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    <body><![CDATA[The best thing about this book is that it gave me a few more details on the Kirby/Lee war that I've only gotten pieces of before. <br/><br/>As this is a bio on Kirby, it certainly focused on his side more, though impressively, it wasn't an attack on Stan Lee.<br/><br/>Maybe it should have been t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22772760">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[to say that I am 'currently reading' this book is a bit of a misnomer. 'continually reading' is a more appropriate term. <br/>my history with Jack Kirby goes back to my earliest childhood memories in the early '70s. Back then every comic on the stand seemed to be drawn &amp; co-created by Jack Kirby. (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20698753">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The term &quot;genius&quot; gets thrown around way too much, but it's always interesting to read about people that term accurately describes. Jack Kirby is definitely one of those people. The grandfather of the superhero comic, and creator of pretty much every major Marvel character, Jack was nothin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48156375">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;<img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_lDc7gcIupuA/SwK-GHkkxAI/AAAAAAAACsI/o0TrVb0iX2A/3844869806.jpg" class="escapedImg"/>&lt;/a&gt;<br/>(<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://parkablogs.com/content/book-review-kirby-king-of-comics">More pictures at parkablogs.com</a>)<br/><br/>Jack Kirby, King of Comics. It's a prestigious title certainly befitting for someone who created or co-created some of the most popular comic characters like Captain America, The X-Men, Fantastic Four and many ot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78068230">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jack Kirby is truly the king of comics.  His work defines the genre: his stories, layouts, and visual style are the benchmarks for the entire industry.  Along with Stan Lee, Kirby was responsible for building the Marvel juggernaut during the 60's, co-creating such stars as Spiderman, Iron Man, the I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36810958">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For the true comics fan, this a is terse history of the man who almost single-handedly brought motion and dynamic graphic storytelling to the comics medium. Piled on with lavish illustrations -- as you might expect -- Kirby's singular and often-imitated style is shown as he goes from post-WWII grind...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47694887">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I find this biography intensely depressing.  Kirby created a million different characters, stories, and titles for a jillion different comics companies, yet he never enjoyed anything resembling basic financial security for himself and his family.  Not until near the end of his life did he even get h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29230661">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[From the age of 17 to his death in 1994, at the age of 76, artist <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Jack Kirby" title="Jack Kirby">Jack Kirby</a> devoted his life to creating an influential pop-culture iconography for the 20th century. His many accomplishments included creating or co-creating Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, and the romance c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18194874">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is filled with wonderful samples of the man who made super hero comics what they were in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s...and what they continue to be...and what they are on screen in big-time Hollywood movies. It is a crime against humanity's culture that people know who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43443215">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great history of a major major force in the history of comic books. I grew up with plenty of Kirby around me, and having just finished &quot;Kavalier &amp; Clay,&quot; I can see where so much of the inspiration came from. Coffee-table size is perfect for a book about a man whose art was larger than life...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77981421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good details on Jack &quot;King&quot; Kirby, who developed great concepts in superhero comics at the beginning of the &quot;Silver Age&quot; around 1960. Created The Fantistic Four, etc. I was addicted to the Marvel Universe when I was 13 to about when I was 16 or so. I loved Fantastic 4, Thor, Iron...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66957356">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enhanced by rich full-page art reproductions, Kirby: King of Comics is the moving biography of comics' greatest illustrator.  Biographer and protege Mark Evanier reconstructs Kirby's hard scrabble rise to fame and his innumerable failed attempts at fair compensation.  Much like Superman's creators S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30027422">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw this at BEA a couple years ago and knew I would own it some day. And now I do. A great coffee table book that I've read so I guess that says something. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a Marvel comics fan, this was a very interesting story for me. The amount of artwork is wonderful. <br/>Highly recommended to comic fans. <br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The art alone is worth giving this one a look.  Kirby was ahead of his time.  More New Gods are would have been preferable.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating read on one of the masters of the comic art form, I'd be lying if I didn't say that this version of Kirby: King of Comics reads a little light. Kirby's such a fascinating creator and Evanier's biography glosses over whole periods of his career in the space of a few paragraphs. I've rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24588018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent biography of the co-creator of The Fantastic Four, the Hulk and many, many more.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good biography with lots of artwork. The ‘coffee table’ size, while not making for comfortable reading, lets one enjoy the art. Especially the black and white illustrations, reproduced well enough that you can see the brush strokes. <br/>The biography part, while done pretty well, doesn’t h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27830634">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is amazing!!! As somebody who has loved comics his entire life, this is a great insight to the way comics used to be run, and how the creators were generally screwed over. It's also (and more importantly) a peek into the life of one of, if not the, most influential creator of all time. Bef...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27069464">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kirby = God.]]></body>
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