Joe Simon

American comic book creator (1913–2011)

This article is about the comic book writer. For the singer of the same name, see Joe Simon (singer).

Joe Simon

Simon with a fan at the
2006 New York Comic Con

Born| Hymie Simon
(1913-10-11)October 11, 1913
Rochester, New York, U.S.
Died| December 14, 2011(2011-12-14) (aged 98)
New York City, U.S.
Area(s)| Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller, Inker, Editor, Publisher, Letterer, Colourist
Pseudonym(s)| Gregory Sykes, Jon Henri

Notable works

| Captain America, Fighting American, Sick, Young Romance, The Fly, Blue Bolt
Collaborators| Jack Kirby
Awards| Inkpot Award, 1998
Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, 1999
Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame (2014)
Spouse(s)| Harriet Feldman
Children| 5

Joseph Henry Simon[1] (born Hymie Simon;[1] October 11, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s–1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.

With his partner, artist Jack Kirby, he co-created Captain America, one of comics' most enduring superheroes, and the team worked extensively on such features at DC Comics as the 1940s Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy, and co-created the Newsboy Legion, the Boy Commandos, and Manhunter. Simon and Kirby creations for other comics publishers include Boys' Ranch, Fighting American and the Fly. In the late 1940s, the duo created the field of romance comics, and were among the earliest pioneers of horror comics. Simon, who went on to work in advertising and commercial art, also founded the satirical magazine Sick in 1960, remaining with it for over a decade. He briefly published with DC Comics in the 1970s.

Simon was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1999.

## Early life

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Joe Simon was born in 1913 as Hymie Simon[1] and raised in Rochester, New York, the son of Harry Simon, who had emigrated from Leeds, England, in 1905, and Rose (Kurland),[2][3] whom Harry met in the United States.[4] Harry Simon moved to Rochester, then a clothing-manufacturing center where his younger brother Isaac lived,[5] and the couple had a daughter, Beatrice, in 1912.[4] A poor Jewish family, the Simons lived in "a first-floor flat which doubled as my father's tailor shop".[6] Simon attended Benjamin Franklin High School, where he was art director for the school newspaper and the yearbook – earning his first professional fee as an artist when two universities each paid $10 publication rights for his art deco, tempera splash pages for the yearbook sections.[7]

## Career

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### Beginnings

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Upon graduation in 1932, Simon was hired by Rochester Journal-American art director Adolph Edler as an assistant, replacing Simon's future comics colleague Al Liederman, who had quit.[8] Between production duties, he did occasional sports and editorial cartoons for the paper.[9] Two years later, Simon took an art job at the Syracuse Herald in Syracuse, New York, for $45 a week, supplying sports and editorial cartoons there as well. Shortly thereafter, for $60 a week, he succeeded Liederman as art director of a paper whose name Simon recalled in his 1990 autobiography as the Syracuse Journal American,[10] although the Syracuse Journal and the Syracuse Sunday American, were the separate weekday and Sunday papers, respectively. The paper soon closed, and Simon, at 23, ventured to New York City.[11]

There, Simon took a room at the boarding house Haddon Hall, in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, near Columbia University. At the suggestion of the art director of the New York Journal American, he sought and found freelance work at Paramount Pictures, working above the Paramount Theatre on Broadway, retouching the movie studio's publicity photos.[12] He also found freelance work at Macfadden Publications, doing illustrations for True Story and other magazines. Sometime afterward, his boss, art director Harlan Crandall, recommended Simon to Lloyd Jacquet, head of Funnies, Inc., one of that era's comic-book "packagers" that supplied comics content on demand to publishers testing the new medium. That day, Simon received his first comics assignment, a seven-page Western.[13]

Four days later, Jacquet asked Simon, at the behest of Timely Comics publisher Martin Goodman, to create a flaming superhero like Timely's successful character the Human Torch. From this came Simon's first comic-book hero, the Fiery Mask.[12] Simon used the pseudonym Gregory Sykes on at least one story during this time, "King of the Jungle", starring Trojak The Tiger Man, in Timely's Daring Mystery Comics #2 (Feb. 1940).[14]

### Simon and Kirby

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1974 Comic Art Convention program, reprinting Simon's original 1940 sketch of Captain America.

