Table of Contents

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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
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