What did Jack do on the first stories of Iron Man and Daredevil?
The first Iron Man story was wholly drawn by Don Heck. The first Daredevil story was drawn mainly by Bill Everett. Steve Ditko and Sol Brodsky completed the inking, mostly by filling in backgrounds. Kirby aided Everett in some undetermined manner, though he definitely did not do full breakdowns as has been erroneously reported about this story and the first Iron Man. These falsehoods, I had a hand in spreading back in the early seventies. At the time, Jack claimed to have laid out those stories and, I repeated his claim in print — though not before checking with Heck who said, in effect, “Oh, yeah. I remember that. Jack did the layouts.” We all later realized he was mistaken. Soon after, I met Everett and found him to be equally confused. He initially confirmed it and then, when I told him I didn’t think it looked like Kirby layouts, he said, “Oh, I guess it wasn’t.” The confusion in these cases is, I think, understandable. Heck and Everett both did do work over Jack’s layouts…just n
