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John Byrne

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Joined: 11 May 2005
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Posted: 20 April 2026 at 3:07pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Plans are afoot to officially dub the intersection of Delancey and Essex streets in lower Manhattan “Jack Kirby Way”, commemorating his contributions to American and especially New York culture.

Fine. Well deserved.

Except this is based on Marvel’s insistence on equating Delancey St with the fictional Yancy St (something in which Mark Gruenwald played no small part), and overlooks the fact that Jacob Kurtzberg was born in Hell’s Kitchen, literally miles uptown from Delancey and Essex.

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Michael Penn
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Joined: 12 April 2006
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Posted: 20 April 2026 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
I had thought he was also born on the Lower East Side, until I saw this post and then I looked up in A Complete History of American Comic Books, by Shirrel Rhoades, that Kirby was: "Born in New York's rough-and-tumble Hell's Kitchen in 1917...."

Hmph.


Edited by Michael Penn on 20 April 2026 at 4:01pm
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