When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.
Jack KirbyAny kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.
Jack KirbyOf course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
Jack KirbyI write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.
Jack KirbySuperman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that respect, I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn't going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly.
Jack KirbyThere was one time they knocked me out and laid me in front of my mother's door. And in order for my mother not to be shocked they readjusted my clothes and they saw that nothing was rumpled and I looked very comfortable next to the apartment door, so when my mother would open the door it wouldn't be that much of a shock.
Jack Kirby