"Kirby and Lee would revitalize the superhero genre in the 1960s, creating a universe of characters from the Fantastic Four on down. It was Lee and Kirby, along with a few other artists like Steve Ditko, who created the Marvel Universe. But they made an awkward pair. Lee was a smooth salesman, while Kirby was an introverted artist. A 1965 article in the New York Herald described Lee as an 'ultra-Madison Avenue, rangy lookalike of Rex Harrison,' but said of Kirby that 'if you stood next to him on the subway you would peg him from the assistant foreman of a girdle factory.' In cultural style, Lee was management, and Kirby was at best lower-middle-class."
Jeet Heer at the New Republic discusses Jack Kirby, upon the artist's centenary.
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