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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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  • maverick [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Idk it was there all summer and fall, no one ever complained about it or anything. It doesn't smell or look gross, it's clearly just compost. I doubt it's illegal and he's probably just being an asshole but I don't really have much of a choice. Guess when spring comes I'm gonna have to figure out how to remove around 30 cubic feet of decaying plant matter.

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      4 years ago

      I don’t really have much of a choice

      Really ? can he like evict you or something if you tell him to go fuck himself, the compost pile stays ? at least before your - potentially indefinite - lease is up ? I don't know much about landlord laws in the US except that you get shafted left and right all the time.

      Also, how does he know it's even there ? does he come to see the house ? that's creepy as fuck. I haven't even met any of my landlords. I know their names because it's on the paperwork but that's it.