Jack Kirby
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- August 28, 1917
- Died
- February 6, 1994 (aged 76)
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
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
Filmography
Mister Miracle
TV · Characters · 8 eps
Untitled X-Men Film
Movie · Characters
Black Panther 3
Movie · Characters
Avengers: Secret Wars
Movie · Characters
Avengers: Doomsday
Movie · Characters
Wonder Man
TV · Characters · 8 eps
Captain America: Brave New World
Movie · Characters
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
Movie · Characters, Comic Book
Thunderbolts*
Movie · Characters
Eyes of Wakanda
TV · Characters · 4 eps
Marvel Zombies
TV · Characters · 1 ep
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Strange Tails
TV · Characters · 2 eps
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two
Movie · Characters
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
Movie · Characters
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition
Movie · Characters
X-Men '97
TV · Characters · 19 eps
Agatha All Along
TV · Characters · 9 eps
Kite Man: Hell Yeah!
TV · Characters · 3 eps
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Movie · Characters
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Movie · Characters
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Code Red
Movie · Comic Book
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
TV · Characters · 40 eps
My Adventures with Superman
TV · Characters · 1 ep
Thor: Love and Thunder
Movie · Characters
Groot's First Steps
Movie · Characters
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Movie · Characters
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
Movie · Characters
Black Adam
Movie · Characters
DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery
Movie · Characters
Magnum Opus
Movie · Characters
Groot Takes a Bath
Movie · Characters
Groot's Pursuit
Movie · Characters
The Little Guy
Movie · Characters
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
TV · Characters · 6 eps
I Am Groot
TV · Characters · 10 eps
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Movie · Characters
Eternals
Movie · Comic Book
DC Showcase: Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!
Movie · Characters
WandaVision
TV · Characters · 9 eps
Loki
TV · Characters · 12 eps
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
TV · Characters · 6 eps
What If...?
TV · Characters · 14 eps
Hawkeye
TV · Characters · 2 eps
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.
TV · Comic Book · 10 eps
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Movie · Characters
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Climate Conundrum
TV · Characters · 4 eps
Avengers: Endgame
Movie · Characters, Comic Book
Captain Marvel
Movie · Characters
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Movie · Comic Book
Reign of the Supermen
Movie · Characters
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
Movie · Characters
The Death and Return of Superman
Movie · Characters
Avengers: Infinity War
Movie · Characters, Comic Book
Black Panther
Movie · Comic Book
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Movie · Comic Book
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Movie · Characters
Justice League
Movie · Characters
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Movie · Characters
Thor: Ragnarok
Movie · Comic Book
Justice League Dark
Movie · Characters
Inhumans: The First Chapter
Movie · Characters
Team Thor: Part 2
Movie · Characters
Marvel's Inhumans
TV · Comic Book · 8 eps
The Gifted
TV · Characters · 29 eps
Marvel's Ant-Man
TV · Characters · 6 eps
Captain America: Civil War
Movie · Characters
Team Thor
Movie · Characters
Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell
Movie · Characters
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot
TV · Comic Book · 6 eps
Fantastic Four
Movie · Characters
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Movie · Comic Book, Characters
Ant-Man
Movie · Comic Book
Justice League: Gods and Monsters
Movie · Characters
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
TV · Characters · 77 eps
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Movie · Comic Book
Marvel Knights: Eternals
Movie · Characters
Thor: The Dark World
Movie · Comic Book
Iron Man 3
Movie · Comic Book
Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
Movie · Characters
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
Movie · Characters
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
TV · Comic Book · 136 eps
Teen Titans Go!
TV · Characters · 1 ep
The Avengers
Movie · Characters, Comic Book
Animal Man
TV · Characters · 1 ep
Thor: Tales of Asgard
Movie · Characters
Thor
Movie · Comic Book
Captain America: The First Avenger
Movie · Comic Book
Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant
Movie · Characters
Planet Hulk
Movie · Characters
Iron Man 2
Movie · Comic Book
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
TV · Characters · 52 eps
Black Panther
TV · Characters · 6 eps
Young Justice
TV · Characters · 48 eps
Iron Man
Movie · Comic Book
The Incredible Hulk
Movie · Comic Book
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Movie · Characters
The Invincible Iron Man
Movie · Characters
Ultimate Avengers 2
Movie · Characters
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes
TV · Writer · 1 ep
Fantastic Four
Movie · Comic Book
Justice League Unlimited
TV · Characters · 5 eps
Hulk
Movie · Characters
Justice League
TV · Characters · 4 eps
Batman Beyond
TV · Characters · 2 eps
Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Movie · Characters
Silver Surfer
TV · Characters · 13 eps
The New Batman Adventures
TV · Characters · 1 ep
Superman: The Animated Series
TV · Characters · 15 eps
The Fantastic Four
Movie · Comic Book
Captain America
Movie · Characters
X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men
TV · Characters · 1 ep
The Incredible Hulk Returns
Movie · Characters
Captain America: The Origin of Captain America
Movie · Writer
Bride of the Incredible Hulk
Movie · Characters
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
Movie · Characters
Captain America
Movie · Characters
The Return of the Incredible Hulk
Movie · Characters
The Incredible Hulk
Movie · Characters
The Incredible Hulk
TV · Writer · 82 eps
Super Friends
TV · Characters · 13 eps
Dr. Doom's Day
Movie · Writer
The Marvel Super Heroes
TV · Writer · 9 eps
Captain America
Movie · Characters