Jack Kirby
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Born: August 28, 1917 · New York City, New York, USA
Died: February 6, 1994 (aged 76)
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Biography
Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. He grew up in New York City and learnt to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and editorial cartoons. He entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, before settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics. During the 1940s, Kirby regularly teamed with Simon, creating numerous characters for that company and for National Comics Publications, later to become DC Comics. After serving in the European Theatre in World War II, Kirby produced work for DC Comics, Harvey Comics, Hillman Periodicals, and other publishers. At Crestwood Publications, he and Simon created the genre of romance comics and later founded their own short-lived comic company, Mainline Publications. Kirby was involved in Timely's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, which in the next decade became Marvel. There, in the 1960s, Kirby cocreated many of the company's major characters, including Ant-Man, the Avengers, the Black Panther, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Iron Man, the Silver Surfer, Thor, and the X-Men, among many others. Kirby's titles garnered high sales and critical acclaim, but in 1970, feeling he had been treated unfairly, largely in the realm of authorship credit and creators' rights, Kirby left the company for rival DC. At DC, Kirby created his Fourth World saga, which spanned several comic titles. While these series proved commercially unsuccessful and were cancelled, the Fourth World's New Gods have continued as a significant part of the DC Universe. Kirby returned to Marvel briefly in the mid-to-late 1970s and then ventured into television animation and independent comics. In his later years, Kirby, who has been called "the William Blake of comics," began receiving great recognition in the mainstream press for his career accomplishments, and in 1987 he was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. In 2017, Kirby was posthumously named a Disney Legend for his creations not only in the field of publishing but also because those creations formed the basis for The Walt Disney Company's financially and critically successful media franchise, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Kirby was married to Rosalind Goldstein in 1942. They had four children and remained married until his death from heart failure in 1994, at the age of 76. The Jack Kirby Awards and Jack Kirby Hall of Fame were named in his honour, and he is known as "The King" among comics fans for his many influential contributions to the medium. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Kirby, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
The Avengers
2012
Avengers: Infinity War
2018
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014
Iron Man
2008
Avengers: Endgame
2019
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015
Captain America: Civil War
2016
Black Panther
2018
Iron Man 3
2013
Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2017
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011
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TV Shows (3)
Self / Appearances (11)
Prisoners of Gravity
Self · 2 eps
Superpowered: The DC Story
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Self (archive footage)
Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Stan Lee
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Comic Book Confidential
Self
Jack Kirby: Story Teller
Self
The Masters of Comic Book Art
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The Overstreet World of Comic Books
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Jack Kirby: A Personal Journey
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Kirby at War: La Guerre De Kirby
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Upcoming (5)
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Teen Titans Go!
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Avengers: Infinity War
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Avengers: Infinity War
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The Avengers
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The Avengers
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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Avengers: Endgame
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Avengers: Endgame
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Spider-Man: Homecoming
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Young Justice
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Loki
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Captain America: Brave New World
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
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Spider-Man: Far From Home
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The Fantastic 4: First Steps
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The Fantastic 4: First Steps
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X-Men '97
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
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Iron Man
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Captain America: Civil War
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What If...?
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Thunderbolts*
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Iron Man 2
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Superman: The Animated Series
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The Incredible Hulk
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The Incredible Hulk
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WandaVision
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Batman Beyond
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
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Thor: Ragnarok
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Iron Man 3
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Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
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Black Adam
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Thor: Love and Thunder
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Thor
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Black Panther
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Justice League Unlimited
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Thor: The Dark World
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Hawkeye
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My Adventures with Superman
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Ant-Man
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Agatha All Along
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Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
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Ant-Man and the Wasp
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
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Captain Marvel
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The Gifted
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Eternals
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
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Super Friends
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Captain America: The First Avenger
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The New Batman Adventures
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Marvel Zombies
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Justice League
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Wonder Man
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Hulk
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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
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Justice League
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Fantastic Four
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
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I Am Groot
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Kite Man: Hell Yeah!
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
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Eyes of Wakanda
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Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes
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Fantastic Four
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
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Silver Surfer
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Marvel's Inhumans
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The Marvel Super Heroes
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Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
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LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
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Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
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Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
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Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.
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Justice League Dark
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LEGO Marvel Avengers: Strange Tails
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two
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Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
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Planet Hulk
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DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery
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Groot Takes a Bath
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Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant
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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot
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The Invincible Iron Man
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The Death and Return of Superman
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LEGO Marvel Avengers: Code Red
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Groot's First Steps
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Reign of the Supermen
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The Fantastic Four
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LEGO Marvel Avengers: Climate Conundrum
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The Incredible Hulk Returns
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Justice League: Gods and Monsters
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The Little Guy
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Magnum Opus
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Team Thor
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Ultimate Avengers 2
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Black Panther
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Groot's Pursuit
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Captain America
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The Incredible Hulk
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Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell
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X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men
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Bride of the Incredible Hulk
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Team Thor: Part 2
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Inhumans: The First Chapter
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Captain America
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Animal Man
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Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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The Return of the Incredible Hulk
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Captain America
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Captain America II: Death Too Soon
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Marvel Knights: Eternals
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DC Showcase: Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!
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Thor: Tales of Asgard
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Captain America: The Origin of Captain America
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day
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Spider-Man: Homecoming
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Supergirl
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Daredevil: Born Again
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What If...?
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Superman & Lois
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
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Superman: The Animated Series
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WandaVision
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
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Thor
Draughtsman
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Original Series Design
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Thor
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Thor: The Dark World
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Black Widow
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Hawkeye
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Captain Marvel
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Dark Phoenix
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Guardians of the Galaxy
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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
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The Lego Batman Movie
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DC's Stargirl
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Ironheart
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Ms. Marvel
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Blue Beetle
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The Centurions
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The Fantastic Four
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The Incredible Hulk
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The Fantastic Four
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Fred and Barney Meet The Thing
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X-Men
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Hulk
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