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How a Lower East Side Jew conquered the multiverse

Summary by The Forward
All this time, comic book artist Jack Kirby was drawing himself. In a street scene memory from the 1980s, we see the clothesline eruv of the old Lower East Side where he was born and raised: street toughs, peddlers, a cascade of garbage whooshing through a tenement window and an iceman in a horse cart. It could well be Yancy Street, where Ben Grimm, aka Thing, was initiated into a gang, before he took his fateful space flight and was reconstitut…

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The Forward broke the news in on Wednesday, April 30, 2025.
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