found: Lee, S. The Silver Surfer, 1978 (a.e.)t.p. (Jack Kirby)
found: Tales to astonish, 2004:CIP t.p (Jack Kirby) galley (Jack Kirby, b. Jacob Kurtzberg on Aug. 25, 1917)
found: 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)
found: McCloud, S. Understanding comics, ©1993:page 74 (Most mainstream comics in America employ storytelling techniques first introduced by Jack Kirby)
found: 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 found: OCLC database, 30 July 2022(access points: Kirby, Jack, Kirby, Jack, 1917-1994; usage: Jack Kirby)
