Today would have been the 100th birthday of legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby. Comic book fans and creators from all over the world are spending today sharing their favorite memories on social media about the comic book icon. When we were thinking of ways to celebrate his tremendous impact on the world of comic books, we realized that one of the easiest ways to visualize Kirby's impact was just to list 100 of his coolest comic book creations. So that's just what we're going to do. We're going to alphabetically list 100 amazingly awesome comic book creations by Jack "The King" Kirby and we're combing characters as much as possible, so this could easily be waaaaaaay over 100 (the X-Men, for instance, are just one entry when they could easily be six between Professor X, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Angel and Iceman). Enjoy!

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1 Absorbing Man

One of the most striking Kirby designs, the idea of a guy walking around with a ball and chain and not only does HE absorb anything that he touches, but the powers also transmits to the ball and chain? What a great visual!

2 Agatha Harkness

When it came time for Franklin Richards (who we counted as part of the Fantastic Four, so he didn't get a listing) to get a babysitter, Kirby went to a very strange place, deciding to give Franklin a literal WITCH for his governess! It was such an out there idea that it really worked.

3 Alicia Masters

The beautiful blind artist girlfriend of the Thing (who apparently is also supposed to be a near double of Sue Storm for some reason) was such a wonderful example of humanity that she nearly single-handedly convinced the Silver Surfer to turn on his master, Galactus, and fight for the fate of Earth!

4 Annihilus

When the Fantastic Four had to go into the Negative Zone to get some McGuffin to save Sue Richards' life while she was giving birth to her and Reed's first child, the Fantastic Four first met the deadly Negative Zone denizen named Annihilus. Dude is a walking BUG who just loves to kill - how cool is that?

5 Ant-Man

Lee and Kirby did the original story where Hank Pym shrunk down to the size of an ant and they then also did the story a year later where Pym was re-worked into a superhero character to join the Marvel Age of superheroes. Kirby was also around when Pym became Giant-Man.

6 Arnim Zola

Right before his run as writer/artist on Captain America came to a close, Jack Kirby introduced one of his most enduring Captain America villains, the twisted geneticist with a creepy head in his stomach, Arnim Zola. As we will see a lot of on this list, Kirby's visuals were stunningly different.

7 Balder

When you're constantly dealing with a lead character who is reckless and headstrong, and the most powerful character in the comic (and ostensibly the wisest one in the comic) is the other character's father and he is just as reckless and headstrong, there is always a place for a character who ISN'T reckless and headstrong. Thus, Balder perfectly balanced out Thor and Odin in the pages of Thor by being just a consistently loyal and levelheaded hero.

8 Baron Strucker

While it was Jim Steranko who famously transitioned Baron Strucker into the Hydra age, it was Lee and Kirby who introduced the villain as a Nazi nemesis of Nick Fury in the Sgt. Fury comic book.

9 Baron Zemo

One of the great retroactive villains is Baron Zemo, who was introduced AFTER we learned that he was the man whose bomb apparently killed off Bucky and left Captain America in suspended animation for decades. When Cap returned, Zemo had to make sure to take Cap out before he took Zemo out. In the end, though, Cap ended up killing Zemo and avenging Bucky's death.

10 Batroc the Leaper

The wonderfully over the top Batroc the Leaper is one of the most durable villains in the Marvel Universe, as it seems like no writer can quite manage to ruin Batroc's charms.

11 Betty Ross

One of the great early dramatic pieces of the Incredible Hulk comic book was seeing Betty Ross deal with her love for Bruce Banner while he was constantly disappearing, and then when she found out Banner's secret, the conflict between Betty and her father over how to handle the Hulk was always powerful.

12 Big Barda

When your main character is a guy named Mister Miracle, he needs a love interest who can hold up to that sort of standard, and Big Barda more than lived up to the over-the-top nature of Mister Miracle. Heck, she was probably MORE bombastic than her lover, Scott Free!

13 Black Panther

Probably the greatest black superhero of all-time, Black Panther made his debut by essentially kicking the butts of the Fantastic Four. It was a bold way to introduce a new black superhero.

