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What was Jack Kirby's Net Worth?

Jack Kirby was an American comic book artist who had a net worth of $5 million. That's the same as around $10 million in today's dollars after adjusting for inflation.

In 1943, Kirby was drafted into the US Army during World War II. Assigned to Company F of the 11th Infantry Regiment, he landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy in August of 1944, over two months after D-Day. Due to his background in comics, Kirby served as a scout who went into towns to draw reconnaissance maps and pictures. He was honorably discharged as a private first class in July of 1945.

Considered one of the most influential creators in the history of comic books, Jack Kirby helped create such iconic characters as Captain America, Iron Man, the Hulk, Black Panther, and Thor. Later in his career, he ventured into television animation and independent comics.

In 1936, Kirby began his career in comics when he started doing comic strips and single-panel cartoons for the Lincoln Newspaper Syndicate. He did that until 1939, and then became an inbetweener for the animation company Fleischer Studios. As the American comic book industry expanded, Kirby began writing and drawing for the comic book packager Eisner & Iger. He continued drawing various comics for different publishers over the subsequent years, using a myriad of pseudonyms. Kirby had a particularly successful partnership with cartoonist and editor Joe Simon, with whom he created the patriotic superhero Captain America for Timely Comics in 1940. The pair created many other characters for that company, which would later become Marvel Comics, and also for National Comics Publications, which would later become DC Comics.

Jack Kirby was born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28, 1917 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. His parents were Rose and Benjamin, both Austrian Jewish immigrants. Kirby loved to draw as a child, and learned how to illustrate cartoon figures by tracing various characters from comic strips. When he was just 14 years old, he enrolled at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, but left after a week.

Career Beginnings in Comics

After the war, Kirby reunited with Joe Simon to work at Harvey Comics. He also created work for such publishers as Hillman Periodicals and Crestwood Publications. At the latter, Kirby and Simon created the popular genre of romance comics in 1947, inaugurated by the series "Young Romance." In the 1950s, the duo established their own comics company, Mainline Publications, but it was short-lived. Kirby also created for Atlas Comics, which became Marvel Comics in the 1960s. For Atlas, he drew across all genres, but became particularly renowned for his supernatural and science-fiction characters.

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Disclaimer: All net worth figures are estimates based on public data.