{"id":2194,"date":"2013-09-12T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2013-09-17T18:47:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T22:47:36","slug":"key-1960s-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/effect\/2013\/09\/12\/key-1960s-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Key 1960s Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This timeline was first published in <a href=\"http:\/\/twomorrows.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=1065\">TwoMorrows Publishing&#8217;s Winter 2013 The Jack Kirby Collector 60<\/a>. Many thanks to John Morrow for allowing us to publish it here. Suggestions or corrections are welcome, please use the comments section below. &#8211; \u00a0Rand<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There were many key moments at Marvel in the\u00a01960s, but the first one that really sent shockwaves\u00a0through fandom (and Marvel) was the 1966 departure\u00a0of Steve Ditko from the company. Don\u2019t you suppose\u00a0that got Stan to thinking, \u201cGee, what if I lose Jack\u00a0Kirby, too?\u201d Shortly thereafter, in an odd twist, Stan\u00a0began occasionally letting Jack script a few stories here\u00a0and there in the latter 1960s. Was that an effort on\u00a0Stan\u2019s part to keep him happy at the company?<\/p>\n<p>To clarify the chronology of events in my mind, I\u00a0decided to prepare this timeline of key moments that\u00a0affected Marvel, and Lee and Kirby\u2019s relationship in the\u00a01960s. Of invaluable help were Rand Hoppe, past\u00a0research by Mark Evanier and Pat Ford online, as well\u00a0as online excerpts from Sean Howe\u2019s <em>Marvel Comics: The\u00a0Untold Story<\/em> (I plan to read the full book soon).<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a complete list of every important date in\u00a0Marvel\u2019s 1960s history, but hopefully hits most of the\u00a0key ones. I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve left some out, and more will\u00a0come to light in the future, so please send us additions\u00a0and corrections. I plan to update it, and continue\u00a0the timeline into the 1970s and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>My rule of thumb: Cover dates were generally two-three\u00a0months later than the date the book appeared on\u00a0the stands, and six months ahead of when Kirby was\u00a0working on the stories, so I\u2019ve assembled the timeline\u00a0according to those adjusted dates\u2014not the cover\u00a0dates\u2014to set it more closely to real-time.<\/p>\n<h2>1961<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This year:<\/strong> Marvel sells 18,700,000 copies of its comics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>February 25:<\/strong> Final <em>Sky Masters<\/em> daily strip sees print.<\/li>\n<li><strong>April-May:<\/strong> <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> #1 conceived by Lee and Kirby,\u00a0and drawn by Kirby.<\/li>\n<li><strong>August 8 (November cover date):<\/strong> <em>FF<\/em> #1 goes on sale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>1962<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This year:<\/strong> Marvel sells 19,740,000\u00a0copies of its comics. 1158 Kirby pages\u00a0are published (most in a single year).<\/li>\n<li><strong>June (August cover date):<\/strong> <em>Amazing\u00a0Fantasy<\/em> #15 published, featuring\u00a0Ditko\u2019s Spider-Man, after Kirby\u2019s original\u00a0version was rejected.<\/li>\n<li><strong>November (January 1963 cover date):<\/strong>\u00a0<em>FF<\/em> #10 features the first appearance of\u00a0Lee and Kirby in a comic. On the letters\u00a0page, Stan tells readers to drop the formal\u00a0\u201cDear Editor\u201d salutation in letters,\u00a0and to instead address them to \u201cDear\u00a0Stan and Jack.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>1963<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This year:<\/strong> Marvel sells 22,530,000\u00a0copies of its comics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>1964<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This year:<\/strong> Marvel sells 27,709,000 copies of its comics,\u00a0with an expectation of 32,000,000 for 1965, showing a\u00a0nearly 50% increase in 3 years. 102 Kirby covers are published\u00a0(most in a single year).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Also this year:<\/strong> Martin Goodman becomes worried about\u00a0Stan\u2019s popularity and the control he has over the Marvel\u00a0line, and pressures him to have other writers handle some\u00a0of the stories. Stan develops \u201cwriter\u2019s test\u201d using four Kirby\u00a0pages from <em>FF Annual<\/em> #2, with the balloons whited-out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>May (July\/Summer cover dates):<\/strong> <em>FF Annual<\/em> #2, <em>FF<\/em> #28, and\u00a0<em>Avengers<\/em> #6 are published. Original art for these issues\u00a0are the earliest pages to show Kirby\u2019s handwriting in the\u00a0margin notes, but all these issues also feature Chic Stone\u00a0as the inker for the first time, so it\u2019s unclear if Kirby included\u00a0notes prior to these, and other inkers simply erased\u00a0Jack\u2019s notes when they erased the pencil art after inking.<\/li>\n<li><strong>September:<\/strong> <em>Addams Family<\/em> and <em>Munsters<\/em> television series\u00a0debut (influences Kirby\u2019s creation of the Inhumans later).<\/li>\n<li><strong>October (December cover date):<\/strong> Stan hypes Wallace Wood on the cover of <em>Daredevil<\/em> #5.