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You may have seen that picture taken of a young Alan Moore speaking at the Eisner Awards while an elderly Jack Kirby looks on with a look of amusement on his face. As it turns out, Kirby met tons of other colorful figures over the years once he and his wife, Roz, moved to Thousand Oaks in Southern California. 

At San Diego Comic-Con's Annual Jack Kirby Tribute Panel, Kirby's granddaughter, Tracy Kirby, recalled some of the folks who came by Jack and Roz's home in Thousand Oaks. "Well, growing up, I was a little disappointed because I was too young, I was told, to babysit Mark Hamill's kids, and he used to come over to the pool... That was the one thing, people like Jack and Roz were so friendly with everybody," Tracy Kirby began. 

"Glenn Danzig, that was the strangest," she said, recalling the Misfits singer dropping by the Kirbys' home. "I came into their little kitchen, their little dining room... and Roz is making sandwiches, and Jack is sitting at the table. And then here was this guy dressed completely opposite of them... And he was the nicest guy." 

If I were Mark Hamill, I too would hang out at Jack Kirby's house. 

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