement. Hell, the few pages they credit to Kirby could be by Simon.
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I’m certainly not going to lay Whitewash Jones at Kirby’s door over some far-latter-day art-identification guesses, at least. The Young Allies were originally called the Sentinels of Liberty, and they appeared in two Cap stories Kirby drew. Whitewash isn’t in either.
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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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That mistake here is thinking that egalitarianism requires that people be "objectively" equal (itself a meaningless idea). It doesn't. It requires people be treated as morally equally (i.e. all having rights). That's compatible with difference.
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With both X-men and Inhumans Kirby was trying to show that a community can be different but still have a place in democratic society because of principle of moral equality. He was being innovative and, as it happens, right.
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