As Neil Gaiman aptly points out: Jack Kirby was ahead of his time. Big budget superhero flicks? Jack predicted that. Comics not only sold in bookstores but treated as serious literature? Jack predicted that. The invasive nature of technology in our lives, the Mother Box called a cell phone in everyone's hand, virtual reality? Jack predicted it all. And he wasn't just the oracle of what was to come; he was the shaper. All the popular media he influenced, whether consumers know his name or not, are part of our modern mythology; they're a part of how we view the world; and it’s a shame he didn't live long enough to see it all happen. So the next time you go see the latest superhero blockbuster, pick up an action figure, play a video game, browse through the graphic novel section of a bookstore or library, or just sit down and read a comic book, think about the man without whom a lot of that stuff wouldn't even exist today. And then say: Hail to the KING, baby!
Jack Kirby was one of the greatest and most influential people of all time! Without him, we wouldn't have the Fantastic Four, X-Men, Captain America, Incredible Hulk, The Avengers, New Gods, Darkseid. His creations live on forever. Jack Kirby was the greatest man who ever lived. His art is so astounding and imaginative, ingenious that people are inspired by his art. My favorite comic book artist! Long Live the King!
I love when they use the word Creator, and not just artist. He created the stories, developed the characters and realized universes. Jack Kirby is the King of comics.
Kirby was such a creative mind and he shaped our modern mythology as we know it, he needs to be a household name just like Stan Lee. Long live the king.
@@birthmoviesdeath That one is hard for me, as there's a lot of evidence that Kane barely did anything (compared to Kirby and Lee where the split is more nebulous). Quite frankly, even saying "Batman created by Bill Finger with Bob Kane" would be being generous imo.
Put it to you this way if you open a comic would you rather read Stans writing with blank pages or would you rather look at Jacks art with empty story bubbles. As much as Stan wants to take credit it was mostly Kirby who came up with these characters. Im sure Stan had some input in a few like Spidey , and the X Men but Hulk , Thor , and Cap was Kirby. Look at the characters that each one created after they broke up. Stan ..."crickets"... Kirby...New Gods , Darkseid , Forever People , Mister Miracle , Big Barda , Steppenwolf, Granny Goodness ,Black Racer , Apokolips , New Genesis , The Anti Life Equation, Mother Boxes, The Demon , Kamandi etc he list goes on and on....that right there shows you who was really coming up with fucking characters and not just saying they were.
The comics Jack Kirby created wasn't just him 'doing a job' they were an absolute labor of love and I think he knew that. He wrote not just for the readers of his day, but people like me who would be born long after he passed. As someone born after his time, I still have a deep appreciation for his art. I'll never meet Jack and he'll never meet me but there's a connection still all these years later between reader and artist when I read his comic books. Stanley and Jack's works will continue for many many decades to follow.
Jack was such a fucking boss - he created some of the best characters ever in Marvel, then went to DC for 4 years, created their best villian ever (Darkseid) and on the way influenced the best Marvel villian ever (Thanos). The man is beyond a legend.
"I did a version of Thor for D.C. in the fifties before I did him for Marvel. I created Thor at Marvel because I was forever enamored of legends, which is why I knew about Balder, Heimdall, and Odin. I tried to update Thor and put him into a superhero costume, but he was still Thor." - Jack Kirby Interview¹ ¹James Van Hise, “Superheroes: The Language That Jack Kirby Wrote,” Comics Feature #34, March-April 1985.)
People must realize that you gotta be humble to be a good artist. Turns out being humble doesn't get you deals or enable you to lead a successful company. Add that to the saying 'history is written by the victorious' and it's clear why Stan got the spot light much more than Jack. Still, Stan is replaceable but not Jack. Much like many illustrators, Jack got thrown in some aley and the talentless silvertongued businessman gets all the credit for his work. Not saying Stan wasn't talented, I love him but Jack is comics and Stan happened to be in the right place at the right time around the right people
Its kind of odd and misterious why Kirby was pushed to the shadow being a creative power house like he was(maybe marvel was afraid he’d leave if he got the recognition,like later happened with the Image guys), I dont know, but The first image i remember seen printed about Captain America on a enciclopedia volume speaking about comics . The image stuck on mi mind forever, because it is very dramatic,full of action and movement and the lines applied to build it are a sinthesis of real life perception of form of the human anatomy. Once you have seen Kirby art you cant get him away as a guideline to achieve that poping action to your own drawings.
