Jack Kirby, whose life and work are getting another look with the “Fourth World Omnibus” and “Kirby: King of Comics,” jumped from Marvel to DC Comics and from familiar heroes to those with a more far-out sensibility.

Jack Kirby helped bring Captain America into the world.

A voice screaming from the panels of “Age of Bronze,” a series fusing the many legends of the Trojan War.

In “Y: The Last Man,” Yorick Brown and his monkey, Ampersand, are the only male mammals left on earth after a mysterious plague.

A separatist militia stands its ground in a world without men. Photo: From “Y: The Last Man.”

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