14 Black Racer

One of the bleakest Kirby characters is the Black Racer, who is a comatose Vietnam vet who lies in a hospital bed by day and by night, he becomes the Black Racer and goes around doing Death's duty and then returning to his comatose body when he's finished.

15 Blob

One of the earliest "evil mutants," the Blob had been an excellent addition to the Marvel Universe, especially the way that writers have been able to test the whole "unmovable object" aspect of his character.

16 Boy Commandos

After leaving Timely Comics once they were screwed out of the money promised them due to their hit comic book, Captain America Comics, Jack Kirby and Joe Simon went over to DC Comics and strutted their stuff by promptly launching ANOTHER hit comic book, the story of a group of kids who did commando missions during World War II. Boy Commandos was one of DC's most popular titles, but then Kirby and Simon went into the military and the book fell of a lot.

17 Brotherhood of Evil Mutants

A great early idea by Lee and Kirby was to contrast the heroic X-Men by having Magneto have his own sort of X-men team, with his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. While the Evil part has not lasted that long, the Brotherhood has been a mainstay in the X-Men universe in the decades since.

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18 Bucky Barnes

One of the earliest comic book sidekicks was Bucky Barnes, who Kirby and Simon would often depict blazing the bad guys away with a machine gun despite the fact that he's supposed to be barely a teenager.

19 Captain America

The character that put Kirby and Simon on the map, Captain America was a sensation in the 1940s and Kirby and Lee were able to bring him back and make him even BETTER in the 1960s, as they added the whole "man out of time" element to his characterization.

20 Celestials

One of the most underrated additions to the Marvel Universe by Kirby is the Celestials, who have played a major role in a number of comics after Kirby introduced them in the pages of the Eternals during his 1970s return to Marvel.

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21 Challengers of the Unknown

A group shot featuring the members of the Challengers of the Unknown.

During Kirby's less well-remembered stint with DC Comics in the 1950s, he launched the adventuring teams the Challengers of the Unknown, four men who each survived a plane crash and decided that since they were now living on "borrowed time," they should seek out more adventure. This was a huge influence on the Fantastic Four.

22 Circus of Crime

Kirby didn't plumb the depths of his Golden Age work on Captain America that much, but one of the surprising places where he did was with the Circus of Crime, who appeared in an early Captain America Comics issue before being revamped for the Silver Age.

23 Darkseid

The big bad wolf, the evil center of Kirby's Fourth World Saga, Darkseid is one of the most critically acclaimed bad guys in comic book history.

24 Desaad

Desaad of Apokolips from early DC Comics

Darkseid's sadistic underling, Desaad, is particularly interesting because Darkseid has killed him and brought him back a number of times. Can a soul really handle that many changes.

25 Doctor Doom

One of the greatest villains of all-time, Doctor Doom has tormented the Fantastic Four many times over the years in an attempt to get the best of Reed Richards, the one man that Doom might be willing to admit is someone that he admires as an adversary.

26 Doctor Druid

Originally created before any of Marvel's major 1960s heroes, Doctor Druid was originally Doctor Droom and he actually turned Asian when he gained his powers. This was edited away when his first appearance was reprinted, with Droom now becoming Druid.

27 Doctor Faustus

A longstanding Captain America villain, Doctor Faustus was basically like if Sigmund Freud became a super villain.

28 Dragon Man

Dragon Man is another in a long line of artificial characters who ended up turning against their creators to become, if not heroes, then at least not valent

29 Dubbilex

Introduced as part of Cadmus in his Jimmy Olsen comic book stories, Kirby's Dubbilex is a perfect example of how you cannot judge a book by its cover, as the bizarre looking clone is one of the nicest telepathic people you would ever meet

30 Ego the Living Planet

Showing off the pure magnificant scale that Kirby and Lee were working on, Ego The Living Planet is one of the great cosmic additions to the Marvel Universe. Imagine! An actual living PLANET!

31 Enchantress and Executioner

The beautiful Enchantress and her stoic enforcer, the Executioner (who was in love with her while she just treated him like garbage), were steadfast villains of both Thor and the Avengers as part of the Masters of Evil.

