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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
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New York
Jacob Kurtzberg
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A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.
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I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.
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I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
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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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Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
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I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.
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There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could.
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