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Craig Yoe is the venerable author, designer and comics archeologist behind such works as Dan DeCarlo's Jetta, Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-creator Joe Shuster, and Bob Powell's Terror: The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics...

Attorney Marc Toberoff continues to be a very busy man. In between two different court appearances for different lawsuits surrounding the rights to Superman, he has appeared before a three-judge panel to argue for the overturning of an earlier ruling that Marvel Entertainment owns all of Jack Kirby's creations for the company outright...

With the end of the New York Comic-Con, convention season has once again come to a close, and that means the end of another round of entries in my ongoing sketchbook. Schlepping this thing around the country is definitely one of the most fun things about conventions for me, even if my theme isn't quite as good as Gavin from 4thLetter, who has artists drawing "The Macho Man" Randy Savage

Most Marvel hardcores know the name Kevin Feige, but if you need the super-short bio here it is: Producer of every Marvel-based movie since X-Men. President of Marvel Studios. Big deal. Comic book movies are the hottest trend in Hollywood, pumping unprecedented profits into the companies that supply characters for the next big summer blockbuster...

On the off chance that you missed it, yesterday was Jack Kirby's birthday. The King of Comics would've been 95, and it probably won't surprise anyone to learn that here at ComicsAlliance, we've been thinking a lot about the man and his contributions to the medium this week...

Today is what would have been Jack Kirby's 95th birthday, and our tributes to the creator of such comics as New Gods, Fantastic Four, Avengers and X-Men have dealt explicitly with his fascination with the beyond. David Brothers took a close look at the cosmology of Kirby's Fourth World, and David Wolkin gave a theologic reading to Kirby's more personal visual interpretations of God...

Today is what would have been Jack Kirby's 95th birthday, and our tributes to the creator of such comics as New Gods, Fantastic Four, Avengers and X-Men have dealt explicitly with his preoccupation with the beyond. David Brothers took a close look at the cosmology of Kirby's Fourth World, and David Wolkin gave a theologic reading to Kirby's more personal visual interpretations of God...

Today marks the 95th anniversary of the birth of Jack Kirby, creator of the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and the X-Men. It's a good day to honor the memory of one of comics' most legendary imaginations by checking out and supporting the Jack Kirby Museum, or spending some time reading one of his many brilliant works, several of which -- like Jack Kirby's Fourth World, Kamandi: The Last Boy On Ear

You hear it all the time: "Jack Kirby is the King of Comics." "Jack 'King' Kirby." "Marvel's House of Ideas is The House That Jack Built." Most people, comics critics and the like, usually leave it there. The idea that Jack Kirby is one of the most important people of the comics industry is taken for granted, most times...

Over a lifetime of reading comics, Senior Writer Chris Sims has developed an inexhaustible arsenal of facts and opinions. That's why each and every week, we turn to you, to put his comics culture knowledge to the test as he responds to your reader questions...