Editing Jack Kirby (section)

==Early life (1917–1935)==
Jack Kirby was born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28, 1917, at 147 [[Essex Street]] on the [[Lower East Side]] of [[Manhattan]] in [[New York City]]; he grew up there.<ref name=Kirbymuseum>{{cite web | url = http://kirbymuseum.org/biography | first1= Mark | last1= Evanier | author-link = Mark Evanier | first2=Steve| last2=Sherman | title = Jack Kirby Biography | publisher = Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center | access-date = February 24, 2012 | archive-date= September 17, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130917070658/http://kirbymuseum.org/biography/ | url-status=live|display-authors=etal| date= March 20, 2008 }}</ref> His parents, Rose (Bernstein) and Benjamin Kurtzberg,<ref name=Kirbymuseum/> were [[History of the Jews in Austria|Austrian-Jewish]] immigrants, and his father earned a living as a [[Clothing|garment]] factory worker.<ref name=hamilsue>Hamilton, Sue L. ''Jack Kirby''. ABDO Group, 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-59928-298-5}}, p. 4</ref> Kirby grew up on the Lower East Side. Among his close friends was [[Leon Klinghoffer]], who grew up in the same neighborhood, and who in 1985 was shot, killed and thrown overboard from the cruise ship ''[[MS Achille Lauro|Achille Lauro]]'' by [[Palestinian Liberation Front]] [[Achille Lauro hijacking|hijackers]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kirbymuseum.org/blogs/dynamics/2010/08/31/jack-kirby-interview-part-iii/|title=Jack Kirby Interview – Part III|author=Rob Stiebel|publisher=Jack Kirby Museum|access-date=May 30, 2023|archive-date=December 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201220046/https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/dynamics/2010/08/31/jack-kirby-interview-part-iii/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{YouTube|u5xRfwvGXlw|Jack Kirby Interview (Part III)}}</ref> In his youth, Kirby desired to escape his neighborhood. He liked to draw, and sought out places he could learn more about art.{{sfn|Jones|2004|pages=195–196}} Essentially self-taught,{{sfn|Evanier|2008|page=34}} Kirby cited among his influences the [[comic strip]] artists [[Milton Caniff]], [[Hal Foster]], and [[Alex Raymond]], as well as such editorial cartoonists as [[Charles Henry Sykes|C. H. Sykes]], [[Jay Norwood Darling|"Ding" Darling]], and [[Rollin Kirby]].{{sfn|Evanier|2008|page=34}} He was rejected by [[the Educational Alliance]] because he drew "too fast with charcoal", according to Kirby. He later found an outlet for his skills by drawing cartoons for the newspaper of the Boys Brotherhood Republic, a "miniature city" on East 3rd Street where street kids ran their own government.{{sfn|Jones|2004|page=196}}

At age 14, Kirby enrolled at the [[Pratt Institute]] in [[Brooklyn]], leaving after a week. "I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done".<ref>{{cite journal|title= 'I've Never Done Anything Halfheartedly'|journal= [[The Comics Journal]]|publisher = [[Fantagraphics Books]]|number= 134|date = February 1990|location= Seattle, Washington}} Reprinted in George 2002, p. 22</ref>