Stan Lee is beyond wreckage. He is suffering to give credit to Kirby,Ditko which they truly deserves(even a lot more than him). "Cap America, Wolverine, Fantastic Four, Iron Man" where he is not creator, writer, penciller or anything, except publisher.. but give credit more to himself, "we" "we" "we did it". He is reason Kirby(The King), Ditko, and many left marvel. I really wish these legends living long and creating many more loved characters, but deep down I sense a pinch of relief that they are resting in peace, without seeing the atrocities done by Stan Lee, in the recent years, After they passed-on, he stole the whole credit, calling himself the sole creator of marvel, now saying "I" "I" "I did it". To the people who defend him by saying, 'he is a marketing/businessman type of guy." But you have to understand the difference btw "Selling the comic Vs. Selling away his co-workers/friends". He did the latter.
Lee has co created many comics with these creators. Plus, he's also the writer for most of the popular characters ever. If stan wasn't there, these characters would've still remained as concepts. I agree with most of the points you said but Stan lee isn't such a man. He also was one of the founders for Marvel Comics. It's Just that people are exposing him and he was just Being fine with it
@@ShoshyDeolLonewolf03 Wrong, Jack Kirby would develop them on his own without stan lee, stan lee actually changed a lot of kirby ideas and took credit for them
The Artists are responsible I always say Comics are the artist's medium You can have a great dialogue In comics but it is nothing without Visuals and the illustration On the other hand Great Visuals without a dialogue Still can tell you a story Since the cave paintings 40000 years ago that's how people communicate Like Music, Art is universal language
I met Jack Kirby in the 70s when I was a kid... wish I had kept the autographed litho he signed for me....and Jack Kirby looked like a Jack Kirby drawing.
Jack Kirby Created Fantasic Four, Thor and Spiderman in the 50s Search for Challengers of the Unknown The Fly and Tales of The Unexpected #16 He Created Comics with Joe Simon before Stan Lee came to the scene
@@finrod885 You are totally wrong. Spider-Man was Kirby's idea. Jack Kirby even stated this in an interview... "I created Spider-Man. We decided to give it to Steve Ditko. I drew the first Spider-Man cover. I created the character. I created the costume. I created all those books, but I couldn’t do them all. We decided to give the book to Steve Ditko who was the right man for the job. He did a wonderful job on that."
@@legendary3952 You are wrong. That's like saying Walt Disney didn't do shit, it was just Ub Iwerks just because he animated him. Jack Kirby isn't the best at being the sole creator of characters and "New Gods" at DC showed that.
it makes me ill whenever I see one of the umpteen Stan Lee cameos, when I remember his refusal to share any publishing money with Kirby. Pure corporate thievery. You want an evil sociopathic business man, look no further than Stan Lee. All Lee did was write down the awful dialogue with those ridiculous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Remember, the story came first (Kirby), then the pencilling (Kirby), then the inking (usually Kirby), and then fill in campy dialogue. I'd love to see someone with any talent re-dialogue those books. Anything to get Lee's stench off of Kirby's brilliant work.
This true for almost all art. Marvel comics was a regular job for the artist. To get the artwork out to the public, you need investors and promoters, and distributors. These people want a make a huge profit from their time and money. I met Jack Kirby with Don Heck. Black Sabbath wrote a song about the business. It's title: The Writ. From the Sabotage album.
Artists, mainly on the fields of illustrations, are almost constantly ripped off. In graphic novels this is specially the case. So many illustrators bringing ideas to life with lines and colors and not getting credit for their vision and effort. Sure...Jack Kirby is getting the credit he much deserves but as mentioned in the video he didn't have been getting such credit over the yeas. I'd say he got a 3rd of Stan's credit and that sucks because without a talented artist you get no comics. It's a disgrace really, artists of all fields are constantly getting the worst end of any deal but in the illustration field...its a whole other level.
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Long Live The King.
Started collecting comics 2 yrs ago, and all I buy now is Kirby covers... They are incredible!!!!!!
