Today would have been artist Jack Kirby’s 95th birthday. The impact that this “short, little feisty guy with a thick New York accent” has had on comics, and pop culture as a whole, can make your head spin. Many of the characters that he co-created—the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, the Avengers, the X-Men—have become icons and the basis for several blockbuster film franchises. But it was his art by which many fans crowned him the King of Comics.
(Image: cover of Fantastic Four #1, November 1961, Jack Kirby, Marvel Comics)
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