32 Eternals

When he returned to Marvel Comics, Kirby tried to do a version of the New Gods with the Eternals, an evolutionary offshoot of the human race that was never meant to be part of Marvel continuity. It was only when Kirby left Marvel that later writers worked the Eternals officially into Marvel continuity.

33 Etrigan the Demon

Jason Blood, The Host Of The Demon Etrigan, leaping through the air in DC Comics.

One of the earliest creations Kirby did for DC when he returned to them in the 1970s was Etrigan the Demon, a demon from the days of King Arthur, who was trapped in his human form, Jason Blood, for hundreds of years before finally becoming free in modern times.

34 Fantastic Four

Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four by Jack Kirby

The superhero team who launched the Marvel age of comics in the 1960s, the Fantastic Four was greatly influenced by Kirby's Challengers of the Unknown, and you can't help but notice a good deal of Kirby's own personality went into the making of the Thing.

35 Female Furies

Subtlety was not something that you would ever find in a New Gods comic book, and that was certainly the case with the female furies, the Apocalyptic strike force that big Barda was once a member of.

36 Fighting American

When Atlas Comics (soon to become Marvel Comics) brought their creation Captain America back to comics in the early 1950s, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby were upset enough that they decided to launch their own version of Captain America named the Fighting American. While initially they were telling stories that were just as anti-communist as the Atlas version of Captain America, they quickly turned it into a superhero satire series

37 Fin Fang Foom

One of the interesting things with Marvel in the 1960s was when they would look back upon their successful days of doing Monster comics and bring some of the more popular monsters into the superhero stories. Perhaps the most popular one of the early monsters was Lee and Kirby's Fin Fang Foom, who then became a popular villain of Marvel superheroes for years.

38 Forbush Man

Kirby could do humor as well, especially when he helped design Marvel's amusing mascot, Forbush Man.

39 Forever People

These New Gods were Kirby's attempt at doing a positive depiction of the then popular hippie movement in the United States.

40 Galactus

With the 50th issue of their Landmark Fantastic Four series coming up, Lee and Kirby decided to go big-time with the villain for the 50th issue, deciding to introduce, in effect, a god for the Fantastic Four to fight. The god in this case was the planet eating Galactus.

Go to the next page for #41-60!

41 Glorious Godfrey

A villain who takes on a particularly modern resonance today is Glorious Godfrey, a villain from Apokolips who was intended to be a parody of tent preachers of the era but works just as well as a parody of any sort of speaker who uses hate to get himself power.

42 Granny Goodness

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When you were training the troops for Darkseid himself, you know you need to have an over-the-top personality and that's exactly what Granny Goodness supplied for Kirby in his Fourth World Saga.

43 Groot

While Fin Fang Foom became a popular villain for Marvel Superheroes soon after he was used as a monster in Monster Comics, Lee and Kirby's Groot took a much longer time before he showed up as a regular addition to Marvel's superhero universe. However when he made it, he made it big time, as he is now a film superstar.

44 Hate-Monger

Lee and Kirby were both fans of having villains whose whole deal with that they were able to convince people into hating others. One of their most shocking villains was the Hate-Monger, the racist villain who turned out to be a clone of Adolf Hitler!

45 Hercules

A joyous addition to the Thor comic books was Lee and Kirby's adaptation of the demigod Hercules, who is introduced into the Marvel Comics as a guy who just wants to have fun, party and fight!

46 High Evolutionary

The High 5evolutionary, who mutated animals into humans and humans into other types of beings, was a unique character in that he could be used as a villain or a heroic supporting cast member, whatever the need may be.

47 Highfather

One of the coolest parts of Highfather, the laid-back leader of the New Gods, is that Kirby was sure to show us his past very quickly and we could see that there was plenty of action and violence in the past of this kindly old man.

