{"id":2134,"date":"2013-08-28T12:06:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T16:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/?page_id=2134"},"modified":"2013-08-28T12:07:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T16:07:28","slug":"a-handwritten-note-signed-by-jack-kirby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/a-handwritten-note-signed-by-jack-kirby\/","title":{"rendered":"A handwritten note signed by Jack Kirby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Captain America<\/strong><\/p>\n

Formulated in 1939 by myself and Joe Simon – Created in Joe’s apartment + submitted to “Atlas”<\/p>\n

Published in 1941<\/p>\n

Fantastic Four – Hulk – Spiderman – Thor – Sgt. Fury<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I arrived at Marvel in 1959, it was closing shop that very afternoon, according to what was related to me by “Stan Lee”<\/p>\n

The comic book dept. was another victim of the Dr. wertham negative cycle + definitely was following in the wake of E.C. Comics, “The Gaines Publishing House.”<\/p>\n

In order to keep working I suggested to “Stan Lee” that to initiate a new line of Super heroes he submit my ideas to Martin Goodman the publisher of Marvel<\/p>\n

The line that I came up with was<\/p>\n

Fantastic Four<\/strong> a team of Super Heroes<\/p>\n

The Hulk<\/strong> which was a spin off of a single story I did for “Marvel”<\/p>\n

Spiderman<\/strong> grew from a different script called “The Silver Spider” which was written by Joe Simon’s brother-in-law – Jack Oleck – who is now deceased.<\/p>\n

Joe was out of the field at that time + I utilized the “Silver Spider” script to create a single new character. This was given for development to Steve Ditko after I drew the first cover with the original costume.<\/p>\n

Thor quickly followed + was fleshed out with the character of the original legend.<\/p>\n

Sgt. Fury<\/strong>, a mixture of the “Dirty Dozen”. James Bond, + my own war experiences became another successful book.<\/p>\n

I created many costumes for new “Super Heroes” such as Iron Man, Ant Man + created all related characters such as “Silver Surfer”, Galactus – The Inhumans + many more which are included in the enclosed list.<\/p>\n

To insure sales I also did the writing which I was not credited for, as “Stan Lee” wrote the credits for all of the books which I did not correct because of his relationship\u00a0with the publisher Martin Goodman.<\/p>\n

This was later changed to “Produced by “Stan Lee + Jack Kirby” in some of the books.<\/p>\n

Although I was not allowed to write the “Balloon” dialogue, the stories, the characters + the additional planning for the script’s progress was strictly due to my own foresight + literary workmanship.<\/p>\n

There were no scripts. I created the characters + wrote the stories in my own home + merely brought them into the office each month.<\/p>\n

FF published 1961
\nThe Hulk 1962
\nThor 1962
\nSpider Man 1962
\nSgt. Fury 1963<\/p>\n

– Jack Kirby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Captain America Formulated in 1939 by myself and Joe Simon – Created in Joe’s apartment + submitted to “Atlas” Published in 1941 Fantastic Four – Hulk – Spiderman – Thor – Sgt. Fury When I arrived at Marvel in 1959, it was closing shop that very afternoon, according to what was related to me by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2134\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}