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A veteran of Broadway as well as television and movies, composer Jack Urbont has written music for virtually every popular medium, and for every venue from the concert hall to cartoon shows. His Broadway credits, dating from the 1950s, include Livin' The Life and All In Love, two shows brought him into the orbit of lyricist/author Bruce Geller, who later used Urbont and his music on a pair of his television series, Mannix and Mission Impossible. In between and long since, there were lots of commercials, plus television series (including soap operas such as The Guiding Light), and more theater work in touring companies, dozens of industrial films and commercials, and the occasional feature film (Young Doctors In Love etc.). But Urbont's most familiar musical contribution, at least to comic book fans and 50/60-somethings (circa 2012), may be the theme songs (including lyrics) that he wrote for The Marvel Super-Heroes, the 1966-vintage cartoon adaptations of Captain America, the Might Thor, The Sub-Mariner, Iron Man, and The Incredible Hulk -- 46 years later, he remains particularly proud of the complex internal rhyming in his "Captain America" theme song. Urbont has continued working actively into the twenty-first century, and was as busy in 2012 as he was in 1972.