Biografia

The realistic manner in which he depicted fight scenes

Bold inflation in lettering

Use of Splash panels (Large panels, sometimes taking up entire pages, often depicting big events)

Always started in the middle of a story, then created the beginning and end afterwards.

His art was always known to have lots of impact, power and energy.

Jack Kirby was famous for being as tough as his characters. For instance, when a gangster was shaking down Kirby's boss, Will Eisner, to take his towel service, Kirby charged in to throw the gangster out. When Kirby created Captain America with Joe Simon, Nazi sympathizers once gathered in the lobby of the office building where the pair worked to threaten them. However, when upon hearing that Kirby was heading down with his sleeves rolled up to physically confront them himself, they fled before he arrived.

The relationship between The Thing and Mr Fantastic was modelled on his own with Stan Lee.

A dispute with Stan Lee forced Kirby to leave Marvel after several years of writing and illustrating for them. Kirby then returned to Marvel's chief rival D.C. Comics (Simon & Kirby left Timely Comics, in the 1940s to jump to rival National/DC, and Kirby later worked for them in the 1950s), where he introduced his "Fourth World" series which included The New Gods, The Forever People, Mister Miracle as well as one of his greatest creations, the villain Darkseid. Although Kirby's direct involvement with his creations proved short-lived, he was later involved in action figure designs for these characters in the Super Powers toy line by the Kenner Toy Company in the 1980s. As DC Comics was proud to point out, this led to Kirby finally getting direct royalties for his comic book characters for the first time in his career.

Created Groot of ''The Guardians of The Galaxy'' fame.

Had a major dispute with Marvel Comics to get back his original artwork (which consisted of well over 9000 pages over his ten year tenure). Marvel asked him to sign a release indemnifying the company for any missing work. Kirby refused. After a massive support campaign within the industry, Marvel eventually returned the remaining art, without conditions; but, much of it was missing, from his peak period.

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly

If you look at my characters, you will find me. No matter what kind of character you create or assume, a little of yourself must remain there.

My stories are very sincere, my stories are people's stories, and there's elements of my stories that are very very real, and it doesn't matter what the subject is.

I haven't got the trappings of a circus, but there in my mind is a very active and bright and colorful place, that is as good as any circus that i have ever seen. And i live with that, and i enjoy it immensely.

[when drawing] I could see the entire picture in my mind and it was very very real.