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48 Howling Commandos

The Crickets to Nick Fury's Buddy Holly, The Howling Commandos were a riff on DC Comics' Easy Company (with Fury a riff on Sgt. Rock), but they were soon used in different ways as Dum Dum Dugan and the others mostly ended up as SHIELD agents in the present-day Marvel Universe

49 Hulk

Lee and Kirby's answer to Jekyll and Hyde, The Incredible Hulk actually did not become a success under Lee and Kirby, but all the groundwork was laid by those two creators.

50 Impossible Man

In the early days of the Fantastic Four, you never really knew what to expect, and this was made very evident when the Fantastic Four took on the Impossible Man, who turned out to just be an alien who wanted to have fun and prank the Fantastic Four with his crazy powers.

51 Inhumans

Before he left Marvel Comics. Jack Kirby had just started to both write and draw the Inhumans feature in Amazing Adventures, which was Kirby's big break in his mind of getting to control characters that he created in the pages of Fantastic Four. Since he left, he lost that control for good.

52 Iron Man

Kirby was only along for the early part of Iron Man's adventures, but that included the classic origin where Tony Stark is trapped and forced to build weapons for a villain and instead build an armor for himself that he uses to escape and becomes Iron Man

53 Jane Foster

When she was first introduced, Jane Foster looked like she was going to be like every other superhero love interest, stuck in a triangle between her seemingly hapless boss, Don Blake, and his secret identity, the heroic Thor. Lee and Kirby, though, decided to go in a different direction and have Jane and Thor actually get together...for a while, at least.

54 Juggernaut

The Cain and Abel story was on full display when Lee and Kirby introduced Professor X's evil half-brother, the unstoppable Juggernaut!

55 Kamandi

Kirby's most successful title in his 1970s stint with DC Comics where's the story of Kanandi, a boy in a future where humans are scarce and the world is controlled by walking, talking animals. Nothing at all like The Planet of the Apes!

56 Kang

In a clever twist, Lee and Kirby ended up combining THREE of their previously created time traveling villains, Rama-Tut, Immortus and Kang into one person who traveled to different time periods through his life.

57 Klarion the Witch Boy

If you can imagine what a hyperactive boy would be like if he had the powers of a witch, then you can imagine how draining Klarion the Witch Boy was for the characters who interacted with him. It made for some great comics, though.

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58 Kobra

Kobra looking on in fear at someone beneath him. Cover for Kobra #1

One of the last characters that Kirby created for DC during his 1970s stint with the company, the terrorist known as Kobra has become a long-standing DC super villain, although the angle that Kirby was going with (that Kobra had a twin brother who was a good guy), was dropped along the way.

59 Lightray

Lightray is a perfect example of what you would think the heroes of the new Gods would look alike, a happy-go-lucky, beautiful looking hero.

60 Loki

The introduction of Thor's brother, Loki, into the Thor comic books was an explosion of awesomeness, as it turned the traditional Thor stories on their ears as Loki would always come up with clever plots to undermine and attack his brother

Go to the next page for #61-80!

61 Machine Man

One of the last places that you would expect a cool comic book character being introduced is in the later issues of an adaptation of a movie like 2001 A Space Odyssey, but that's just where Jack Kirby introduced the sentient robot who became known as Machine Man!

62 Mad Thinker and Awesome Android

Kirby's designs sometimes felt like they were out of an entirely different era, which was very evident when the Awesome Android was introduced in Fantastic Four #15 as a servant of the villainous Mad Thinker, whose superpower was literally that he thought of every angle for every crime.

63 Magneto

Every so often, a super villain ends up overshadowing the superheroes that he fights against and that was definitely the case with Magneto the master of magnetism in the early issues of X-Men. In this sequence from X-Men #1, you can see a famous panel of Kirby's that Roy Lichtenstein turned into a painting worth millions.

64 Manhunter

When Simon and Kirby came to DC Comics in the 1940s, they were intended to create other superheroes for the company, as well, as DC was paying them quite handsomely for the time. One character they introduced was a sort of hunter of villains, and a DC editor decided to retroactively make it one of DC's established Heroes, the Manhunter, with Simon and Kirby's version taking over from the previous one.

