Incredible Hulk Jack Kirby cameo

Jack Kirby's uncredited cameo appearance as a police sketch artist in episode 31 of The Incredible Hulk TV series (1979).

[@Vortigern99]

Yes, it's a little-known fact that Kirby actually created most of the Marvel characters we known and revere today... Hulk, Iron Man, FF, X-Men, even Spider-Man was (according to Jack) were all created by Kirby, and stolen by Lee who was the publisher's nephew and in charge of the credits.

[@comicbookguy6361]

Omg! This guy was truly a workaholic, even is his cameos he was still drawing! Hail the King of Comics.... Jack "King" Kirby :D

[@rodblackwood]

Never knew that Jack made a cameo on the show-great to see him.

[@TheDrunkenHer0]

The King + The Man = The Marvel Universe.

[@comicbookguy6361]

Nuff Said !

[@athodyd]

"Was he cosmic at all? Did he krackle? If you could hurry this up I'd appreciate it, I've got like six comics to pencil by the end of the week."

[@loresamba]

Fantastic ! The old great Kirby on drawing his creature !

[@flappospammo]

The greatest of all time.

[@qwisp]

Long live The King.

[@MakThaNife]

This is awesome!

[@philrm99]

I didn't know he had a cameo until I saw this.

[@Wyrmwould]

Clever. Too bad he isn't sharing the cameos with Stan Lee in the new Marvel movies.

[@johanandersson8646]

Yeah kinda hard when your dead but perhaps you already knew that.

[@stillphil]

JACK ! King Kirby.

[@itzjoeymac]

LONG LIVE THE KING!!!

[@DrVonChilla]

The King LIVES!!!!

[@jamieleng]

How come he can't draw the Hulk, he was co-creator, lol.

[@comicbookguy6361]

LOL :D

[@Rigo21berto11]

Este cameo salió del episodio No Escape de la segunda temporada.

[@cha5]

One big thing was that Kirby was no business man unlike say Martin Goodman or Stan Lee, Kirby's main concern throughout his life was creating and providing for his family and such things as the fact that he got no royalties from Marvel for toys animated cartoons plus also that he made more money from designing characters for animation cartoons in the 1980s than he ever got from Marvel and that eternal battle he fought with Marvel over his original artwork up to his final years, well....

[@djs1952]

Way cool! Thanks big time. :)

[@udopampel]

Wow, thanks for that. Great to see Jack Kirby on the Hulk show (looked like it was actually his artwork too).

[@Actionguy1]

I must say, I have a real problem with Stan Lee and Marvel Comics. Lee would give Kirby a story concept, Kirby would "write" the story in pictures, then Stan wrote the dialogue according to the pictures! Stan wanted to take credit for most of the characters that Kirby came up with, and still does to this day. And Marvel NEVER let Kirby have all his original artwork back! Stan screwed Jack!

[@38chinadoll]

Outstanding. Surprised there wasn't an Emmy in the offing.

[@theforestero]

never knew..no one told me......

[@hammerofharpel]

Excellent points. It's unfortunate that Kirby didn't have Stan's in-your-face personality as well. Kirby is a guy I would call a friend. Stan would be someone fun to hang out with -- just as long as I understood Stan had no problem backstabbing you.

[@Voyagersguidebook]

Cool, didn't know that! It would have been funny if Stan Lee himself made a cameo, I could just see it.

[@Actionguy1]

As an artist myself, Jack Kirby was one of my earliest influences. I still remember how the "Galactus Trilogy" scared the hell out of me! Too bad "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" had to disappoint! Kirby's Galactus was one of the MOST visually interesting characters EVER created!

[@hammerofharpel]

You are right. It allowed Stan to do a ton more writing but it put all the burden on the artists. Kirby slaved for them and made peanuts. I read somewhere that Tod McFarland made more money in a few issues of Spiderman than Kirby did in his 10 years at Marvel. Depressing. Glad to see the Kirby family suing Marvel. I hope they win.

[@essiatayi6272]

Who is here in may 2024 ?

[@cha5]

@brianpadraic "That's Martin Goodman! Creator of Marvel Comics!" Uh yes I suppose that's true, Not to put down a dead man but IMHO most of the people who worked for Goodman from the 1940s-1960s like Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman, Roy Thomas etc might have called him something like "Martin Goodman, Mega trend follower who always tried to make a carbon copy of anything that was popular in comicbooks being published by other companies and milk it dry all his life"

[@teenagenutcase1]

Totally. I hear that's why he left Marvel in the seventies.

[@cha5]

Stan did alot of cameos, he still does for most of the Marvel movies still coming out that have characters that he co-created Spiderman, Fantastic Four, X-Men etc. The only JacK Kirby cameos i know of are this one and one he did in the TV series 'Bob', Does anyone know of any other Kirby cameos out there?

[@cha5]

At least Lisa Kirby seems to have a better relationship with Marvel than her father ever did these days what with the Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters edition that Marvel is distributing.

[@deltabilly1]

!!!!

[@hammerofharpel]

Kirby left Marvel because the contract he got from Marv burned him alive with no security. They basically threw him out. Kirby then went to DC and they burned him and then back to Marvel. Everyone sucked Kirby dry. The sad part was when he was finally hired for custom art at great rates, his eyesight was failing him and he couldn't do the work. Guy couldn't catch a break.

[@Actionguy1]

??!

[@hammerofharpel]

That's a bit unfair. Marvel screwed Jack Kirby. Unfortunately, Stan Lee has an ego and certainly 'forget's who created what but it was Archie Goodwin, publisher that burned Jack with horrible contracts and exploitive deals. Jack did so much for marvel. Also said was the personalities. Stan was a natural salesman and Jack kind of rambled a bit. It didn't help the greatest artist who ever lived that he couldn't sell himself to the public with his personality.

[@pablosantander5739]

Better cameo than all the Lee cameos

[@RussX5Z]

Crappy clip.