LC control no. | n 77020008 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Kirby, Jack |
Variant(s) | Kurtzberg, Jacob Kirby, Jack, 1917-1994 |
Other standard no. | 0000000116918041 500022980 100267886 Q311607 |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 1917-08-25 |
Death date | 1994-02-06 |
Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
Place of death | Thousand Oaks (Ventura County, Calif.) |
Field of activity | Comic books, strips, etc. Graphic novels Motion pictures--Production and direction |
Affiliation | Marvel Comics Group |
Profession or occupation | Authors Motion picture art directors Artists Editors Comics artist Comics writer |
Special note | Not same as: Kirby, Jack R. B. (nb2017011505), comics writer from Great Britain. URIs added to this record for the PCC URI MARC Pilot. Please do not remove or edit the URIs. |
Found in | Lee, S. The Silver Surfer, 1978 (a.e.) t.p. (Jack Kirby) Tales to astonish, 2004: CIP t.p (Jack Kirby) galley (Jack Kirby, b. Jacob Kurtzberg on Aug. 25, 1917) Internet movie database, Jan. 21, 2004 (Jack Kirby; writer, production designer, comic book artist; b. Aug. 28, 1917, New York, N.Y.; d. Feb. 6, 1994, Thousand Oaks, Calif.; birth name, Jacob Kurtzberg; sometimes credited as Jack 'King' Kirby) McCloud, S. Understanding comics, ©1993: page 74 (Most mainstream comics in America employ storytelling techniques first introduced by Jack Kirby) Wikipedia, 30 July 2022 (Jack Kirby; born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28, 1917 in New York City, died February 6, 1994 in Thousand Oaks, Calif., aged 76; an American comic book artist, writer and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators; in 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics; during the 1940s, Kirby regularly teamed with Simon, creating numerous characters for that company and for National Comics Publications, later to become DC Comics; Kirby was involved in Timely's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, which in the next decade became Marvel; there, during the 1960s, Kirby created many of the company's major characters, including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Thor, the Hulk, Iron Man and Black Panther) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kirby> OCLC database, 30 July 2022 (access points: Kirby, Jack, Kirby, Jack, 1917-1994; usage: Jack Kirby) |
Associated language | eng |