65 Metron

What are the most interesting members of the new Gods was Metron, who served only knowledge, and he would do whatever it took to gain more knowledge, even if it meant cutting deals with the evil Darkseid. He was beyond good and evil.

66 Mister Miracle

When Jack Kirby was young, the only people who wore outlandish costumes like superheroes were circus performers, and he took that idea and paired it with a New God called Mister Miracle in his Fourth World Saga where Scott Free ended up on Earth and became a super escape artist.

67 MODOK

This is saying a lot for Jack Kirby to say that MODOK might be his most distinctive character ever. The villain used his mind as his greatest weapon, and therefore he was mutated so that his mind was all that he needed!

68 Mole Man

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The first villain that the Fantastic Four ever faced with the distinctive dropout from human society, the Mole Man, who lived in an island of monsters that he ruled as their King.

69 Moon-Boy and Devil Dinosaur

One of the last characters that Jack Kirby ever created for Marvel Comics was the outlandishly awesome dinosaur and neanderthal hero pairing of Moon-Boy and Devil Dinosaur!

70 Morgan Edge

When Kirby took over Jimmy Olsen's comic book series, he introduced the business magnet known as Morgan Edge, who ruled the corporate world for while secretly also being a servant of Darkseid himself. Kirby, though, made Edge SO charismatic that DC decided to make Edge a good guy in the end.

71 Newsboy Legion and Guardian

The success of the Boy Commandos led to Simon and Kirby deciding to do a version of the team that was based just in the United States. This became the Newsboy Legion, who were watched over by the superhero known as The Guardian, who was actually the local Beat cop who knew all the boys well.

72 Nick Fury

Originally introduced as a riff on DC Comics' Sergeant Rock, Nick Fury took on a whole new life when Lee and Kirby decided to turn him into a riff on another character, James Bond! Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD, became one of Marvel's most famous characters and his personality and eyepatch became synonymous with Marvel spy stories.

73 Odin

The way that Lee and Kirby used Odin in the Thor comic book was fascinating, because he always existed as a sort of deus ex machina whenever they ran into a story where they could not come up with an ending. However, at the same time Odin was often just as outrageous and reckless as his own son, Thor, and so many stories were driven by Odin's fits of pique.

74 OMAC

Very few comic book writers could ever come up with a future that looked quite as outlandish as the future that existed in Jack Kirby's OMAC (One Man Army Corps). This was a world where people were actually bombs, and it was a world that very much needed a superhero.

75 Orion

At the heart of Jack Kirby's Fourth World Saga was Orion, the son of Darkseid who grew up with the peaceful people of New Genesis and when Highfather's son, Scott Free, escaped from Apokolips (all according to Darkseid's plan, of course), it set the stage for a modern confrontation between New Genesis and Apokolips, and Orion and his father, Darkseid, were center stage of this new battle.

76 Peggy Carter

While she appeared only briefly during Lee and Kirby's stint on the Captain America feature in Tales of suspense, Peggy Carter, the freedom fighter and lover of Captain America during World War II, was so memorable that later writers brought her back and made her a mainstay of the Marvel Universe.

77 Quicksilver

The brash Quicksilver was noted mostly for his concern for his sister, the Scarlet Witch, and for his aggravating nature with others. This, though made him a most interesting superhero. Lee and Kirby were all about superheroes who did not seem like they would be superheroes.

78 Red Skull

When Simon and Kirby introduced The Red Skull in Captain America Comics #1, he was not a particularly interesting character. However, they eventually revamped him and during the Marvel Age of comics, Kirby and Stan Lee made the Red Skull a major part of the Marvel Universe.

79 Rick Jones

Rick Jones, the reckless teenager who raced onto the gamma bomb site and forced Bruce Banner to save him and expose himself to gamma radiation, somehow ended up as one of the top sidekicks in the Marvel Universe. He even ended up having to choose between Captain America and the Hulk!

80 Ronan

We were going to include the Kree as part of Kirby's list of creations, but he really did not do a whole lot with the Kree during his time on the Fantastic Four, so we're instead going to choose the Kree warrior known as Ronan the Accuser as the symbol to stand in for the Kree as a whole. Ronan and his bizarre weapon were a strong enemy for the Fantastic Four.

