WWII and the Creator of Captain America

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Jack Kirby was one of the principle minds and artists behind some of the best known comic characters in history, including, among many others, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, X-Men, and Captain America. Few people realise, though, that like his most patriotic creation, Kirby spent a good portion of WW2 fighting the Nazis as well, though never managing to duplicate Captain America’s feat of punching Hitler in the face.

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Now that you've learned all about Captain America's origin story watch this fascinating video about The “White Mouse” Who Became Australia’s Most Decorated WWII Servicewoman:

[calebleland]

Jack "King" Kirby is a legend! Thanks for the video. You left out one of my favorite stories about him, where several members of the American Nazi party showed up at the studio to start a fight, and Kirby actually went outside to face them, and they got scared and immediately left. But there was some stuff here I did not know, which is always cool.

[jaspr]

Growing up, reading comic books would have gotten me beat up so I read them in secret. As such, I was shocked when my father who denounced all comic books had a small stash of them that he collected during his time in the Pacific. When I asked about them he told me that war was the one place where seeing comic books would make grown men cry since it was very much a taste of home. He was very fond of Captain America and I guess his love of the character rubbed off on me.

[Siberius-]

That's one huge thing people don't realise about WW2.. most of the interactions countries had with Germany didn't result in gun fire. In fact that usually never occurs to them to just murder someone in cold blood just because they're on the other side.. instead they would call each other names and throw a rock and laugh at them and then move on. It's really fascinating but not surprising at all since they were just drafted humans and that's human nature under such circumstances. Then there's the amount of soldiers who never aimed to murder people. Same thing can be seen as far back as muskets, they even did tests to find this out at the time. So, I'm glad this was mentioned here to educate some people on that.

I recommend people check out "Lindybeige" on youtube is a great channel.

[CChile-pnze]

TIFO,

What a way to bring such a personal and deep view to WW2. You did in such a way that brought homage to the way Marvel, through Kirby and others, were able to get to the human part of their characters.

Good job

[escott]

I have been a huge comic book fan all my life and I have a few books on drawing by Jack Kirby. I knew he was a WWII soldier but I did not know all those interesting stories about his exploits. Thank you for sharing that with us. The gentleman is a true American hero!

[jackybluj]

Simon I think this was my favorite episode! I never knew any of this. It was so interesting from the perspective of both the war and Jack Kirby! Please keep making videos like this!

[theallseeingmaster]

Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko and Neil Adams are the Platinum standard comic book artists of my youth

[cookieDaXapper]

Thank you for this video, Jack KING Kirby needs his work in a museum, and probably a statue somewhere. THE most influential illustrator. PERIOD. PEACE.

[AlexTalArt]

wow, my respect for kirby just shot up by 1000% and as an illustrator and a fan of comic books, my respect for kirby was already pretty damn high!

[KamiInValhalla]

Hahaha Kirby: Don't you talk about my mother!

[Diilicious]

Grown men calling each others mums names in heated battle, that actually made me laugh out loud and filled in the blanks for me on why people do that online too in similar games.

[WillowChord]

Simon Whistler
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Runs with the Minutemen. Mostly just builds settlements and runs a lucrative purified water business with many level three water purifiers. prefers the Guass Rifle and travels with Curie.

[tammysilverwolf]

Holy crap this was an interesting video... Thanks so much, TiFO. This was really awesome as your videos usually are.

[protonjones]

CO: Hey I know you... You're that Jack Kirby guy, the one that draws comics. O_o
Jack: That's me! ^-^
CO: Good... You've been promoted to scout. We need map boys. :)
Jack: ಠ_ಠ

[kipper]

Any videos with Simon presenting gets a thumbs up from me :)

[PatrickRamseymusic]

Great video! His centennial celebration is coming up on 28 August 2017!

[Alexanderiii]

I wonder what Jack Kirby would think if he was knew that Captain America was a Hydra agent now?

[TS_Mind_Swept]

I think this just goes to show you that it's not fighting others, it's entertaining them that wins wars

[vinaytm]

Great video again and Congratulations on 1 Million subscribers