<\/li>\n<li><strong>December (February cover date):<\/strong> <em>FF<\/em> #35 published, with first\u00a0ad for MMMS fan club, using Kirby art to sell $1 memberships\u00a0and, later, promotional products. Flo Steinberg has\u00a0said, \u201cNobody expected the fan-club to be so big. There\u00a0were thousands of letters and dollar bills flying around all\u00a0over the place. We were throwing them at each other.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>1965<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Early this year:<\/strong> Marvel\u2019s reacts to news of an impending\u00a0<em>Batman<\/em> TV series, and of new publishers jumping on the\u00a0super-hero bandwagon due to their success, as Martin\u00a0Goodman tells Stan to add more books, to keep Marvel\u00a0from getting crowded off newsstands. Soon thereafter, Lee\u00a0and Kirby develop the Inhumans and Black Panther (originally\u00a0named Coal Tiger)\u2014both of which feature a character\u00a0visually similar to Batman\u2014but DC controlled Marvel\u2019s\u00a0distribution, and wouldn\u2019t allow the new books to be added\u00a0to Marvel\u2019s output (they were eventually included in the <em>FF<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>January (March cover date):<\/strong> <em>Tales of Suspense<\/em> #63 published, the first of\u00a0<\/span>several reworks of 1940s S&amp;K Cap stories (with no mention of Simon).<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>This year and next:<\/strong> Kirby assigned to do layouts for Hulk series in <em>Tales\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em>to Astonish<\/em>, Captain America in <em>Tales of Suspense<\/em>, Nick Fury in <em>Strange\u00a0Tales,<\/em> for Don Heck on <em>Avengers<\/em>, and for Werner Roth on <em>X-Men<\/em>. He\u00a0came to view this as doing the majority of the storytelling, for only a\u00a0fraction of the pay.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>March (May cover date):<\/strong> Charlton\u2019s <em>Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds<\/em> #46\u00a0<\/span>published, featuring Son of Vulcan (influenced by Marvel\u2019s <em>Thor<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>April (June cover date):<\/strong> Charlton begins reprinting Captain Atom adventures\u00a0<\/span>in <em>Strange Suspense Stories<\/em> #75, and renames the title <em>Captain\u00a0Atom<\/em> with #78 in October (December 1965 cover date), the first of its\u00a0Action Hero line.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">June (August cover\u00a0<\/span>date):<\/strong> Spider-Man T-shirt\u00a0first offered for sale in\u00a0<em>Spider-Man<\/em> #27.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>Summer:<\/strong> <em>FF Annual<\/em> #3\u00a0<\/span>published, with Stan and\u00a0Jack appearing in the\u00a0story together at Reed\u00a0and Sue\u2019s wedding.<\/li>\n<li><strong>July (September cover date):<\/strong>\u00a0Stan hypes Wallace Wood&#8217;s inking of &#8220;Don&#8217;s drawings&#8221; on the cover of\u00a0<em>Avengers<\/em> #20.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">August (October cover\u00a0<\/span>date):<\/strong> <em>Daredevil<\/em> #10 is\u00a0published, wherein Wallace Wood fought for and\u00a0received the writing\u00a0credit from Stan Lee.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">September (November\u00a0<\/span>cover date):<\/strong> Jack introduces\u00a0the Inhumans in\u00a0<em>FF<\/em> #44.<\/li>\n<li><strong>September (November\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>cover date):<\/strong> Tower\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Comics\u2019 <em>T.H.U.N.D.E.R.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>Agents<\/em> #1 (featuring art\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">by Wallace Wood), and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Archie\u2019s <em>Mighty Crusaders<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">#1, are published. Wallace\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Wood had just left Marvel\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">over creative differences\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">with Stan Lee. Kirby and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Wood were contemporaries\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">who were known\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">to speak to each other\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">fairly regularly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">October (December\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>cover date):<\/strong> <em>Modeling\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>with Millie<\/em> #44 is published,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">featuring Roy\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Thomas\u2019 first Marvel\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">writing work.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>November (January\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>1966 cover date):<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>Daredevil<\/em> #12 published,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">with Kirby assigned to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">do layouts for John\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Romita, and to design\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">the villain The Plunderer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>December 1965:<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Interview with Nat Freedland for <em>New York\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>Herald Tribune<\/em> article\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">takes place, where Stan\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">is giving art direction to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Sol Brodsky about a page<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0from <em>FF<\/em> #50, page 8,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">which was apparently in production at that time.