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Jack Kirby (b. August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) is one of the great superhero comic book artists of the 20th century.

Since the "Golden Age" of comics in the 1940s, Kirby has drawn and co-created some of the greatest superhero characters and concepts through history, many of whom are still popular today. Among his creations in the 40s are The Newsboy Legion, The Boy Commandoes, and Captain America with Joe Simon. In the 50s he created The Challengers of the Unknown. In the 60s he created the Fantastic Four with Stan Lee, and was among the first to co-create and draw many of today's most popular Marvel Superheroes like The Mighty Thor and the X-Men. In the 70s, he created the New Gods which included the New Genesis/Apokilips so-called "Fourth World" Mythology and one of DC Comics' scariest villains, Darkseid. Also, Big Barda, Mister Miracle, Dan "Terrible" Tupin of the Metropolis S.C.U. and Orion are all part of this mythos and are all Mr. Kirby's creations. All of these characters have appeared in many different DC titles over the years. Even Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth, OMAC, The One Man Army Corps, and Etrigan the Demon, possibly the most far-fetched characters Kirby created, have resurfaced over the years in title after title.

Stan Lee (creator of Marvel Comics) often referred to him as Jack "The King" Kirby, and the appellation has stuck with him over the years.

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