You should read *Kirby: King of Comics* by Mark Evanier if you want to learn more about Jack Kirby's side of the Kirby/Lee thing--it's a fantastic history of Kirby's part in the Marvel (and DC) mythos, complete with LOTS of examples of his work. It's equal parts biography and book as art object.
The saddest part to me is that Roz Kirby survived her husband by a year and was unable to get more than one royalties paycheck out of Marvel. Kirby never got paid for the continuing use of his work, only the time he put in to pencil. Stan Lee (and those surrounding him), however, did live long enough to benefit from the push to pay royalties that was spearheaded by the Kirbys and other Golden Age comic artists.
Oh man, a while back I read a book called "The Secret History of Star Wars", which does a bunch of untangle George Lucas's lies and talks about how the Star Wars movies actually got made. The whole Stan Lee thing sounds worse...
You should read *Kirby: King of Comics* by Mark Evanier if you want to learn more about Jack Kirby's side of the Kirby/Lee thing--it's a fantastic history of Kirby's part in the Marvel (and DC) mythos, complete with LOTS of examples of his work. It's equal parts biography and book as art object.
The saddest part to me is that Roz Kirby survived her husband by a year and was unable to get more than one royalties paycheck out of Marvel. Kirby never got paid for the continuing use of his work, only the time he put in to pencil. Stan Lee (and those surrounding him), however, did live long enough to benefit from the push to pay royalties that was spearheaded by the Kirbys and other Golden Age comic artists.
Oh man, a while back I read a book called "The Secret History of Star Wars", which does a bunch of untangle George Lucas's lies and talks about how the Star Wars movies actually got made. The whole Stan Lee thing sounds worse...