Marvel Comics. Yet for much of his career, Kirby was just looking for steady work to put food on the table. Today as the pop culture world Kirby helped to build celebrates his centenary, it's worth looking at why it took so long for the man Stan Lee called "King" to get his crown. After the war, Simon and Kirby took comics into new genres like romance, crime, horror, science fiction and adventure. But all that was just an opening act for what he would do in the 1960s at Marvel Comics, working with writer/editor Stan Lee.

Source: Forbes August 28, 2017 12:45 UTC