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Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
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 City
New York
Jacob Kurtzberg
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