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>1966<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This year:<\/strong> Joe Simon sues Marvel in state court, and then in 1967 in\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">federal court, claiming that Captain America was his creation and that he\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">was entitled to the renewal on the copyright registration. Carl Burgos\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">does likewise over his creation The Human Torch.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>January 9:<\/strong> <em>NY Herald Tribune<\/em> article appears, which greatly offends\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Kirby, and possibly Ditko. In it, Stan also says,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">\u201cI don\u2019t plot <em>Spider-Man<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">any more. Steve Ditko, the artist, has been doing the stories. I guess I\u2019ll\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">leave him alone until sales start to slip. Since Spidey got so popular,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Ditko thinks he\u2019s the genius of the world. We were arguing so much over\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">plot lines I told him to start making up his own stories. He won\u2019t let anybody\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">else ink his drawings either. He just drops off the finished pages\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">with notes at the margins and I fill in the dialogue. I never know what\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">he\u2019ll come up with next, but it\u2019s interesting to work that way.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>FF<\/em> #48\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">(March cover date) goes on sale the same month, with first appearance\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">of Galactus and the Silver Surfer (a character Stan has said he knew\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">nothing about until Kirby turned in the pages with him on them).<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>January 12:<\/strong> <em>Batman<\/em> TV series debuts as a mid-season replacement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>January to February:<\/strong> After months of not directly communicating with\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Stan, Ditko turns in <em>Spider-man<\/em> #38 and resigns. He asks Kirby to join\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">him on a walkout to pressure Marvel into better terms, and Kirby initially\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">agrees, but backs out due to concerns over supporting his family.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">(This comes <a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/dynamics\/2012\/02\/11\/goodman-vs-ditko-kirby-by-robert-beerbohm\/\">per Robert Beerbohm\u2019s conversations with Jack<\/a><\/span>)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>February (April cover date):<\/strong> Myron Fass\u2019 <em>Captain Marvel<\/em> #1 is published\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">(the character who splits apart into pieces) and co-opts both the famous\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">1940s character\u2019s name, and the name of Martin Goodman\u2019s company in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">an attempt to cause market confusion. It\u2019s drawn by Carl Burgos, creator\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">of the Human Torch for Goodman in the 1940s.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>April (June cover date):<\/strong> <em>Fantasy Masterpieces<\/em> #3 published, featuring the\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">first of a series of Simon &amp; Kirby 1940s <em>Captain America Comics<\/em> reprints, with\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Joe Simon\u2019s credit line removed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>May (July cover date):<\/strong> <em>Tales to Astonish<\/em> #81 published, featuring Kirby\u2019s\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">documented design for the villain Boomerang. Also, <em>T.H.U.N.D.E.R.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>Agents<\/em> #6 is published by Tower Comics, featuring art by both Wallace\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Wood and Steve Ditko.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>May (July cover date):<\/strong> <em>FF<\/em> #52 published, with the Black Panther\u2019s debut,\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">and includes an announcement that Ditko is leaving Marvel. The real-life\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Black Panther organization wouldn\u2019t officially be formed until October\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">1966, but shortly before this issue went into production, news article\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">were published (as early as January) about a Black Panther logo being\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">used by an organization in Alabama.