History Creator / JackKirby

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* AuthorAppeal: AncientAstronauts, the ReluctantWarrior, ugly looking heroes, complicated machines (with tiny spherical dots laid on top) and kid gangs are the clearest examples.

** The One-Above-All, the {{omnipotent}} but mostly unseen [[ThePowerOfCreation creator]] {{God}} of the entire Marvel Omniverse, is widely believed to be an avatar of Kirby.

* MixAndMatch:
** Kirby was fond of reimagining occult and magical concepts with technological and science-fiction flourishes. Dr. Doom's costume simultaneously has a medieval and modern motif (a Renaissance-hood, cape, gold clasps for both, a green surcoat, and a medieval belt covering over absolutely modern robotic armor) and according to Kirby was intended to make him look like the Grim Reaper.
** Magneto likewise has a pulp fiction leotard and cape number but has a helmet with a Dark Ages-style horn, that makes him look like a feudal baron straight from the feudal era (this was Pre-Claremont, where Magneto was still an obnoxious asshole).
** The Norse Gods are simultaneously SufficientlyAdvancedAlien and HighFantasy beings, Wakanda is likewise a traditional African community and a modern science-fiction utopia, and the Fourth World of Apokolips and New Genesis takes this to the zenith, with everything have a techno-occult motif.

Kirby is also well known (alongside ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' creators [[Creator/JerrySiegelAndJoeShuster Siegel and Shuster]]) as the poster boy for the creators' rights movements of TheSeventies and TheEighties. An embodiment of how talented artists were treated by the companies which became multibillion dollar industries because of their creations, while leaving the original creators with pittance on the basis of dubious "work for hire" contract policies by which artists were paid for no more than the "page rate" for the comics that they drew. Consequently, despite their characters becoming iconic, Kirby and the other artists of his generation made absolutely no royalties of any kind and were denied any chance to share in the successes of their creations. Also, he was the center of the art controversy during the mid 1980s when Marvel's image was tarnished by their shameful claim that he and the other artists had no rights to their own original artwork. Public pressure eventually forced Marvel into coughing up a pension for his widow, and the Kirby estate attempted to regain Kirby's share of the copyright on his Marvel Comics characters. This effort eventually ended in a settlement with Marvel’s new parent company, Disney, in the fall of 2014. The parties reached the settlement the day before the first hearing was set to take place at the Supreme Court. The monetary terms of the settlement [[UndisclosedFunds have never be publicly disclosed]] but it’s widely assumed that the estate were the “winners” due to the last minute nature of the settlement and the fact that litigation was initiated by Marvel when it was still its own independent company. In all likelihood, Disney forked over a substantial amount of money to not risk a potential ruling that could have sent the entire entertainment industry spiraling into chaos. His children were also to extract proper credit on adaptations from Disney, with his name having been displayed every one his work even remotely inspired since ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' came out in 2017.

Kirby is also well known (alongside [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Siegel and Shuster]]) as the poster boy for the creators' rights movements of TheSeventies and TheEighties. An embodiment of how talented artists were treated by the companies which became multibillion dollar industries because of their creations, while leaving the original creators with pittance on the basis of dubious "work for hire" contract policies by which artists were paid for no more than the "page rate" for the comics that they drew. Consequently, despite their characters becoming iconic, Kirby and the other artists of his generation made absolutely no royalties of any kind and were denied any chance to share in the successes of their creations. Also, he was the center of the art controversy during the mid 1980s when Marvel's image was tarnished by their shameful claim that he and the other artists had no rights to their own original artwork. Public pressure eventually forced Marvel into coughing up a pension for his widow, and the Kirby estate attempted to regain Kirby's share of the copyright on his Marvel Comics characters. This effort eventually ended in a settlement with Marvel’s new parent company, Disney, in the fall of 2014. The parties reached the settlement the day before the first hearing was set to take place at the Supreme Court. The monetary terms of the settlement [[UndisclosedFunds have never be publicly disclosed]] but it’s widely assumed that the estate were the “winners” due to the last minute nature of the settlement and the fact that litigation was initiated by Marvel when it was still its own independent company. In all likelihood, Disney forked over a substantial amount of money to not risk a potential ruling that could have sent the entire entertainment industry spiraling into chaos. His children were also to extract proper credit on adaptations from Disney, with his name having been displayed every one his work even remotely inspired since ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' came out in 2017.

Kirby is also well known (alongside [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Siegel and Shuster]]) as the poster boy for the creators' rights movements of TheSeventies and TheEighties. An embodiment of how talented artists were treated by the companies which became multibillion dollar industries because of their creations, while leaving the original creators with pittance on the basis of dubious "work for hire" contract policies by which artists were paid for no more than the "page rate" for the comics that they drew. Consequently, despite their characters becoming iconic, Kirby and the other artists of his generation made absolutely no royalties of any kind and were denied any chance to share in the successes of their creations. Also, he was the center of the art controversy during the mid 1980s when Marvel's image was tarnished by their shameful claim that he and the other artists had no rights to their own original artwork. Public pressure eventually forced Marvel into coughing up a pension for his widow, and the Kirby estate attempted to regain Kirby's share of the copyright on his Marvel Comics characters. This effort eventually ended in a settlement with Marvel’s new parent company, Disney, in the fall of 2014. The parties reached the settlement the day before the first hearing was set to take place at the Supreme Court. The monetary terms of the settlement [[UndisclosedFunds have never be publicly disclosed]] but it’s widely assumed that the estate were the “winners” due to the last minute nature of the settlement and the fact that litigation was initiated by Marvel when it was still its own independent company. In all likelihood, Disney forked over a substantial amount of money to not risk a potential ruling that could have sent the entire entertainment industry spiraling into chaos. His children were also to extract proper credit on adaptations from Disney, with his name having been displayed every one his work even remotely inspired since ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' came out in 2017.

Kirby is also well known (alongside [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Siegel and Shuster]]) as the poster boy for the creators' rights movements of TheSeventies and TheEighties. An embodiment of how talented artists were treated by the companies which became multibillion dollar industries because of their creations, while leaving the original creators with pittance on the basis of dubious "work for hire" contract policies by which artists were paid for no more than the "page rate" for the comics that they drew. Consequently, despite their characters becoming iconic, Kirby and the other artists of his generation made absolutely no royalties of any kind and were denied any chance to share in the successes of their creations. Also, he was the center of the art controversy during the mid 1980s when Marvel's image was tarnished by their shameful claim that he and the other artists had no rights to their own original artwork. Public pressure eventually forced Marvel into coughing up a pension for his widow, and the Kirby estate attempted to regain Kirby's share of the copyright on his Marvel Comics characters, an effort which ended with a 2014 settlement. The settlement was reached the business day before the Supreme Court was set to hear the case and the details have never [[UndisclosedFunds been disclosed]].