The Best Jack Kirby Comparison Ever?

Probably not, but it's a pretty good one, and one that hadn't occurred to me. The blogger Gil Roth makes an off-hand comparison here between the late King of Comics and the prolific, exquisite Motown pop-song writing and production team of Holland-Dozier-Holland. I think Kirby's achievement was greater, more significantly influential within his form, and of course extended in both directions past the 1960s -- but there are similarities. HDH were at their most prodigious at that cultural moment when Kirby enjoyed his amazing run at Marvel Comics; they both provided the '60s with excellent, consistent outpourings of pop culture that have stood the test of time, they both worked within very specialized commercial restrictions; they both helped re-define through the excellence of their results what that commercial output could be like.

Plus if you extend the comparison I'm pretty sure this makes Martin Goodman Berry Gordy and Stan Lee Diana Ross, which is highly amusing.
 
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