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>This year:<\/strong> Kirby stops doing most layouts for other artists. This is the\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">point his work begins to reach its 1960s peak, as he has more time to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">devote to his own stories. Also, Kirby draws the first of his Fourth World\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">concept drawings, but doesn\u2019t show them to Marvel.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mid-1966:<\/strong> Lancer paperbacks are released, reprinting Kirby <em>Fantastic Four<\/em>, <em>Thor<\/em>, and <em>Hulk<\/em> stories. (The\u00a0<em>Fantastic Four<\/em> book quotes the 1966 <em>New\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>York Herald-Tribune<\/em> article.) Also, Donruss\u2019 <em>Marvel Super-Heroes<\/em> set of 66\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">trading cards released, using Kirby art (both presumably unpaid).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>June:<\/strong> Stan takes a train trip to Florida on his first-ever vacation, and lets\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Jack script the S.H.I.E.L.D. story in <em>Strange Tales<\/em> #148 (September 1966) after\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">plotting the story together. Stan noted in an interview, \u201cI [did] a little editing\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">later, but it was [Jack\u2019s] story.\u201d Stan also assigned Roy Thomas to script\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">the <em>Tales To Astonish<\/em> #82 (August 1966) Iron Man\/Sub-Mariner fight, but\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Roy gives Jack all the credit for the plot.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Summer:<\/strong> <em>Fantastic Four Special<\/em> #4 is released, featuring the original\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Human Torch battling the FF\u2019s Torch. Carl Burgos\u2019 daughter sees her father\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">destroy all his old Timely Comics, as a reaction to the <em>FF Special<\/em> story,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">and\/or losing his bid to reclaim the copyright on the Human Torch.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>July 12:<\/strong> Goodman convinces Kirby to sign a deposition against Joe Simon\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">in the Captain America copyright case, siding with Marvel, with the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">promise of receiving whatever Simon gets in any settlement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>July:<\/strong> Martin Goodman offers Myron Fass $6000 for the copyright on his\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Captain Marvel; Fass refuses.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>August (October cover date):<\/strong> Joe Simon releases <em>Fighting American<\/em> #1 and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>The Spirit<\/em> #1 at Harvey Comics, featuring reprints and new material. Simon\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">also oversees the first of the Harvey Thriller line of new super-hero comics\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">for Harvey.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>August (October cover date):<\/strong> <em>Thor<\/em> #133 published, which at Jack\u2019s insistence,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">is the first to include the joint credit \u201cA Stan Lee\u2014Jack Kirby\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Production\u201d (in the \u201cTales of Asgard\u201d story) instead of separate credits for\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Stan as \u201cWriter\u201d and Jack as \u201cArtist.\u201d Future <em>Thor<\/em> issues would continue\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">this. This issue also features the debut of a balding, bearded \u201cEgo, the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Living Planet\u201d; perhaps a subtle shot at Stan? <em>FF<\/em> #55 is also published\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">with Marvel t-shirt and poster ads, using Kirby art to sell merchandise\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">(presumably unpaid).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>September 1:<\/strong> <em>Marvel Super-Heroes<\/em> cartoon debuts, with no payment to\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Kirby for reuse of art. Robert Lawrence of Gantray-Lawrence accompanies\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Stan Lee on a wildly popular college lecture circuit tour to promote it. A\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">September <em>Esquire<\/em> article mentions Stan speaking at Princeton, Bard and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">NYU, and that Marvel had sold 50,000 t-shirts and 30,000 sweat-shirts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>September (November cover date):<\/strong> <em>FF<\/em> #56 published, with \u201cProduced by\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Stan Lee and Jack Kirby\u201d credit instead of separate listings for Writer and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Artist.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>October (December cover date):<\/strong> <em>FF<\/em> #57 published, with back cover ad for\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">the Marvel Aurora model kits, featuring Kirby art of Hulk and Captain\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">America (presumably unpaid).