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Jack Kirby

28-08-1917 † 06-02-1994

Gender

Male

Gender

Male

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.

Projects

Writing (59)

Movie

Untitled X-Men Film

TBA Characters

Movie

Avengers: Secret Wars

17-12-2027 Characters

Movie

Avengers: Doomsday

17-12-2026 Characters

Serie

Wonder Man

December 2025 Characters

Serie

Eyes of Wakanda

01-08-2025 Characters

Movie

The Fantastic 4: First Steps

23-07-2025 Characters, Comic Book

Movie

Thunderbolts*

30-04-2025 Characters

Movie

Captain America: Brave New World

12-02-2025 Characters

Serie

What If...? Season 3

22-12-2024 Characters

Serie

Agatha All Along

18-09-2024 Characters

Movie

Deadpool & Wolverine

24-07-2024 Characters

Serie

X-Men '97

20-03-2024 Characters

Serie

What If...? Season 2

22-12-2023 Characters

Serie

Loki Season 2

05-10-2023 Characters

Serie

I Am Groot Season 2

06-09-2023 Characters

Movie

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

03-05-2023 Characters

Movie

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

15-02-2023 Characters

Special

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

24-11-2022 Characters

Movie

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

09-11-2022 Characters

Serie

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

18-08-2022 Characters

Serie

I Am Groot Season 1

10-08-2022 Characters

Movie

Thor: Love and Thunder

06-07-2022 Characters

Serie

Hawkeye

24-11-2021 Characters

Movie

Eternals

03-11-2021 Comic Book

Serie

What If...? Season 1

11-08-2021 Characters

Serie

Loki Season 1

09-06-2021 Characters

Serie

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

19-03-2021 Characters

Serie

WandaVision

15-01-2021 Characters

Serie

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 7

27-05-2020 Comic Book

Movie

Spider-Man: Far From Home

28-06-2019 Comic Book

Serie

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 6

10-05-2019 Comic Book

Movie

Avengers: Endgame

24-04-2019 Characters, Comic Book

Movie

Captain Marvel

06-03-2019 Characters

Movie

Ant-Man and the Wasp

04-07-2018 Comic Book

Movie

Avengers: Infinity War

25-04-2018 Characters, Comic Book

Movie

Black Panther

13-02-2018 Comic Book

Serie

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5

01-12-2017 Comic Book

Movie

Thor: Ragnarok

02-10-2017 Comic Book

Movie

Spider-Man: Homecoming

05-07-2017 Characters

Movie

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

19-04-2017 Characters

Serie

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 4

20-09-2016 Comic Book

Movie

Captain America: Civil War

27-04-2016 Characters

Serie

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 3

29-09-2015 Comic Book

Movie

Fantastic Four

05-08-2015 Characters

Movie

Ant-Man

14-07-2015 Comic Book

Movie

Avengers: Age of Ultron

22-04-2015 Comic Book, Characters

Serie

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2

23-09-2014 Comic Book

Movie

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

20-03-2014 Comic Book

Movie

Thor: The Dark World

30-10-2013 Comic Book

Serie

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1

24-09-2013 Comic Book

Movie

Iron Man 3

18-04-2013 Comic Book

Movie

The Avengers

25-04-2012 Characters, Comic Book

Movie

Captain America: The First Avenger

22-07-2011 Comic Book

Movie

Thor

21-04-2011 Comic Book

Movie

Iron Man 2

28-04-2010 Comic Book

Movie

The Incredible Hulk

12-06-2008 Comic Book

Movie

Iron Man

30-04-2008 Comic Book

Movie

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

13-06-2007 Characters

Movie

Fantastic Four

29-06-2005 Comic Book

Art (1)

Movie

Thor

21-04-2011 Draughtsman, Original Series Design

Visual Effects (1)

Movie

Thor

21-04-2011 Character Designer

Crew (17)

Serie

Ironheart

24-06-2025 Thanks

Serie

Daredevil: Born Again

04-03-2025 Thanks

Serie

What If...? Season 3

22-12-2024 Thanks

Serie

What If...? Season 2

22-12-2023 Thanks

Serie

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

18-08-2022 Thanks

Serie

Ms. Marvel

08-06-2022 Thanks

Movie

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

04-05-2022 Thanks

Serie

Hawkeye

24-11-2021 Thanks

Movie

Black Widow

07-07-2021 Thanks

Serie

WandaVision

15-01-2021 Thanks

Movie

Dark Phoenix

05-06-2019 Thanks

Movie

Captain Marvel

06-03-2019 Thanks

Movie

Spider-Man: Homecoming

05-07-2017 Thanks

Movie

Guardians of the Galaxy

30-07-2014 Thanks

Movie

Thor: The Dark World

30-10-2013 Thanks

Movie

Thor

21-04-2011 Thanks

Movie

X-Men

13-07-2000 Thanks