At last someone giving Kirby the credit he deserves, he was the main creator behind these characters.
As Neil Gaiman aptly points out: Jack Kirby was ahead of his time. Big budget superhero flicks? Jack predicted that. Comics not only sold in bookstores but treated as serious literature? Jack predicted that. The invasive nature of technology in our lives, the Mother Box called a cell phone in everyone's hand, virtual reality? Jack predicted it all. And he wasn't just the oracle of what was to come; he was the shaper. All the popular media he influenced, whether consumers know his name or not, are part of our modern mythology; they're a part of how we view the world; and it’s a shame he didn't live long enough to see it all happen. So the next time you go see the latest superhero blockbuster, pick up an action figure, play a video game, browse through the graphic novel section of a bookstore or library, or just sit down and read a comic book, think about the man without whom a lot of that stuff wouldn't even exist today. And then say: Hail to the KING, baby!
Hail to the King!
Jack Kirby was one of the greatest and most influential people of all time! Without him, we wouldn't have the Fantastic Four, X-Men, Captain America, Incredible Hulk, The Avengers, New Gods, Darkseid. His creations live on forever. Jack Kirby was the greatest man who ever lived. His art is so astounding and imaginative, ingenious that people are inspired by his art. My favorite comic book artist! Long Live the King!
Thank you Jack Kirby for creating our mythology
I love when they use the word Creator, and not just artist. He created the stories, developed the characters and realized universes. Jack Kirby is the King of comics.
Kirby was such a creative mind and he shaped our modern mythology as we know it, he needs to be a household name just like Stan Lee.
Long live the king.
Stan Lee is famous because the Media Exposed him as everyone thought he is, Jack Kirby is famous because he's the best among all Comicbook legends
Good tribute and yeah credit will eventually shine. Just a shame some have to die like Kirby/Finger before getting recognition
@@birthmoviesdeath That one is hard for me, as there's a lot of evidence that Kane barely did anything (compared to Kirby and Lee where the split is more nebulous). Quite frankly, even saying "Batman created by Bill Finger with Bob Kane" would be being generous imo.
Put it to you this way if you open a comic would you rather read Stans writing with blank pages or would you rather look at Jacks art with empty story bubbles. As much as Stan wants to take credit it was mostly Kirby who came up with these characters. Im sure Stan had some input in a few like Spidey , and the X Men but Hulk , Thor , and Cap was Kirby. Look at the characters that each one created after they broke up. Stan ..."crickets"...
Kirby...New Gods , Darkseid , Forever People , Mister Miracle , Big Barda , Steppenwolf, Granny Goodness ,Black Racer , Apokolips , New Genesis , The Anti Life Equation, Mother Boxes, The Demon , Kamandi etc he list goes on and on....that right there shows you who was really coming up with fucking characters and not just saying they were.
Stan Lee wrote Mille The Model before Kirby came along
@@AliFareedMC 😂😂😂😂
@@AliFareedMC Stan Lee didnt start writing that book until 1950's Kirby and Simon already had Captain America in 1941.
jack kirby needs some love.
He has a lot of love from true Marvel fans.
@@Gamer-lq4wl caps True
The comics Jack Kirby created wasn't just him 'doing a job' they were an absolute labor of love and I think he knew that. He wrote not just for the readers of his day, but people like me who would be born long after he passed. As someone born after his time, I still have a deep appreciation for his art. I'll never meet Jack and he'll never meet me but there's a connection still all these years later between reader and artist when I read his comic books. Stanley and Jack's works will continue for many many decades to follow.
So this guy built a part of my life. R.I.P
Thank you Jack kirby.
Jack was such a fucking boss - he created some of the best characters ever in Marvel, then went to DC for 4 years, created their best villian ever (Darkseid) and on the way influenced the best Marvel villian ever (Thanos). The man is beyond a legend.
Even as a kid Stan felt fake to me. The moment I saw my first Kirby interview I knew he was the one.
Stan was just the popular face..he had the talk. I think Kirby was the quiet one and that was his downfall
@@robd1329 are you serious? He did so many interviews, defending himself stan lee even cut him off in one of the interviews
Kirby was a genius!
@@birthmoviesdeath Great channel - subbed!