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>December (February 1967 cover date):<\/strong> <em>Strange Tales<\/em> #153 published, with\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Kirby\u2019s final layouts for another artist (in this case, Steranko).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>1967<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>February (April cover date):<\/strong> <em>Strange Tales<\/em> #155 is published,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">with Steranko\u2019s first writing credit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>July (September cover date):<\/strong> <em>Thor<\/em> #144 published, without\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">its original Kirby cover, which was rejected by Stan. This\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">issue\u2019s \u201cTales of Asgard\u201d back-up is entitled \u201cThe\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Beginning of the End\u201d. Stan has often said that Kirby was\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">mostly responsible for these stories, as he knew the Norse\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">legends better than Stan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>August (October cover date):<\/strong> <em>FF<\/em> #67 published, with last\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">part of \u201cHim\u201d story, and heavy characterization changes to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Kirby\u2019s characters by Stan. (This was the last issue drawn\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">on large-size art.) Also, the final \u201cTales of Asgard\u201d back-up\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">in Thor #145 is published, titled \u201cThe End,\u201d possibly alluding\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">to discontent on Jack\u2019s part.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>September 9:<\/strong> First of 20 <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> cartoons airs,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">using Lee\/Kirby <em>FF<\/em> issues as the basis for each story (presumably\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">unpaid). Also, <em>America\u2019s Best TV Comics<\/em> is published\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">in conjunction with ABC-TV, with Kirby story reprint\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">(presumably unpaid).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>September (November cover date):<\/strong> Stan includes the note \u201cJack, you\u2019re\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">still the greatest\u201d on a pin-up in <em>FF Special<\/em> #5 pin-up, which was published\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">shortly after the \u201cHim\u201d story in FF #66-67 that upset Jack. Stan\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">apparently tosses Jack a bone by letting him write the 3-page \u201cThis is a\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">plot?\u201d throwaway story in the issue, and had Jack draw a solo Silver\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Surfer\/Quasimodo story as well\u2014perhaps as a peace offering, since Jack\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">wasn\u2019t happy with the way the Surfer was being handled. Inhumans backups \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">also begin in <em>Thor<\/em> #146, likely made from previously created\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Inhumans stories that weren\u2019t published.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>October (December cover date):<\/strong> <em>Marvel Super-Heroes<\/em> #12 is published,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">with the debut of Marvel\u2019s Captain Marvel (Mar-vell). Kirby felt this idea\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">came from an offhand conversation he\u2019d had in the offices, for which he\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">wasn\u2019t credited.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>This year:<\/strong> New ads were printed that announced a \u201cNifty New Membership\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Kit\u201d for the MMMS, including new merchandise for sale with Kirby artwork.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>1968<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Early this year:<\/strong> Kirby begins, unsuccessfully, trying to negotiate better terms<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0with Martin Goodman.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>March-June (May-August cover dates):<\/strong> <em>FF<\/em> #74-77 published, with Jack\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">leading to a climax and jumping-off point on the Silver Surfer storyline,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">possibly preparing to work on his own <em>Silver Surfer<\/em> book.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>April (June cover date):<\/strong> <em>Beware the Creeper<\/em> #1 by Steve Ditko is published\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">by DC Comics.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>May 22:<\/strong> Kirby takes a $2000 loan from Martin Goodman to finance his\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">family\u2019s upcoming move to California, to live in a better climate for his\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">daughter\u2019s asthma. Around this time, Bill Everett also takes a \u201cloan\u201d from\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Goodman, which was an off the record agreement that Everett wouldn\u2019t\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">sue over Sub-Mariner copyrights, so as not to hurt the sale of Marvel to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Perfect Film.