Jacob Kirby was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium, especially when working at Marvel Comics in the 1960s and 1970s as both an artist and as a de facto co-writer with Stan Lee.
In 1979, he was commissioned to draw a comic book adaptation of the Walt Disney motion picture The Black Hole.
In 2017, he was dubbed a Disney Legend in the field of publishing.
His Name is featured as one of 22's mentors in Disney/Pixar's Soul (2020).
Disney movies and TV shows based on characters he created included:
- The Avengers (based on the Avengers)
- The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
- Avengers Assemble
- Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers
- Thor: The Dark World (based on Thor Odinson)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (based on Captain America)
- Ant-Man (based on Ant-Man)
- Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. (based on the Hulk)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (based on S.H.I.E.L.D.)
- Agent Carter (based on Peggy Carter)
- Black Panther (based on Black Panther)
- Dark Phoenix (based on Jean Grey)
- Eternals (based on the Eternals)
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps (based on the Fantastic Four)
- Inhumans (based on the Inhumans)
- The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (based on Bucky Barnes)
- Loki (based on Loki Laufeyson)
- WandaVision (based on Scarlet Witch)
- Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (based on Devil Dinosaur)
- M.O.D.O.K. (based on M.O.D.O.K.)
- I Am Groot (based on Groot)
- Agatha All Along (based on Agatha Harkness)
- X-Men '97 (based on the X-Men)
- X-Men
- Eyes of Wakanda (based on Wakanda)
- Scarlet Witch
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