Introduction		3
Chapter 0	Kirby’s Improbable Career	20
Chapter 1	Kirby’s Narrative Art	36
Chapter 2	Kirby, Stan Lee, and the Creation of Marvel Comics	78
Chapter 3	How Kirby Changed the Superhero	108
Chapter 4	Kirby’s Technological Sublime	144
Chapter 5	The Great Bust-Out: Kirby’s Fourth World	172
Chapter 6	Kirby at Apogee	206
Chapter 7	“Unexpected Constants”: Kirby’s Eternals versus the Marvel Universe	228
Appendix	Kirby and Kirbyana in Print and in Fandom	253
Notes		262
Works Cited		272
Index		284