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">June (August cover\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>date):<\/strong> <em>Silver Surfer<\/em> #1\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">published the same\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">month as FF #77: John\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Buscema is assigned to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">draw the solo title,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">apparently without\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Jack\u2019s knowledge. Kirby\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">feels his character has\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">been taken away from\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">him.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>July:<\/strong> Sale of Marvel Comics to Perfect Film is finalized.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Perfect Film is \u201cover running the company\u201d by September\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">1968, even though Martin Goodman is retained as publisher.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>August 31:<\/strong> Kirby repays half of the loan from Goodman.<\/li>\n<li><strong>This year:<\/strong> Stan Lee interview is published in <em>Castle of\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>Frankenstein<\/em> #12, wherein Stan says of Jack, \u201cSome artists,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">such as Jack Kirby, need no plot at all. I mean I\u2019ll just say to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Jack, \u2018Let\u2019s let the next villain be Dr. Doom\u2019&#8230; or I may not\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">even say that. He may tell me. And then he goes home and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">does it. He\u2019s so good at plots, I\u2019m sure he\u2019s a thousand\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">times better than I. He just about makes up the plots for\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">these stories. All I do is a little editing&#8230; I may tell him that\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">he\u2019s gone too far in one direction or another. Of course,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">occasionally I\u2019ll give him a plot, but we\u2019re practically both\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">the writers on the things.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>1969<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>January:<\/strong> Kirby family moves from New York to California,\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">further distancing Jack from the Marvel offices.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>This year:<\/strong> Marvelmania fan club established, selling merchandise with\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Kirby artwork on it. However, Kirby was paid to produce new material,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">although he reportedly didn\u2019t receive full payment for it before\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Marvelmania went bankrupt.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>This year:<\/strong> Joe Simon signs a Settlement Agreement with Marvel over\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Captain America for a payment of $3750. Less than $1000 was paid\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">directly to Simon, with the rest secretly being funneled to him through his\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">attorney, per Marvel\u2019s wishes. Marvel does this so they can pay Kirby only\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">the smaller amount that Simon got directly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>March (May cover date):<\/strong> Stan apologizes in his Soapbox that the <em>Inhumans<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">title he said was coming out, isn\u2019t.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>July-September (September-November cover date):<\/strong> <em>Thor<\/em> #168-170 published,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">with altered Galactus origin story and other editorial changes. Issue\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">#169, released in August, has an inordinate amount of unused pages, suggesting\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">almost an entire issue was rejected by Stan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;\"><strong>This year:<\/strong> Kirby withholds full-page splashes from <em>Thor<\/em>, replacing them\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">with supposedly lesser pages, presumably at wife Roz\u2019s urging (\u201cThey\u2019re\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">too good for them&#8230;\u201d).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>November (January 1970 cover date):<\/strong> Kirby withholds original design of\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Agatha Harkness for <em>FF<\/em> #94, as too good for them, as well.