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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

      1. So I have a few thoughts on Jack Kirby, the Kennedy assassination, @aoscott, @tnyfrontrow, movie franchises and open narratives.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

      2. The Marvel Universe -- the sprawling, endless multi-authored roman-fleuve -- was an ad hoc creation which expanded by fits and starts. One major transformative moment came when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

      3. The Fantastic Four, launched in 1961, was Marvel's flagship title and very much a product of Kennedy Era new frontier Cold War liberalism: four adventurers who go into space in order to one-up the Soviets.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

      4. Kirby, a classic New Dealer, made characters of FF analogues to parts of Democratic coalition. Mr. Fantastic (technocratic intellectual), the Thing (white ethnics), Johnny Storm (youth), Invisible Girl (pre-feminist suburban women).

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

      5. Mr. Fantastic & Thing were both war veterans, like Kirby and J.F.K. With trim hair (whitening on sides), Mr. Fantastic looks like one of those Kennedy era ramrod executives: Kennedy himself or McNamara.pic.twitter.com/3P4HgF7HWG

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

      6. Kirby once told his assistant (and future biographer) Mark Evanier that the Kennedy assassination had a big impact on his art.pic.twitter.com/HxzDD7RKN0

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

          7. How did JFK's assassination change Kirby's work? As Kevin Ainesworth argued in Jack Kirby Collector, it changed Kirby's narrative strategy. Pre-1963, Kirby's stories were tight, one-and-done. After, he moved to open-ended, sprawling stories.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

          8. According to Evanier, this is likely the comic Kirby was working on when he heard JFK died. Notice plot point is Mr. Fantastic (JFK stand-in) wounded.pic.twitter.com/CclhyJloAp

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

          9. JFK's assassination seems to have turned Kirby away from classic beginning-middle-end narratives to open-ended, unresolved soap operas where it is just one-thing-after another. Life goes on narratives.

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

          10. In JFK's death was the seeds of what Sean Howe calls "the snowballing Marvel Universe, which expanded to become the most intricate fictional narrative in the history of the world: thousand upon thousands of interlocking characters & episodes."

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

          11. The smartest reviews of new Avengers flick (by @aoscott & @tnyfrontrow) have keyed into the sprawling overstuffed nature of Marvel Universe, and demands it makes on audience comprehension & narrative coherence.

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        7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

          12. Of course, Kirby's narrative shift, a product of an artist reacting to the chaos of the 1960s, has now turned into a perfect tool for capitalist Hollywood to make endless films about the same characters; franchising.

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        8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

          13. Opened ended narratives & universal franchising do pose problems for art, which I explore with my colleagues @Jo_Livingstone & @alex_shephard here: https://newrepublic.com/article/148198/comics-killing-movies …

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