Tag: Jack Kirby

I've long been awaiting Jeff Trexler's analysis of the Marvel/Kirby Settlement, and he starts a two-part piece with Should the Kirby Family Have Settled? In case it hasn't been explicitly stated enough, it was Trexler's exploration of the potentially ground breaking work for hire aspects of the case that Kirby family attorney Marc Toberoff seems to have used to get the Supreme Court to even look at the case. To allow it to go to decision would have established an important precedent—but it was extremely risky for the Kirby heirs:

This photo was posted on Marvel.com in a piece commemorating Veteran's Day. Obviously there is no one in comics more suitable for this kind of salute than Kirby who would tell his war stories to all. And

JACK KIRBY ON MARVEL.COM

OH YEAH.

It looks like the results of last month's settlement in the Jacky Kirby lawsuit against Marvel has yielded swift results: Kirby and Stan Lee...

Friday's announcement of a settlement between Jack Kirby's heirs and Marvel seems like good news—but is it? And what does it mean? I'm told Jeff Trexler, whose identification of the "instance and expense" aspect of the lawsuit may have helped get that into the petition to the Supremes, is writing his summary for TCJ.com, so while we all eagerly await that, here's a little of the known knowns and known unknowns: First off, Mark Evanier, a Kirby family confidant, a witness at various Kirby-related trials and filier of an amicus curiae brief is certainly in a position to know more of the Kirby position and this is all he had to say on the matter:

The Kirby vs Marvel battle is not quite over yet. According to Dominic Patten the Supreme Court will actually discuss whether to hear the...

Playboy has a long interview with Stan Lee here (link NSFW but not really as much as you'd think), Normally I'd call this an "autumnal" interview, but under the circumstances, it's more...the lion in winter. Lee, perhaps realizing this is one of the few spots he has to dig in a little, sometimes avoids the kind of jokes and spin he uses in other interviews. And while his memory is always spotty (and any Lee interview includes may spots where he takes the question and moves the answer to more familiar territory) his grasp on things is still pretty sharp all things considered.

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Golden age artist Al Plastino has died after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 91. Plastino was best known as a Superman...

By Jeffrey O. Gustafson As Rand Hoppe, founder and Director of the Jack Kirby Museum told me tonight, "Jack Kirby hated the Lower East Side."...

A pop-up museum for comics legend Jack Kirby located on the Lower East Side -- where he was born— opens today. The effort was funded via Kickstarter and is located at 178 Delancey Street.

. Today would have been the 96th birthday of Jack "King" Kirby. 26 years ago, on the occasion of Jack's 70th birthday, I was in the basement of the Hotel San Diego with about 600 of my fellow professionals as we waited in a dark room for Jack to appear.

Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...