Go to the next page for #81-100!

81 Sandman

During Jack Kirby's 1970s stint at DC Comics, Joe Simon happened to be doing some work for DC, as well, so the two creators teamed up together for the first time since their big split in the late 1950s (which was an amicable one, of course, but it is still weird to get back together after over a decade of being apart). Their collaboration was the Sandman, a hero who lived in your dreams.

82 Scarlet Witch

In a lot of ways, under Lee and Kirby, the Scarlet Witch was mostly known for how much guys wanted to get with her. She was constantly being hit on by people and Magneto even tried to use her as a lure to get Namor to work with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. However, she managed to maintain an honorable outlook on life despite her rough position in the world and ended up becoming an Avenger with her brother (where, of course, she was quickly involved in multiple romances).

83 Sentinels

Jack Kirby was not on the X-Men for too long, but soon before he left the series, he introduced the mutant-hunting robots known as the Sentinels and Kirby's design for these robots is still used to this very day, although with some minor upgrades along the way.

84 Sharon Carter

Initially introduced as a more traditional female SHIELD agent, in that she was a bit demure, Sharon Carter was soon kicking ass and taking names in the Captain America feature in Tales of Suspense, leading to her and Captain America quickly forming quite the power couple (things got weird when she realized that Captain America had dated her older sister, Peggy, which the shifting Marvel timeline eventually turned into Sharon's Grand-Aunt Peggy).

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85 Sif

While Jane Foster was Thor's love interest for some time, eventually Kirby and Lee ended up siding more with the Asgardian warrior known as Sif. She could handle herself in battle and thus she was a bit more of a fit with the reckless Thor, who was always finding himself mixed up in some sort of dangerous plot. It didn't hurt, of course, that she was gorgeous.

86 Silver Surfer

Introduced during the famous Galactus Trilogy, the Silver Surfer ended up becoming a cause of strife between Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. As soon as Kirby introduced the character, an alien who learned to feel when he met Alicia Masters, Lee fell in love with the character. Kirby, though, felt a sense of protection towards the character after he invented him, so it became an awkward situation as both men wanted to control the Surfer's destiny. When Lee launched a Silver Surfer comic book and had John Buscema draw it instead of Kirby (and came up with his own origin for the Surfer), Kirby was not happy.

87 Skrulls

When Lee and Kirby introduced the shapeshifting Skrulls in the pages of Fantastic Four #2, there is no way that the creators ever would have guessed that these seemingly minor characters would later become major players in the Marvel Universe, being in the center of two major events, the "Kree-Skrull War" and Secret Invasion, where the Skrulls tried to surreptitiously take control of Earth from the humans.

88 Super-Skrull

One of the coolest ideas for a Fantastic Four villain was the Super-Skrull, because he had the powers of all four members of the Fantastic Four! It was a crazy cool visual to see a bad guy rocking all four powers of the FF at once!

89 Supreme Intelligence

As you have seen, Kirby's designs are almost inexplicable, and that was definitely the case for the Kree leader known as the Supreme Intelligence. I can't even imagine the thought process that came up with having the head of the Kree be a disembodied giant head with tentacles on it that lived in a huge vat.

90 Thor

When he was first introduced, Thor was more like Marvel's version of Superman than anything else, including the fact that when Don Blake became Thor, he was still Don Blake, he was just in Thor's body. Over time, as Kirby's influence over the series grew, it became less about Don Blake becoming a superhero named Thor and more about a god named Thor who shared a body with a human named Don Blake.

It became more like the traditional Norse Myths that Kirby adored and the book became one of Marvel's most critically acclaimed series of the era.

