“The romance genre was all around us. There was love story pulps, and there was love story sections in the newspapers. There was love stories in the movies. Wherever you went there was love stories! That’s how we got our new material, and it suddenly struck me that that’s what we haven’t done. We haven’t done any romance stories!”

—  Jack Kirby

1990, Gary Groth interview

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American comic book artist, writer and editor 1917–1994

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