Jack Kirby
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.
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Fotos
Películas (100)
Black Panther 3
2028 · Characters
Untitled X-Men Film
2028 · Characters
Avengers: Secret Wars
2027 · Characters
Vengadores: Doomsday
2026 · Characters
Spider-Man: Un nuevo día
2026 · Thanks
Los 4 Fantásticos: Primeros pasos
2025 · Characters, Comic Book
Thunderbolts*
2025 · Characters
Capitán América: Un nuevo mundo
2025 · Characters
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Misión Demolición
2024 · Characters
La Liga De La Justicia: Crisis En Las Tierras Infinitas Parte 3
2024 · Characters
La Liga De La Justicia: Crisis En Las Tierras Infinitas Parte 2
2024 · Characters
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Código rojo
2023 · Comic Book
Blue Beetle
2023 · Thanks
Stan Lee
2023 · Self (voice) (archive footage)
Guardianes de la Galaxia volumen 3
2023 · Characters
Ant-Man y la Avispa: Quantumanía
2023 · Characters
Guardianes de la Galaxia: Especial de las fiestas
2022 · Characters
Pantera Negra: Wakanda por siempre
2022 · Characters
Black Adam
2022 · Characters
Los primeros pasos de Groot
2022 · Characters
Groot se da un baño
2022 · Characters
Una noche movidita
2022 · Characters
El chiquitín
2022 · Characters
Obra maestra
2022 · Characters
Thor: Amor y Trueno
2022 · Characters
Doctor Strange en el multiverso de la locura
2022 · Thanks
Constantine: La Casa del Misterio
2022 · Characters
Eternals
2021 · Comic Book
Shang-Chi y la leyenda de los Diez Anillos
2021 · Thanks
Viuda Negra
2021 · Thanks
DC Showcase: Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!
2021 · Characters
La Liga de la Justicia de Zack Snyder
2021 · Characters
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
2020 · Characters
The Death and Return of Superman
2019 · Characters
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
2019 · Characters
Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019 · Comic Book
Dark Phoenix
2019 · Thanks
Vengadores: Endgame
2019 · Characters, Comic Book
Captain Marvel
2019 · Thanks, Characters
Reign of the Supermen
2019 · Characters
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018 · Comic Book
Vengadores: Infinity War
2018 · Characters, Comic Book
Black Panther
2018 · Comic Book
Justice League
2017 · Characters
Thor: Ragnarok
2017 · Comic Book
Inhumans: The First Chapter
2017 · Characters
Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017 · Characters, Thanks
Jack Kirby: A Personal Journey
2017 · Himself
Kirby at War: La Guerre De Kirby
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2017 · Characters
Team Thor: Part 2
2017 · Characters
The Lego Batman Movie
2017 · Thanks
Justice League Dark
2017 · Characters
Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell
2016 · Characters
Team Thor
2016 · Characters
Captain America: Civil War
2016 · Characters
Fantastic Four
2015 · Characters
Ant-Man
2015 · Comic Book
Justice League: Gods and Monsters
2015 · Characters
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015 · Comic Book, Characters
Marvel Knights: Eternals
2014 · Characters
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014 · Thanks
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014 · Comic Book
Thor: The Dark World
2013 · Comic Book, Thanks
Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
2013 · Characters
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
2013 · Characters
Iron Man 3
2013 · Comic Book
The Avengers
2012 · Characters, Comic Book
Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant
2011 · Characters
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 · Comic Book
Thor: Tales of Asgard
2011 · Characters
Thor
2011 · Draughtsman, Original Series Design, Character Designer, Comic Book, Thanks
Iron Man 2
2010 · Comic Book
Planet Hulk
2010 · Characters
The Incredible Hulk
2008 · Comic Book
Iron Man
2008 · Comic Book
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007 · Characters
Jack Kirby: Story Teller
2007 · Self
The Invincible Iron Man
2007 · Characters
Ultimate Avengers 2
2006 · Characters
Fantastic Four
2005 · Comic Book
Hulk
2003 · Characters
De SUPERMAN a SPIDERMAN, la aventura de los superhéroes
2001 · Self (archive footage)
X-Men
2000 · Thanks
Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
1998 · Characters
The Fantastic Four
1994 · Comic Book
The Overstreet World of Comic Books
1993 · Self
Captain America
1990 · Characters
Comic Book Confidential
1989 · Self
The Incredible Hulk Returns
1988 · Characters
The Masters of Comic Book Art
1987 · Self
Captain America: The Origin of Captain America
1985 · Writer
Bride of the Incredible Hulk
1980 · Characters
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
1979 · Characters
Captain America
1979 · Characters
The Return of the Incredible Hulk
1977 · Characters
The Incredible Hulk
1977 · Characters
Dr. Doom's Day
1966 · Writer
Captain America
1944 · Characters
Kirbyvision
· Self (archive footage)
Series (59)
VisionQuest
2026 · Thanks
Wonder Man
2026 · Characters
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Historias extrañas
2025 · Characters
Marvel Zombis
2025 · Characters
Los ojos de Wakanda
2025 · Characters
Ironheart
2025 · Thanks
Daredevil: Born Again
2025 · Thanks
Agatha en todas partes
2024 · Characters
Hombre Cometa: ¡Oh, sí!
2024 · Characters
X-Men '97
2024 · Characters
Superpoderosos: La Historia de DC
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Mis Aventuras con Superman
2023 · Characters
Moon Girl y Devil, el dinosaurio
2023 · Characters
She-Hulk: Defensora de héroes
2022 · Characters, Thanks
Yo soy Groot
2022 · Characters
Ms. Marvel
2022 · Thanks
Ojo de Halcón
2021 · Characters, Thanks
¿Qué pasaría si...?
2021 · Characters, Thanks
Loki
2021 · Characters
Marvels M.O.D.O.K
2021 · Comic Book
Falcon Y El Soldado Del Invierno
2021 · Characters
Superman y Lois
2021 · Thanks
Bruja Escarlata y Visión
2021 · Characters, Thanks
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Climate Conundrum
2020 · Characters
Stargirl
2020 · Thanks
Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics
2017 · Self (archive footage)
The Gifted
2017 · Characters
Marvel's Inhumans
2017 · Comic Book
Marvel's Ant-Man
2017 · Characters
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot
2016 · Comic Book
Supergirl
2015 · Thanks
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
2015 · Characters
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013 · Comic Book
Teen Titans Go!
2013 · Characters
Animal Man
2012 · Characters
Young Justice
2010 · Characters
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
2010 · Characters
Black Panther
2010 · Characters
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes
2006 · Writer
Justice League Unlimited
2004 · Characters
Justice League
2001 · Characters
Batman Beyond
1999 · Characters
Silver Surfer
1998 · Characters
The New Batman Adventures
1997 · Characters
Superman: The Animated Series
1996 · Thanks, Characters
Bob
1992 · Jack Kirby
X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men
1989 · Characters
Prisoners of Gravity
1989 · Self
The Centurions
1986 · Creative Consultant
The Incredible Hulk
1982 · Creator
Fred and Barney Meet The Thing
1979 · Creator
The Fantastic Four
1978 · Creator
The Incredible Hulk
1977 · Writer
Starsky & Hutch
1975
S.W.A.T.
1975
Super Friends
1973 · Characters
The Fantastic Four
1967 · Creator
The Marvel Super Heroes
1966 · Writer
Mister Miracle
· Characters