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I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.
Jack Kirby
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Jack Kirby
Age: 76 †
Born: 1917
Born: August 28
Died: 1994
Died: February 6
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Jacob Kurtzberg
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Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.
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