To be blunt, Marvel Comics, and by extension the MCU, would not exist without artist and storyteller Jack Kirby. When he was only 22 years old, he co-created Captain America, and when he was in his mid-40s, he co-created the bulk of the iconic Marvel characters. The Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom, Black Panther, the Avengers, the X-Men , the Hulk, Iron Man, and Thor—all Kirby. This list goes on. Later, for DC Comics, he created its greatest villain, Darkseid . Born in 1917 in New York City, there’s now a movement to get a street in New York City where he grew up named for him, and CBS News New York even did a story about it.

Jack Kirby’s fans have spearheaded a petition to get a section of Essex Street, where Kirby was born and raised, renamed to Jack Kirby Way. This is a part of the nei

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