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Jack Kirby

Comic book artist Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg), co-creator (with Joe Simon) of Captain America in the 1940s and (with Stan Lee) of the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk in the 1960s, died on this date in 1994.

A self-taught artist from the Lower East Side (his parents were immigrants from Austria), Kirby worked for a while in the Fleischer studios on Popeye cartoons, as a salaried artist at Fox Feature Syndicates, and then at Timely Comics (the predecessor to Marvel Comics), where in 1940 he launched Captain America.

The patriotic hero was so popular in an America at the brink of war that the second issue sold close to a million copies. Kirby and Simon also created a romance series, Young Romance and Young Love, which combined to sell more than two million copies of each issue and launched several other spin-offs and imitators.

Kirby’s most enduring impact, however, was with Marvel during the “Silver Age of Comics,” 1958-70, where he also lent his creative and supervisory hand to Thor, Iron Man, the Silver Surfer, Galactus, Magneto, and numerous other muscular, fantastic, psychologically complex characters.

He was one of three inaugural inductees into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1987.

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  • quartz242 [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I worked a job that said in the handbook you could clock in 15 min early. After a year of doing that 4 days a week they changed the policy to avoid overtime pay. They would literally be in violation state required employees on shift just to avoid OT.

    Fuck your boss

    • VHS [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I had a job that we were basically expected to be there 10 minutes before our shifts started, but the time clock (on a windows pc) was off when we got there and would take nearly ten minutes to boot up. The manager got frustrated that I kept submitting forms for timecard correction. I'm like, pay me for my ten minutes or don't expect me to show up for it. My immediate supervisor would work 10+ minutes off the clock every morning and through her "break" too, so the company was robbing her for ~$30 USD a week.