Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige counts himself fortunate to have spent years working with Stan Lee, the comic book writer who became world famous thanks to cameos in films based on Marvel creations.

But Feige regrets never meeting Jack Kirby, the legendary artist whose work included Captain America, X-Men, the Hulk, Fantastic Four and many more.

“The whole movie is a love letter to what one man was able to do with a pencil, sitting at a little desk on the East Coast,” Feige told The Hollywood Reporter at the Eternals premiere in Hollywood Monday.

The legacy of Kirby, who died in 1994, was top of mind at the Eternals premiere, where Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld walked the red carpet with the copy of Eternals No?

One of the bummers, you could argue there are many, of the current timeline that we live in, is that Jack Kirby passed before he got to see any of this,” said Feige.

Asked how that scene came together, Feige noted it took a lot of coordination between Sony and Marvel?

“There was a lot of coordination — and if you don’t know all the coordination yet, I’m not going to be the one to tell you — but yes, between Sony and Marvel and the Venom team and the No Way Home team,” said Feige.

And Jeffrey Wright, our Watcher, is great,” said Feige, referencing Wright’s roles of Commissioner Gordon in DC’s The Batman and the narrator in the Marvel series What If…