Jack Kirby Layout Sketch

 Small Layout sketch for the Jack Kirby Comic Bio

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0(interviewer)*: ...And what about your childhood Jake? What was that like?

1: Well, one of the biggest mistakes I could make back then was being born short.

2: Why would that be a mistake?

3: Being born on the east side of New York, the big kids basically owned the streets. being

short was a mistake because every other boy was bigger than you.

4: The big kids had fun beating up smaller guys like me.

5: I made up for by being mean as possible. Gave them a taste of their own medicine

6: For me, the feeling was very stimulating.

7: Did you really fancy yourself as a scrapper?

8: Yeah, I would even wait for bigger guys behind a brick wall, and beat the crap out of

them.

9:I ran like hell afterwards. Back then, refining my meaniness helped my ego. Everyone

needed a little ego.

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10: I felt like I deserved an ego, which lead me going to the gym.

11: I mostly did boxing, and became real good at it. Now only that wrestling too.

12: Later on I joined the army, and became the best of my class in close-combat.

13: Out of the class of 27, along with another student, I graduated from judo class.

14: Now, at the time of your early teens Superman came out right?

15: Yeah, everyone knew Superman. It was a big hit!

16: Did you know how the comic became famous?

17: From what I remember, two massager boys from Ohio submitted the first 10-page story.

But the magazine wasn't solely about comics, but it had to be shorted to 6 pages. The first

few days, their magazine sold out.

18: The polishers had no idea what sold out their latest issues. So after submitting two

more Superman in their next magazines, and found out it was Superman!

19: That comic, and the comics that came after Superman, we're the mental backbone for guys

who couldn't make it- or felt it. It inspired strength in ego.

20: So that means it encouraged to be involved in comic books

21: Yeah it did. It galvanized me!