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Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.
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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