While Stan Lee is often hailed as the father of modern Marvel stories, his cameo in The Fantastic Four: First Steps finally corrects a repeated issue with the Marvel Comics' live-action adaptations.
There is a famous story about Jack Kirby going on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.” When Johnny read his intro off a card that said, “My next guest is known as the ‘king of comics,’” Johnny ...
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 ...
Jack Kirby has a legacy like no other — and considering one of his most beloved creations, The Fantastic Four, is getting an all-new film revamp later this month, the city of New York saw fit to honor ...
The problem facing the curators of a new exhibit on comic book creator Jack Kirby wasn’t finding enough art and archival material to depict the life and career of the man who helped create such iconic ...
“Jack Kirby: Heroes and Humanity” opens today at the Skirball Cultural Center. Kirby is the mastermind behind iconic comic book characters such as Black Panther, Captain America, and The Avengers.
Jack Kirby was a comic book superhero. As an artist and writer, he was the essential creator or co-creator behind entire worlds of heroes and villains, interstellar conflicts, and what has become ...
The cover of the first issue of Captain America shows the superhero punching Hitler in the face. Jack Kirby, the man who drew it in 1940, went on to fight in World War II against that real-life ...
Kirby’s influence extended across decades, from co-creating Marvel’s major superheroes to shaping entire genres in postwar publishing. Photo: Sarah M Golonka | smg photography, courtesy Skirball ...
Kirby helped shape the industry into what it is today, creating Captain America, and co-creating many more characters. CBS News New York's Dave Carlin spoke to the man working to make the street ...