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I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.

Jack Kirby

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Jack Kirby
Age: 76 †
Born: 1917
Born: August 28
Died: 1994
Died: February 6
Animator
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Comics Writer
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Penciller
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New York City
New York
Jacob Kurtzberg
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When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.
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I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.
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Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!
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I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.
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I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best.
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Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
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I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.
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I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.
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I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were a challenge - what kind of monster would fascinate people?
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I never duck out of a fight I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.
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Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people because they protect you, but I didn't see them that way as a young man. First of all, the papers would connect them with thee communists - labor unions were communists.
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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.
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