His overpowering, dynamic art style set the visual template for the genre as early as 1941, when he and partner Joe Simon launched Captain America by showing the hero slugging Hitler on the cover of the first issue. Jack Kirby was the most influential storyteller in the history of American superhero comics. Today as the pop culture world Kirby helped to build celebrates his centenary, it's worth looking at why it took so long for the man Stan Lee called "King" to get his crown. And even though Disney has acknowledged his co-creation of the Marvel pantheon, Kirby’s fame has not travelled as far outside the circles of comics fandom as his creations. Kirby's journey from respected artisan to revered creative genius was hard-won and not completed in his lifetime.
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