Jack Kirby Net Worth
Famous American comic book artist and writer and Jack Kirby is known as a great innovator and co-creator of many famous characters. As of 1994, Jack Kirby’s net worth was estimated to be over 20 million dollars. Let’s take a closer look on life of this extraordinary man and how did he gained such a fortune.
Jack Kirby was born as Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28th, 1917, in New York City to Austrian Jewish immigrants. He died at the age of 76 of heart failure in February 1994, in Thousand Oaks, California. Drawing was his passion since childhood. In the 1930s, Jacob started drawing in a comics industry, using different pen names, such as Jack Curtiss and eventually settling on Jack Kirby.
In 1940, he created famous superhero Captain America together with writer and editor Joe Simon, working for Timely Comics, which was a forerunner of the Marvel Comics. In next years, the two together created many characters. In the 1960s, Jack Kirby co-created with Stan Lee number of famous characters, such as the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, and the X-Men.
Jack married his wife, Rosalind Goldstein, in 1942 and they were together until his death. The couple had four children. In Kirby’s honor were named the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame and the Jack Kirby Awards. His collaboration with Marvel Comics made him forever famous and makes his work known even to current young generation.
