Hey everybody. Welcome to this week in Kirby, the special edition of this week in Marvel

podcast, celebrating the 100th birthday of Jack King Kirby, one of the major figures in Marvel,

in comics, just a huge creative voice, and we're talking to a variety. in Lorraine Sink, hosts and writer of Marvel Minute,

as well as Thrip, the Big Marvel Show.

I'm just going to try to put my mic right.

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There we go. There I go.

Sorry if that was roughly. Now, Lor Lorraine in addition to what you do for us with the videos you're also a writer.

I am. Talk a little bit about what you've done on the writing side of things, the books you put out and the kind of research you've done into the history of Marvel?

For sure. So I have my second book is coming out this September so this is well timed and that's going to be called Ultimate Marvel.

The book I wrote previously

was called Marvel Absolutely Everything Unique to Know.

And that, both of those books are from DK publishing

that write a lot of huge anthology books which this is that.

Marvel absolutely everything you need to know is kind of like a fun facty sort of, you know, funny and sort of fact-to-zoid feeling book. It's really great for all ages.

I think adults really love it as well as kids. And then this ultimate Marvel book is really a comprehensive

book it really goes into character backstories starting with the very early days

of comic when it was Atlas and Timely.

Oh nice.

All the way back into like the original kind of soldier comets like Combat Kelly

and all that kind of stuff.

And Ra Hide Kid like way back.

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