During this time, Simon met Fox Feature Syndicate comics artist Jack Kirby, with whom he would soon have a storied collaboration lasting a decade-and-a-half. Speaking at a 1998 San Diego Comic-Con panel, Simon recounted the meeting:

> I had a suit and Jack thought that was really nice. He'd never seen a comic book artist with a suit before. The reason I had a suit was that my father was a tailor. Jack's father was a tailor too, but he made pants! Anyway, I was doing freelance work and I had a little office in New York about ten blocks from DC [Comics]' and Fox [Feature Syndicate]'s offices, and I was working on Blue Bolt for Funnies, Inc. So, of course, I loved Jack's work and the first time I saw it I couldn't believe what I was seeing. He asked if we could do some freelance work together. I was delighted and I took him over to my little office. We worked from the second issue of Blue Bolt ...[15]

and remained a team across the next two decades. In the early 2000s, original art for an unpublished, five-page Simon and Kirby collaboration titled "Daring Disc", which may predate the duo's Blue Bolt, surfaced. Simon published the story in the 2003 updated edition of his autobiography, The Comic Book Makers,[16] co-authored with his son, Jim.[17]

After leaving Fox and landing at pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman's Timely Comics (the future Marvel Comics), where Simon became the company's first editor,[18] the Simon and Kirby team created the seminal patriotic hero Captain America.[19] Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), going on sale in December 1940[20] – a year before the bombing of Pearl Harbor but already showing the hero punching Hitler in the jaw[21] – sold nearly one million copies.[22] They remained on the hit series as a team through issue #10, and were established as a notable creative force in the industry.[23] After the first issue was published, Simon asked Kirby to join the Timely staff as the company's art director.[24]

Despite the success of the Captain America character, Simon felt Goodman was not paying the pair the promised percentage of profits, and so sought work for the two of them at National Comics,[25] (later named DC Comics). Simon and Kirby negotiated a deal that would pay them a combined $500 a week, as opposed to the $75 and $85 they respectively earned at Timely.[26] Fearing that Goodman would not pay them if he found out they were moving to National, the pair kept the deal a secret while they continued producing work for the company.[27] At some point during this time, the duo also produced Fawcett Comics' Captain Marvel Adventures #1 (1941), the first complete comic book starring Captain Marvel following the character's run as star of the superhero anthology Whiz Comics.[28]

Kirby and Simon spent their first weeks at National trying to devise new characters while the company sought how best to utilize the pair.[29] After a few failed editor-assigned ghosting assignments, National's Jack Liebowitz told them to "just do what you want". The pair then revamped the Sandman feature in Adventure Comics and created the superhero Manhunter.[30][31] In July 1942 they began the Boy Commandos feature. The ongoing "kid gang" series Boy Commandos, launched later that same year, was the team's first National feature to graduate into its own title.[32] It sold over a million copies a month, becoming National's third best-selling title.[33] They also scored a hit with the homefront kid-gang team, the Newsboy Legion in Star-Spangled Comics.[34] In 2010, DC Comics writer and executive Paul Levitz observed that "Like Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creative team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby was a mark of quality and a proven track record."[35]

Harry Mendryk, art restorer on Titan Books' Simon and Kirby series of hardcover collections, believes Simon used the pseudonym Glaven on at least two covers during this time: those of Harvey Comics' Speed Comics #22 and Champ Comics #22 (both Sept. 1942),[36] though the Grand Comics Database does not independently confirm this.[37] Mendryk also believes that both Kirby and Simon used the pseudonym Jon Henri on a handful of other 1942 Harvey comics,[38] as does Who's Who in American Comic Books 1929–1999.[39]

