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- Kirby was pretty much marking time on the Fantastic Four for his last twenty or so issues, deliberately keeping all his good ideas to himself so that he could do them over at DC without Lee.
Source: Creator Breakdown / Comic Books - But this is followed by the implication that his influence is keeping the League out of Knight Templar territory and a reoccurring tendency to try helping everyone that eventually leads to marking him as a Messianic Archetype.
Source: Messiah Creep
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