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>December:<\/strong> Jack goes to New York to try to negotiate a new deal with\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Marvel\/Perfect Film, unsuccessfully. He agrees to write and draw two full-length\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>Inhumans<\/em> issues, and to draw the first issue of a new <em>Ka-Zar<\/em> book,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">and goes home and completes them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>Late 1969-early 1970:<\/strong> Kirby meets with Carmine Infantino to show <em>New\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>Gods<\/em> presentation pieces, and discuss the possibility of coming to DC\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Comics.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>1970<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This year:<\/strong> Kirby\u2019s Hulk and Spider-Man posters for Marvelmania are\u00a0replaced with versions by Herb Trimpe and John Romita, respectively, so all\u00a0the Marvelmania materials won\u2019t be dependent on Kirby\u2019s signature style.<\/li>\n<li><strong>January:<\/strong> Kirby receives an \u201conerous\u201d contract from Perfect Film to continue\u00a0working at Marvel, telling him \u201ctake it or leave it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Late January:<\/strong> Kirby is told to split his two <em>Inhumans<\/em> and one <em>Ka-Zar<\/em> story\u00a0into 10-pagers, which are eventually used in <em>Amazing Adventures<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Astonishing Tales<\/em> split-books.<\/li>\n<li><strong>February:<\/strong> Kirby draws <em>Silver Surfer<\/em> #18, in an attempt to save the book\u00a0from cancellation with a new direction. Kirby also draws the \u201cJanus\u201d story\u00a0intended for <em>FF<\/em> #102, but Stan rejects the entire story\u2014it was eventually\u00a0published in <em>FF<\/em> #108, after Jack had moved to DC Comics. Also this month,\u00a0<em>Chamber of Darkness<\/em> #4 is published, with \u201cThe Monster\u201d scripted by\u00a0Kirby. It originally features Kirby and Lee in cameos, but Stan makes major\u00a0editorial changes that require extensive redrawing by Kirby.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Early March:<\/strong> Kirby draws the published version of <em>FF<\/em> #102, his final story\u00a0for Marvel. After mailing in the pages, he phones Stan and resigns.<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 12:<\/strong> Don and Maggie Thompson publish an unprecedented \u201cExtra\u201d\u00a0edition of their fanzine <em>Newfangles<\/em> announcing Kirby is leaving Marvel.<\/li>\n<li><strong>April (June cover date):<\/strong> <em>Chamber of Darkness<\/em> #5 published, with the story\u00a0\u201cAnd Fear Shall Follow\u201d scripted by Kirby.<\/li>\n<li><strong>June (August cover date):<\/strong> <em>Amazing Adventures<\/em> #1 is published from Jack\u2019s\u00a0split apart solo books, with Kirby drawing and scripting The Inhumans, and\u00a0featuring Black Bolt out of character with a thought balloon for one panel.\u00a0Also, <em>Astonishing Tales<\/em> #1 is published from Kirby\u2019s split apart solo book,\u00a0featuring Ka-Zar, with script by Stan Lee and art by Kirby. It also features a\u00a0second Dr. Doom solo story, by Wallace Wood, returning to Marvel Comics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>July (September cover date):<\/strong> <em>Silver Surfer<\/em> #18 is published, with Inhumans\u00a0guest-starring. With Kirby gone, Marvel cancels the book after this issue.\u00a0Also, <em>FF<\/em> #102 is published, Jack\u2019s last issue.<\/li>\n<li><strong>July (September cover date):<\/strong> <em>Amazing Adventures<\/em> #2 published, with Kirby\u00a0drawing and scripting The Inhumans, includes \u201cStan\u2019s Soapbox\u201d announcing\u00a0Jack\u2019s resignation from Marvel.<\/li>\n<li><strong>August (October cover date):<\/strong> <em>Jimmy Olsen<\/em> #133 published with Kirby\u2019s first\u00a0work for DC Comics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>August (October cover date):<\/strong> <em>Astonishing Tales<\/em> #2 published, featuring Ka-Zar, script by Roy Thomas (other than Iron Man\/Subby battle in <em>Tales To\u00a0Astonish<\/em> #82, this may be the first non-Stan Marvel scripting for Kirby).\u00a0Includes some major non-Kirby redraws on Ka-Zar figures.<\/li>\n<li><strong>September (November cover date):<\/strong> <em>Amazing Adventures<\/em> #3 published, with\u00a0Kirby\u2019s Inhumans.<\/li>\n<li><strong>November (January 1971 cover date):<\/strong> Kirby stories in <em>Amazing Adventures<\/em>\u00a0#4 and <em>Tower of Shadows<\/em> #4 published by Marvel, the same month as\u00a0<em>Jimmy Olsen<\/em> #135 at DC Comics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>December (February 1971 cover date):<\/strong> <em>Forever People<\/em> #1 and <em>New Gods<\/em>\u00a0#1 published at DC Comics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>1971<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>January (March cover date):<\/strong> <em>FF<\/em> #108 published from Jack\u2019s original rejected\u00a0<em>FF<\/em> #102 story, the same month that DC Comics publishes <em>Mister Miracle<\/em>\u00a0#1 and <em>Jimmy Olsen<\/em> #136.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>1972<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>June:<\/strong> After Martin Goodman calls in the rest of his loan, Kirby \u201cunder\u00a0duress\u201d signs a copyright agreement with Marvel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This timeline was first published in TwoMorrows Publishing&#8217;s Winter 2013 The Jack Kirby Collector 60. Many thanks to John Morrow for allowing us to publish it here. 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