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Jacob Kurtzberg, 杰克·科比, جک کربی
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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1917-08-28
- event Death Date 1994-02-06
- school Known for: Writing
- star Popularity: 7.9
- info Birth Place New York City, New York, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Jack Kirby
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Kirby at War: La Guerre De Kirby
2017-06-06
6.6
Comic Book Confidential
1989-06-14
7.2
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
2019-12-20
0
Fantastic Four: The World's Greatest Comic Magazine
2007-06-05
7.2
Stan Lee
2023-06-10
6.5
Jack Kirby: Story Teller
2007-06-05
0
The Masters of Comic Book Art
1987-01-01
7
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001-12-23
10
The Overstreet World of Comic Books
1993-01-01
0
Jack Kirby: A Personal Journey
2017-07-01
5.7
Prisoners of Gravity
1989-08-21
7.3
Starsky & Hutch
1975-09-10
7.5
Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics
2017-11-12
7
S.W.A.T.
1975-02-24
6.8
Bob
1992-09-18
movie_edit Directing
6.8
Hulk
2003-06-19
6.8
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007-06-13
6.8
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021-03-18
6.8
The Avengers
2012-04-25
6.8
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2017-04-19
6.8
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014-07-30
6.8
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
2023-05-03
6.8
Justice League
2017-11-15
6.8
Captain America
1990-12-14
6.8
Ultimate Avengers 2
2006-08-08
6.8
Thor: Tales of Asgard
2011-05-16
6.8
Thor
2011-04-21
6.8
Thor
2011-04-21
6.8
Thor
2011-04-21
6.8
Bride of the Incredible Hulk
1980-01-30
6.8
Blue Beetle
2023-08-16
6.8
X-Men
2000-07-13
6.8
Dark Phoenix
2019-06-05
6.8
Captain America
1944-02-05
6.8
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022-05-04
6.8
Black Widow
2021-07-07
6.8
Fantastic Four
2015-08-05
6.8
Avengers: Infinity War
2018-04-25
6.8
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015-04-22
6.8
The Avengers
2012-04-25
6.8
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015-04-22
6.8
Thor
2011-04-21
6.8
Thor: The Dark World
2013-10-30
6.8
Thor
2011-04-21
6.8
Thor: The Dark World
2013-10-30
6.8
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
1979-11-23
6.8
Thor: Love and Thunder
2022-07-06
6.8
Avengers: Endgame
2019-04-24
6.8
Groot's First Steps
2022-08-10
6.8
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014-03-20
6.8
Eternals
2021-11-03
6.8
Captain Marvel
2019-03-06
6.8
The Invincible Iron Man
2007-01-23
6.8
Planet Hulk
2010-02-02
6.8
Ant-Man
2015-07-14
6.8
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022-11-09
6.8
Captain America: Civil War
2016-04-27
6.8
Iron Man
2008-04-30
6.8
Iron Man 2
2010-04-28
6.8
Iron Man 3
2013-04-18
6.8
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
2022-11-24
6.8
Justice League: Gods and Monsters
2015-06-18
6.8
The Incredible Hulk
2008-06-12
6.8
Black Panther
2018-02-13
6.8
Fantastic Four
2005-06-29
6.8
Avengers: Infinity War
2018-04-25
6.8
Captain America
1979-01-19
6.8
Avengers: Endgame
2019-04-24
6.8
Black Adam
2022-10-19
6.8
Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017-07-05
6.8
Captain Marvel
2019-03-06
6.8
Thor: Ragnarok
2017-10-02
6.8
Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019-06-28
6.8
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011-07-22
6.8
Silver Surfer
2020-11-20
6.8
Justice League Dark
2017-01-24
6.8
The Return of the Incredible Hulk
1977-11-27
6.8
Team Thor
2016-08-28
6.8
Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell
2016-10-21
6.8
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two
2024-04-22
6.8
Thor 5
6.8
Inhumans: The First Chapter
2017-09-01
6.8
Untitled X-Men Movie
6.8
Captain America: Brave New World
2025-02-12
6.8
Marvel Knights: Eternals
2014-09-16
6.8
The Incredible Hulk Returns
1988-05-22
6.8
Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
1998-05-26
6.8
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018-07-04
6.8
Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017-07-05
6.8
Reign of the Supermen
2019-01-13
6.8
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
2024-07-15
6.8
Avengers: Doomsday
2026-04-29
6.8
The Fantastic Four
1994-05-31
6.8
The Lego Batman Movie
2017-02-08
6.8
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
2019-07-21
6.8
Constantine: The House of Mystery
2022-05-02
6.8
Avengers: Secret Wars
2027-05-05
6.8
The Death and Return of Superman
2019-10-01
6.8
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
2020-05-05
6.8
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023-02-15
6.8
The Incredible Hulk
1977-11-04
6.8
Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant
2011-09-13
6.8
Team Thor: Part 2
2017-02-14
6.8
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
2025-07-23
6.8
DC Showcase: Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!
2021-04-27
6.8
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024-07-24
6.8
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition
2024-10-17
6.8
Black Panther 3
6.8
The Incredible Hulk
1977-11-04
6.8
Marvel's Inhumans
2017-09-29
6.8
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot
2016-12-13
6.8
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023-02-10
6.8
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
2010-10-20
6.8
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013-09-24
6.8
The Gifted
2017-10-02
6.8
Black Panther
2010-01-16
6.8
WandaVision
2021-01-15
6.8
WandaVision
2021-01-15
6.8
Loki
2021-06-09
6.8
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
2021-03-19
6.8
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
2015-09-05
6.8
What If...?
2021-08-11
6.8
Silver Surfer
1998-02-07
6.8
DC's Stargirl
2020-05-18
6.8
Hawkeye
2021-11-24
6.8
Hawkeye
2021-11-24
6.8
Young Justice
2010-11-26
6.8
Supergirl
2015-10-26
6.8
Ms. Marvel
2022-06-08
6.8
Superman & Lois
2021-02-23
6.8
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
2022-08-18
6.8
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
2022-08-18
6.8
Wonder Man
6.8
Teen Titans Go!
2013-04-23
6.8
X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men
1989-09-16
6.8
I Am Groot
2022-08-10
6.8
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.
2021-05-21
6.8
What If...?
2021-08-11
6.8
Superman: The Animated Series
1996-09-06
6.8
The New Batman Adventures
1997-09-13
6.8
Batman Beyond
1999-01-10
6.8
Superman: The Animated Series
1996-09-06
6.8
Justice League Unlimited
2004-07-31
6.8
Super Friends
1973-09-08
6.8
Justice League
2001-11-17
6.8
X-Men '97
2024-03-20
6.8
Agatha All Along
2024-09-18
6.8
Kite Man: Hell Yeah!
2024-07-18
6.8
The Centurions
1986-04-07
6.8
Fantastic Four
1967-09-09
6.8
Fred and Barney Meet The Thing
1979-09-08
6.8
The Fantastic Four
1978-09-09
6.8
Fantastic Four
1994-09-24
6.8
The Incredible Hulk
1982-09-18
6.8
Hulk
1966-09-06