Jack Kirby on women in comics: "I’ve always had the highest respect for women as people, certainly, and I’ve always used them in comics in the same manner that I’ve used my male characters. Women are heroines and villainesses, and contend with virtue and evil just as men do. There’s no difference between us except physical structure, in my mind." —Jack Kirby Image of Big Barda via the sublime 4CP. Kirby’s analysis of his personal affection for Barda here.