Jack Kirby invented or co-invented most of the characters you see in those movies about Marvel superheroes. He thought them up as he drew, and he created so many of them because he was a visionary. Visions didn't just visit him, they invaded. He couldn't drive a car because he was too preoccupied. His wife drove him or else one of the kids did it, one of the shaggy young baby boomers who used to follow him around back in those far-off days when Nixon was president and the Beatles had gone solo. “You can drive my car anytime,” Kirby would say to a beaming young man, and it was a mark of affection and trust.
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