Editing Joe Kubert (section)

==Early life==
Kubert was born September 18, 1926<ref name="Lambiek">{{cite web |url=http://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kubert.htm |title=Joe Kubert |date=August 13, 2012 |publisher=[[Lambiek|Lambiek Comiclopedia]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203204615/http://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kubert.htm |archive-date=February 3, 2014 |url-status=live |access-date=August 12, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> to a [[Polish jews|Jewish]] family in [[Ozeriany, Borshchiv Hromada|Jezierzany]] in southeast [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]] (now Ozeriany in [[Ukraine]]).<ref>{{cite web|last=Meth |first=Clifford |author-link=Clifford Meth |url=http://comicsbulletin.com/joe-kubert-from-shtetl-to-grand-master-part-one/ |title=Joe Kubert: From Shtetl to Grand Master - Part One |work=Comics Bulletin |publisher="Meth Addict" (column), ComicsBulletin.com |date=June 4, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820053033/http://www.comicsbulletin.com/meth/111759071768379.htm |archive-date=August 20, 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> He was the son of Etta (née Reisenberg) and Jacob Kubert.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3413900173.html?key=01-42160D527E1B10681003021F076904332953225E20212F592C5B4C23291A607F127119731A7B1D6B75170028|title= Kubert, Joe, 1926-|date= n.d.|publisher= [[HighBeam Research]]|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130517194526/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3413900173.html?key=01-42160D527E1B10681003021F076904332953225E20212F592C5B4C23291A607F127119731A7B1D6B75170028|archive-date=May 17, 2013 |url-status= live|df=mdy-all|access-date= August 13, 2012}}</ref> He immigrated  to [[Brooklyn]], New York City, United States, at age two months with his parents and his two-and-a-half-year-old sister Ida. Raised in the [[East New York]] neighborhood, the son of a [[kosher]] [[butcher]],<ref>{{cite web |url= http://graphicnyc.blogspot.com/2009/03/keeping-current-with-joe-kubert.html|title= Keeping current with Joe Kubert|first= Christopher|last= Irving|date= March 22, 2009|publisher= Graphic NYC|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131223003424/http://graphicnyc.blogspot.com/2009/03/keeping-current-with-joe-kubert.html|archive-date= December 23, 2013|url-status= live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Kubert started drawing at an early age, encouraged by his parents.<ref name=yossel>{{cite web|url=http://www.jbooks.com/firstchapters/index/FC_Kubert1.htm |last=Kubert|first= Joe|title= Excerpt from ''Yossel''| year=2003| publisher=JBooks.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721012723/http://www.jbooks.com/firstchapters/index/FC_Kubert1.htm | archive-date=July 21, 2011|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In his introduction to his [[graphic novel]] ''Yossel'', Kubert wrote, "I got my first paying job as a cartoonist for comic books when I was eleven-and-a-half or twelve years old. Five dollars a page. In 1938, that was a lot of money".<ref name=yossel /> Another source, utilizing quotes from Kubert, says in 1938, a school friend who was related to [[Louis Silberkleit]], a principal of MLJ Studios (the future [[Archie Comics]]), urged Kubert to visit the company, where he began an unofficial apprenticeship and at age 12 "was allowed to ink a rush job, the pencils of [[Bob Montana]]'s [teen-humor feature] ''[[Archie (comic book)#Publication history|Archie]]''".<ref name=stiles>{{cite web |first=Steve |last=Stiles |author-link=Steve Stiles |url=http://www.stevestiles.com/kubert1.htm |title=The Genesis of Joe Kubert Part 1 |publisher=Stevestiles.com |date=n.d. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207155902/http://www.stevestiles.com/kubert1.htm |archive-date=December 7, 2013 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all |access-date=June 8, 2012 }}</ref> Author David Hajdu, who interviewed Kubert and other comics professionals for a 2008 book, reported, however, that, "Kubert has told varying versions of the story of his introduction to the comics business at age ten, sometimes setting it at the comics shop run by [[Harry "A" Chesler]], sometimes at MLJ; however, MLJ did not start operation until 1939, when Kubert was thirteen".<ref name=dh>Hajdu, David. ''The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America'', page 357. New York, New York: [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]], 2008. {{ISBN|0-374-18767-3}}; {{ISBN|978-0-374-18767-5}}.</ref>

Kubert attended [[Manhattan]]'s [[The High School of Music and Art|High School of Music and Art]].<ref name=yossel/> During this time he and classmate [[Norman Maurer]], a future collaborator, would sometimes skip school in order to see publishers.<ref name=stiles/> Kubert began honing his craft at the Chesler studio, one of the comic-book packagers that had sprung up in the [[Mass media|medium]]'s early days to supply outsourced comics to publishers.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euTNEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT195 |title=Comics Through Time |editor-first=M. Keith |editor-last=Booker |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |isbn=9798216063285 |page=<!-- no page numbers --> |date=2014-10-28 |access-date=2024-06-01 |via=Google Books}}</ref>