He understood the powerful impact that stories, any stories, could have.
His mother and other elders told stories that enraptured him as a boy.
The stories in the newspaper comics and in the movie theaters did the same.
He learned that science fiction could serve the same function in the present as mythology had in the past.
Jack Kirby was there at the beginning of the comic book as it is known in America.
He helped shape what was initially considered disposable entertainment into the enduring art form we know today.
They took comic books seriously, and it showed.
And that was only the beginning.
Youll be seeing Black Panther and The Inhumans on the silver screen soon enough.
Theres more, but you get the idea.
Before detailed credits in comics became the norm, many young readers would still recognize Kirbys stories.
The art pulled them in like no other.
Readers recognized the eyes, the hands, the staging, the action.
No one did comics at the level Kirby did.
At DC, an entirely new mythology sprang from his pencil.
The villainous Steppenwolf will face off against the Justice League in their big screen debut this November.
Darkseid and The New Gods probably wont be far behind.
But decades before dystopian futures were a sub-genre of their own in Hollywood, Jack producedOMACandKamandifor DC Comics.
He explored themes of ancient aliens back at Marvel inThe Eternals.
Jack Kirby was a storyteller above all else.
Science-fiction, action-adventure, mythology, romance…he put himself into all of those stories.
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