9. The interesting thing is that when Kirby wrote his story in 1943, there was only one degree of separation between Podhoretz & the cartoonist. Podhoretz had an older high school friend named Eli Katz (later known as Gil Kane). In 1942 Kane became Kirby's assistant.

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10. In high school, Kane (aka Katz) and Podhoretz had collaborated on comic book stories together. But Kane dropped out of school to work in comics as Kirby's assistant while Podhoretz, under tutelage of Mrs K, became outstanding scholar & Columbia student.