All of those Marvel Comics should have began with ''Jack Kirby Presents."
2003 turtles have a really amazing tribute serie dedicated to him , i never really thought about him, guy literally created marvel and DC??? in-sane
Hell yeah even Stan lee admits that jack Kirby is equal as him. Best duo.
lol equal? are you stupid? most of the work are from jack kirby, stan lee is just a slap in a face who stole all
"I did a version of Thor for D.C. in the fifties before I did him for Marvel. I created Thor at Marvel because I was forever enamored of legends, which is why I knew about Balder, Heimdall, and Odin. I tried to update Thor and put him into a superhero costume, but he was still Thor." - Jack Kirby Interview¹
¹James Van Hise, “Superheroes: The Language That Jack Kirby Wrote,” Comics Feature #34, March-April 1985.)
People must realize that you gotta be humble to be a good artist.
Turns out being humble doesn't get you deals or enable you to lead a successful company.
Add that to the saying 'history is written by the victorious' and it's clear why Stan got the spot light much more than Jack.
Still, Stan is replaceable but not Jack.
Much like many illustrators, Jack got thrown in some aley and the talentless silvertongued businessman gets all the credit for his work.
Not saying Stan wasn't talented, I love him but Jack is comics and Stan happened to be in the right place at the right time around the right people
@@PunxTV123 Go back t the swamp Shrek
@@jcl5611 stfu
Its kind of odd and misterious why Kirby was pushed to the shadow being a creative power house like he was(maybe marvel was afraid he’d leave if he got the recognition,like later happened with the Image guys), I dont know, but The first image i remember seen printed about Captain America on a enciclopedia volume speaking about comics . The image stuck on mi mind forever, because it is very dramatic,full of action and movement and the lines applied to build it are a sinthesis of real life perception of form of the human anatomy. Once you have seen Kirby art you cant get him away as a guideline to achieve that poping action to your own drawings.
Jack Kirby sounds just like Al Pacino.
Stan Lee is beyond wreckage. He is suffering to give credit to Kirby,Ditko which they truly deserves(even a lot more than him).
"Cap America, Wolverine, Fantastic Four, Iron Man" where he is not creator, writer, penciller or anything, except publisher.. but give credit more to himself, "we" "we" "we did it". He is reason Kirby(The King), Ditko, and many left marvel. I really wish these legends living long and creating many more loved characters, but deep down I sense a pinch of relief that they are resting in peace, without seeing the atrocities done by Stan Lee, in the recent years, After they passed-on, he stole the whole credit, calling himself the sole creator of marvel, now saying "I" "I" "I did it".
To the people who defend him by saying, 'he is a marketing/businessman type of guy." But you have to understand the difference btw "Selling the comic Vs. Selling away his co-workers/friends". He did the latter.
Lee has co created many comics with these creators. Plus, he's also the writer for most of the popular characters ever. If stan wasn't there, these characters would've still remained as concepts. I agree with most of the points you said but Stan lee isn't such a man. He also was one of the founders for Marvel Comics. It's Just that people are exposing him and he was just Being fine with it
Without Stan Lee there's no marvel without Jack kirby there won't be all the marvel characters we see today
@@ShoshyDeolLonewolf03 Wrong, Jack Kirby would develop them on his own without stan lee, stan lee actually changed a lot of kirby ideas and took credit for them
@@AliFareedMC ooh i see. Anyway now people only knows him as the true genius, where as Kirby remains anonymous
@@ShoshyDeolLonewolf03 the were not written in stan Lee's style, he just added a few wise crack balloons, that's about it.
Steve Ditko and Bill Everett (co-creator of daredevil and kingpin) are responsible too
John Romita co-created the Kingpin. Buy, hey, Bill was responsible for the Submariner.
The Artists are responsible
I always say
Comics are the artist's medium
You can have a great dialogue
In comics but it is nothing without Visuals and the illustration
On the other hand
Great Visuals without a dialogue
Still can tell you a story
Since the cave paintings 40000 years ago that's how people communicate
Like Music, Art is universal language
I met Jack Kirby in the 70s when I was a kid... wish I had kept the autographed litho he signed for me....and Jack Kirby looked like a Jack Kirby drawing.
We need Sandman TV show but like done high quality!
