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Power Nelson, Man of the Future had been the cover feature of the first six issues of Prize Comics, but that ended for good with Prize Comics #7.  A burst of new creators and new features quickly left Power Nelson on the back pages of the title, and as a result of this new mix[...]

As we've noted when discussing one of the most famous comic book covers of the Golden Age, Lou Fine's covers for the first five issues of Fantastic Comics can be connected to interior Samson stories in the title.  Immediately after that, covers were often less grounded in a particular interior storyline, but could nonetheless still[...]

Prize's Headline Comics is best remembered for becoming a stand-out crime comic book series in 1947 featuring work by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby beginning with issue #23.  While this seems a radical change from what had come before, perhaps it was the logical move for the publisher Prize, as the title's beginnings were clearly[...]

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby are among the most famous creative teams in American comic book history.  They are the legendary creators of comic book titles and characters like Captain America and Bucky, Newsboy Legion, Boy Commandos, Manhunter, Boys' Ranch, Fighting American, and numerous others.  Every team starts somewhere, and the earliest collaborations of these[...]

Sometimes a comic book key is not about a first appearance, origin, first issue, or pivotal events in the story.  Sometimes, it's more about an important moment in time, and the first collaboration of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby is one such moment.  The legendary pair are among the most famous creative teams in American[...]

Of the genesis of Pocket Comics which debuted long-running character the Black Cat among others, Joe Simon noted in his biography Joe Simon: My Life in Comics, that "Alfred's first offices were on 44th Street in the same building as Fawcett Comics He had this idea for "pocket comics," little books that were half the[...]

AS Joe Simon told it in his 2011 bio Joe Simon: My Life in Comics,  as part of a proposed return to the superhero genre for publisher Archie, which would be launched by Simon and Jack Kirby, John Goldwater had asked him for something more like Superman in addition to The Fly "So I proposed[...]

Comic book genres have sometimes risen to prominence on the success of a single title, and such was the case for romance comic books with Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Young Romance in 1947.  When Time Magazine covered the romance comic book boom in 1949, it was already citing Young Romance as the originator of[...]

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby may be best known for creating the patriotic political superhero with Captain America, espousing military intervention in a foreign country at a time when US politics favoured isolationism, and Nazis held rallies in New York But after the war, they also invented the American romance comic, the success of which[...]

It is an all-time romance comic cover, featuring art by icons Joe Simon and Jack Kirby I have actually read this one We got in a coverless copy at the shop I work at a few years ago, and these comics had a certain charm A really nice raw copy of the book is taking[...]

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby were a Golden Age comic book force, not only creating Captain America in 1939, but also the romance comic in the forties, which spurred a successful genre in and of itself They had moved from creating comics to producing comics with other talent, including themselves, for comic book publishers, but[...]

Samson #6 has a pretty epic cover featuring the Fox Feature Syndicate hero taking on a green octopus man.  It's a wild cover that fits right into the Fox lineup, which CGC attributes to Joe Simon, while CGC is less sure.  One thing I will always love about these golden age heroes books is how giant[...]

Lou Fine is one of the most important and influential artists of the Golden Age of comics.  A creator who made his mark on characters ranging from Black Condor and the Ray to Uncle Sam and the Spirit, Fine was an artist that others of his generation admired.  Fellow Golden Age legend Joe Simon called[...]

The legendary creative team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby did some of their most important yet underappreciated work with publisher Prize beginning around late 1946, at first on established titles such as Headline Comics and Prize Comics among others, and eventually including series like Black Magic and the landmark series Young Romance Shortly after[...]

The legendary creative team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby did some of their most important yet underappreciated work with publisher Prize beginning around late 1946, at first on established titles such as Headline Comics and Prize Comics among others, and eventually including series like Black Magic and the landmark series Young Romance Shortly after[...]

Legendary creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby did a number of covers for Harvey in 1942 Among the team's cover work for Harvey during this period was a stand-out run of covers on Speed Comics #17-23, featuring the patriotic superhero character Captain Freedom There has been a longtime debate regarding who did what on each[...]

