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The Summer of Jack

Jack Kirby  (1917-1994)

For most Americans of a certain age, the summer of 1968 is viewed as a kind of dark chasm that yawned between the Summer of Love and the Summer of Woodstock.  It was, after all, the summer of Martin, the summer of Bobby.  Of My Lai and Biafra.  It marked the rise of Nixon and the fall of Prague Spring.  It hosted the Chicago Convention.

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