Footnotes
- ^Note 1 : Mark Evanier (screenwriter, Jack Kirby biographer, and Kirby's assistant during the Fourth World comics):
- Jack based some of his characters (not all) on people in his life or in the news.... Big Barda's roots are not in doubt. The visual came about shortly after songstress Lainie Kazan posed for Playboy...and the characterization between Scott 'Mr. Miracle' Free and Barda was based largely—though with tongue-in-cheek—on the interplay between Jack and his wife Roz. Of course, the whole 'escape artist' theme was inspired by an earlier career of writer-artist Jim Steranko. Scott's conniving manager Funky Flashman was based on Stan Lee.
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