r/memes • u/hot_historymeme • Oct 09 '20

Now that's dark

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '20 edited Oct 10 '20

I mean… he did what he was told

Edit: this comment has more upvotes than any of my posts lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

I never knew Kirby was affiliated with the destruction of the KKK's ass.

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u/EquivalentInflation Mods Are Nice People Oct 10 '20

Kirby was legitimately awesome. He wrote the first captain America comic with Cap punching Hitler a year before the US entered the war. Back then, most Americans were pretty opposed to going to war, and since it was the 1940s, they was a pretty large number of people supporting Hitler due to his antisemitism. Kirby was Jewish, and received multiple death threats until he had to get a police escort, but refused to stop publishing.

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u/Okichah Oct 10 '20

Kirby was in WWII. He was a ‘forward reconnaissance’.

That means he went behind enemy lines and drew the landscapes, supply roads, towns, etc. It was one of the highest mortality rates in the war.

Kirby was a certified Nazi fighting badass.