The Art of Fantastic Four by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee
(Dark Horse Books)
September 23, 2025
ORIGINAL ARTWORK and stories by Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg) and Stan Lee (born Stanley Lieber) — two of the great Jewish comics creators, who launched Fantastic Four in 1961 — are featured in this reprint. It’s widely thought that Kirby put some of his own story into that of The Thing (a.k.a. Ben Grimm). Marvel Comics confirmed Grimm is Jewish in a 2002 story in which The Thing returns to Yancy Street, his old stomping grounds, based on Delancey Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where the character (and Kirby) grew up. Recently, the real-life corner of Delancey and Essex streets was renamed Yancy Street/Jack Kirby Way. Jonathan Rothman