First, here are all the credits as listed for Special Thanks: Episode 1:  Paul Levitz, Joe Orlando, Jack Oleck, Nestor Redondo, Jack Sparling. Episode 2: Gardner F Fox, Bob Haney, Paul Levitz, Joe Orlando, Jack Oleck, Nestor Redondo, Jack Sparling, Alex Toth, Mike Sekowsky, Mark Hanerfeld, Bill Draut Episode 3:  Stephen Bissette, Mike Carey, Steve Dillon, Gardner F[...]

Aside from a bit of work in Prize Comics in 1940, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby began working in earnest with publisher Prize around late 1946, at first on established titles such as Headline Comics and Prize Comics among others, and eventually including series like Black Magic and the landmark series Young Romance After their[...]

Newspapers were full of talk about both German and American super-soldiers before Captain America Comics #1 hit the newsstands.  The dreaded German V-1 influenced several comic book robot planes.  Most obviously, the atomic bomb had a dramatic influence on the course of comic book history.  And in the year leading up to Sensation Comics #1[...]

Captain America Comics #1 CGC 9.4 from the fabled Tom Reilly / San Francisco Pedigree has just sold for a record $3,120,000 in this afternoon's session of the current 2022 April 7 – 10 Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction #7270 at Heritage Auctions.  The March 1941 cover-dated issue by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby[...]

Today, as part of Heritage Auctions' Platinum Session auctions, Captain America Comics #1 by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby from 1941, part of the San Francisco Pedigree collection, graded at CGC 9.4, is going under the hammer And from proxy bids alone, it already has almost two million dollars in bids It's the first appearance[...]

Joe Simon is best known as the co-creator of Captain America with Jack Kirby, but he had a long and varied career in comic books After a short stint as an editor at Fox Publications in 1939, Simon moved over to Timely (later to be Marvel Comics), where he became the company's first editor By[...]

The classic cover of Captain America punching Hitler is more iconic than ever, and the comic was created by one of the most acclaimed creative teams of all time in Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.  Al Lieberman inked this issue, with Howard Ferguson on lettering Perpetually one of the most sought-after comic books in American[...]

But who was Captain America created by again? It's one thing when the general media make the mistake that Stan Lee co-created Captain America (though his first published work was a short Captain America prose story in the third issue) rather than Joe Simon and Jack Kirby I mean, the solicitation got it right… CAPTAIN AMERICA THE[...]

Evanier shared that Kirby wanted Evanier to be his Boswell (not the guy from Charlie's Angels, but the biographer) as he wanted Evanier to write a book about Kirby someday. Sherman then read a excerpt from Joe Simon's autobiography, in which Joe says he had to share a room with Kirby, Evanier, and Sherman, and saying[...]

The Fighting American is kept busy by his handlers while Speedboy causes national controversy about the practices of the FA. Does it make for a good read?

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Fighting American Cover C by Jack Kirby The Fighting American was a Captain America-esque comic that Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created in 1954 Well, I say that it's Captain America-esque, but, in reality, there were plenty of patriotic costumed heroes in that era However, this one was unique in that Simon and Kirby created[...]

He took to drawing quickly, starting in comic strips in 1936, and, in 1940, he teamed up with Joe Simon to create Captain America and Bucky Barnes. It's weird to think that a man born a 100 years ago in Manhattan could have such an effect on my life He actually died a year before I[...]

They play with shadows well, and it gives a gothic atmosphere which matches Jason and Etrigan perfectly. The Kirby Grabbers this time include a romance-mystery story called "The Face Behind the Mask," done with Ed Herron, and some sci-fi-futurist-world-of-tomorrow fair called "Just Imagine," which he did with fellow comics legend Joe Simon (these two men created[...]

As a result, Cap creators Jack Kirby and Joe Simon routinely received death threats from Hitler's followers According to the Kirby Museum: "On occasion the Timely office would get phone calls and letters from Nazi sympathizers threatening the creators of Captain America Once, while Jack was in the Timely office, a call came from someone in the[...]