SWEET. Jack "King" Kirby was a "rather liberal democrat"

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http://povonline.com/jackfaq/JackFaq1.htm

What were Jack's politics like?

He was a rather liberal democrat — not uncommon among Jewish folks of his generation — but he had a general suspicion of most leaders of all stripes. He admired Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy, but not many prominent politicians of any party beyond those two. He was especially distrustful of public figures about whom there was a "cult of personality," and he used those feelings when he wrote about Glorious Godfrey in the Fourth World series. Godfrey was inspired by the then-current pronouncements of the Reverend Billy Graham (and a wee bit by TV pitchman Arthur Godfrey). Mr. Graham's speeches now seem more subdued but, at the time, he was coming under criticism from all sides for what some felt were excessive, apocalyptic speeches predicting the end of the world. Jack saw a few of Graham's fire-and-brimstone lectures on TV and felt that the reverend was abusing his position by taking the "fear" in "fear of God" to unhealthy extremes.

And he really, really didn't like Richard Nixon.

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