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| date unknown, possibly never | Jack Kirby tells Mark Evanier about the creation of Challengers of the Unknown |
| Summer 1989 | Gary Groth: over three hours of interview time with Kirby and Roz 1 |
| August 1989 through 1992 | Ray Wyman, Jr: 40 hours of interviews with Kirby and Roz 2 |
| 1990 | Roz Kirby implores the friends around the house not to show Kirby The Comic Book Makers by Simon or even let on that they’d read it; Evanier is not present for the admonition |
| 1994 | Kirby dies; Evanier is appointed “official biographer” effectively suspending further editions of Wyman’s book, and promises Roz he will “tidy up” the loose end of the “regrettable” way KIRBY failed to sufficiently credit SIMON when in reality it was always the other way around 3 |
| 1996-97 | on Kirby-L over the course of months, Evanier manufactures on the fly a scenario where Simon is involved in the creation of Challengers 4 |
| 2004 | on Kirby-L, Stan Taylor and Harry Mendryk carry on for Evanier who left the list in 1999: Taylor says Simon had no memory of working on Challengers, had his memory prodded by Evanier; Mendryk says Simon showed him an email from Evanier setting out the story they settled on 5 |
| someday, possibly never | Evanier publishes a Kirby biography based on the false recollections of Simon, Lee, and Brodsky; Kirby did not interview for the project, so his version can be superseded |
Jack Kirby’s legacy is sufficiently diminished by the Lee (and Simon) slant of the Jack Kirby Collector. He doesn’t need a biography that subsumes his point of view in favour of theirs.
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