It only took the death of Stan Lee for the Real creator to be revealed.........
Nope
I knew Jack Kirby many years before Stan "The Scum" Lee died.
It's Bill Finger all over again... Well, no, Jack still gets his name recognized by a few, specifically the real fans, not the MCU fans.
@@Palmieres Stan Lee is worse than Bob Kane, stan screwed many people bob kane screwed bill finger
Im sad that Jack Kirbys didint live to see Marvel movies.
Thank you Jack Kirby for giving us Darkseid and the New Gods which Zack Snyder is adapting currently for cinema.
Jack Kirby Created Fantasic Four, Thor and Spiderman in the 50s
Search for Challengers of the Unknown
The Fly and Tales of The Unexpected #16
He Created Comics with Joe Simon before Stan Lee came to the scene
@@finrod885 kirbymuseum.org/blogs/dynamics/2011/11/22/the-never-ending-who-created-spider-man-debate/
@@finrod885 You are totally wrong.
Spider-Man was Kirby's idea.
Jack Kirby even stated this in an interview...
"I created Spider-Man. We decided to give it to Steve Ditko. I drew the first Spider-Man cover. I created the character. I created the costume. I created all those books, but I couldn’t do them all. We decided to give the book to Steve Ditko who was the right man for the job. He did a wonderful job on that."
Monster Paradise Stan didn’t do shit
As always
He was just there to rip them all off
A lie, as that’s the only thing he’s good for
Filthy man
@@legendary3952 You are wrong. That's like saying Walt Disney didn't do shit, it was just Ub Iwerks just because he animated him. Jack Kirby isn't the best at being the sole creator of characters and "New Gods" at DC showed that.
jc L rot if hell stan devil lee
it makes me ill whenever I see one of the umpteen Stan Lee cameos, when I remember his refusal to share any publishing money with Kirby. Pure corporate thievery. You want an evil sociopathic business man, look no further than Stan Lee. All Lee did was write down the awful dialogue with those ridiculous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Remember, the story came first (Kirby), then the pencilling (Kirby), then the inking (usually Kirby), and then fill in campy dialogue. I'd love to see someone with any talent re-dialogue those books. Anything to get Lee's stench off of Kirby's brilliant work.
This true for almost all art. Marvel comics was a regular job for the artist. To get the artwork out to the public, you need investors and promoters, and distributors.
These people want a make a huge profit from their time and money.
I met Jack Kirby with Don Heck.
Black Sabbath wrote a song about the business. It's title: The Writ. From the Sabotage album.
Long live the King.
If it wasn't for Jack Kirby there wouldn't be a Marvel Universe!!!!!!!
2:16-2:27 is how every creator should feel... These are your babies.
What's more important ,Amazing Artwork or Cacamamie dialog balloons?
Man that's sad as hell my man most of DC should have a funeral for my man , but he's with God now I hope
Why are there 11 comments
are marvel fans too depressed to watch this
IRON MANSPAM12 yea rip iron man
Stories that Kirby did without Stan Lee all got cancelled.
Artists, mainly on the fields of illustrations, are almost constantly ripped off.
In graphic novels this is specially the case.
So many illustrators bringing ideas to life with lines and colors and not getting credit for their vision and effort.
Sure...Jack Kirby is getting the credit he much deserves but as mentioned in the video he didn't have been getting such credit over the yeas.
I'd say he got a 3rd of Stan's credit and that sucks because without a talented artist you get no comics.
It's a disgrace really, artists of all fields are constantly getting the worst end of any deal but in the illustration field...its a whole other level.
1:40
There's also a theory. Mars Ravelo who is a Filipino cartoonist was the one. MARs raVELo. Isn't obvious!? Marvel was clearly from Mars' name.
Me 1963 neighborhood "drug" store(yes,thats what we called them) Marvel comics on spindel racks,I read thousands. I bet issue #1 of most.
Hollywood has turned superheroes into action movies
Yeah I actually agree alot with this. There not even about saving people anymore what a shame
Is this hosted by SNL's The Church Lady?
Batman created by bill finger with bob kane!
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No its stan lee "some idiot"
You have no idea about comics.
Research more idiot.
lsd & mushrooms created Marvel bottom line