"I recall during the winter or early spring he asked me what I would think of a black superhero in the comics. Of course he was very much for it, as we all were at the time," Neal Kirby says. "My father was a very social liberal person. He would have been the Bernie Sanders of his day. He very much
"You had a character like Black Panther that not only has all the physical powers and a super suit, but he is certainly the intellectualequal to Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic) of the Fantastic Four," Neal Kirby says.
"I remember at one time he received a letter or something happened [over Black Panther] and he was a little concerned," Neal Kirby says. "It kind of went back to his day when he and Joe Simon created Capitan America and they were receiving death treats from the American Nazi party in New York. And,
Kirby's children, Neal and three daughters, took Marvel to court over copyright claims on certain characters. The case was later settled. Neal Kirby says the family has a much better relationship with Marvel these days and they have been invited to all the Marvel film premieres.
"He would have just been thrilled regardless whether he saw his name up there or not," Neal Kirby says of his father's pride for his creations being turned into huge blockbusters. "To their credit, Marvel has been very good about [properly crediting Jack Kirby]. We have had a very good relationship