91 Thunderbolt Ross

When it comes to steadfast adversaries, J. Jonah Jameson and Spider-Man is definitely high on the list, but imagine if J. Jonah Jameson didn't only have scientists that he funded to take down Spider-Man (who kept turning into supervillains again and again) and instead had the full force of the United States military behind him? That was like Thunderbolt Ross and his obsession with taking down the Hulk. Also, unlike Jameson, Ross had a direct connection to the Hulk, as his daughter, Betty, was in love with the Hulk's human identity, Bruce Banner. It was a fascinating dynamic watching all of them interact with each other/

92 Two-Gun Kid

The Two-Gun Kid was a regular western hero that was introduced by Lee and Kirby, but as the Marvel Age of Comics began to take off, Kirby and Lee decided to revamp the character and turn him more into a sort of Western superhero. The end result made for one of the most memorable Western heroes of the decade, and Two-Gun Kid still shows up every once in a while in Marvel Comics today.

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93 Warlock

We've mentioned conflicts between Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, and one of their biggest ones came with the creation of Warlock. Kirby wanted to do a story where a group of scientists tried to create the perfect man but find that the perfect man would find them all so IMperfect that he would want to destroy them. It's a clever idea. However, Lee wanted things to be more straightforward, so he had the scientists be evil scientists who were trying to create a perfect being the rule the world and the perfect being turned on them because they were explicitly evil.

94 Warriors Three

The best part of the Thor comics for some time was the "Tales of Asgard" back-ups where Kirby and Lee would introduce all sorts of cool ideas and then work those ideas into future Thor comic book stories. In one of these serialized back-ups, Thor put together a crew of warriors for a mission. Three of the people he recruits became an informal team themselves, Fandral, Hogun and Volstagg became the Warriors Three, Thor's most reliable warrior buddies (outside of Balder, of course).

95 Wasp

After a few issues as a solo hero, Lee and Kirby decided to give Ant-Man a partner when they introduced a scientist who was killed by a being from another dimension that the scientist had just accessed himself. The scientist's daughter wanted to avenge her father's death, so Ant-Man agreed to turn the young woman into the winsome Wasp, a flying hero with powers just like Ant-Man's.

96 Watcher

One of the oddest traditions in the Marvel Universe is for Uatu the Watcher to show up and tell everyone that he cannot interfere, because his duty is only to observe events. Besides the fact that telling people that they're being observe is, in and of itself, interference, the Watcher would also constantly>/i> interfere directly with the heroes, like when he helped the Fantastic Four defeat Galactus!

97 Wonder Man

Wonder Man was intended by Lee and Kirby to be a one-off character, a man recruited by the Masters of Evil to infilitrate the Avengers and take them down from within using the superpowers that Baron Zemo of the Masters of Evil gave him. In the end, though, Wonder Man was too much of a hero to do so, so he betrayed the Masters of Evil and died saving the Avengers. Years later, it turned out he was just in a coma and he was still alive. He became a longtime Avenger after that.

98 Wrecker

You really don't get much more awesome than a villain with a sort of ski mask and a magic crowbar. Think about it, he has a magic crowbar! The universe has the Infinity Gauntlet, it has the Casket of Ancient Winters, it has the Siege Perilous...and it also has a magical crowbar that was used just to smash stuff. Comic books are amazing.

99 Wyatt Wingfoot

The stories in the Fantastic Four during the heyday of Lee/Kirby and inker Joe Sinnott were flying by with such speed that the end of the Galactus Trilogy actually is only about halfway through Fantastic Four #50. The rest of the issue deals with Johnny Storm going to college! Once there, he meets a Native American named Wyatt Wingfoot who becomes his best friend. There weren't an awful lot of good depictions of Native Americans in comic books in the mid-1960s, so it was impressive what Lee and Kirby did with Wingfoot.

100 X-Men

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Professor Charles Xavier brought together a group of young mutants and trained them in the use of their powers so that they could become superheroes as part of his X-Men, which he claimed was named after the "X-tra power" that they each had and not, you know, after his superhero name, Professor X. Total coincidence! The X-Men were a bit of a minor group of heroes who later became the most popular comic book series in the Marvel Universe for twenty years beginning in the 1980s! There is no way Lee and Kirby ever would have predicted that.

Happy birthday, Jack! Thanks for the all of the great characters you helped to give us over the years!

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