Simon enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II.[40] He said in his 1990 autobiography that he was first assigned to the Mounted Beach Patrol at Long Beach Island, off Barnegat, New Jersey, for a year before being sent to boot camp near Baltimore, Maryland, for basic training.[41] Afterward, he reported for duty with the Combat Art Corps in Washington, D.C., part of the Coast Guard Public Information Division. He was stationed there in 1944 when he met New York Post sports columnist Milt Gross, who was with the Coast Guard Public Relations Unit, and the two became roommates in civilian housing.[42] Pursuant to his unit's mission to publicize the Coast Guard, Simon created a true-life Coast Guard comic book that DC agreed to publish, followed by versions syndicated nationally by Parents magazine in Sunday newspaper comics sections, under the title True Comics. This led to his being assigned to create a comic book aimed at driving Coast Guard recruitment. With Gross as his writer collaborator, Simon produced Adventure Is My Career, distributed by Street and Smith Publications for sale at newsstands.[43]

Returning to New York City after his discharge, Simon married Harriet Feldman,[44] the secretary to Harvey Comics' Al Harvey. The Simons and the now-married Kirby and his wife and first child moved to houses diagonally across from each other on Brown Street in Mineola, New York, on Long Island, where Simon and Kirby each worked from a home studio.[45]

### Crestwood, Black Magic and romance comics

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As superhero comics waned in popularity after the end of World War II, Simon and Kirby began producing a variety of stories in many genres. In partnership with Crestwood Publications, they developed the imprint Prize Group, through which they published Boys' Ranch and launched an early horror comic, the atmospheric and non-gory series Black Magic. The team also produced crime and humor comics, and are credited as well with publishing the first romance comics title, Young Romance, starting a successful trend.[46]

At the urging of a Crestwood salesman, Kirby and Simon launched their own comics company, Mainline Publications,[47][48] in late 1953 or early 1954, subletting space from their friend Al Harvey's Harvey Publications at 1860 Broadway.[7] Mainline published four titles: the Western Bullseye: Western Scout; the war comic Foxhole, since EC Comics and Atlas Comics were having success with war comics, but promoting theirs as being written and drawn by actual veterans; In Love, since their earlier romance comic Young Love was still being widely imitated; and the crime comic Police Trap, which claimed to be based on genuine accounts by law-enforcement officials. Bitter that Timely Comics' 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, had relaunched Captain America in a new series in 1954, Kirby and Simon created Fighting American. Simon recalled, "We thought we'd show them how to do Captain America".[49] While the comic book initially portrayed the protagonist as an anti-Communist dramatic hero, Simon and Kirby turned the series into a superhero satire with the second issue, in the aftermath of the Army-McCarthy hearings and the public backlash against the Red-baiting U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy.[47]

The partnership ended in 1955 with the comic book industry beset by self-imposed censorship, negative publicity, and a slump in sales. Simon "wanted to do other things and I stuck with comics," Kirby recalled in 1971. "It was fine. There was no reason to continue the partnership and we parted friends."[50] Simon turned primarily to advertising and commercial art, while dipping back into comics on occasion. The Simon and Kirby team reunited briefly in 1959 with Simon writing and collaborating on art for Archie Comics, where the duo updated the superhero the Shield in the two-issue The Double Life of Private Strong (June–Aug. 1959), and Simon created the superhero the Fly;[51] they went on to collaborate on the first two issues of The Adventures of the Fly (Aug.–Sept. 1959), and Simon and other artists, including Al Williamson, Jack Davis, and Carl Burgos, did four issues before Simon moved on to work in commercial art.[52]

### Silver Age of Comics and later

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Through the 1960s, Simon produced promotional comics for the advertising agency Burstein and Newman, becoming art director of Burstein, Phillips and Newman from 1964 to 1967.[53] Concurrently, in 1960, he founded the satirical magazine Sick, a competitor of Mad magazine, and edited and produced material for it for over a decade.[54]

During this period, known to fans and historians as the Silver Age of Comic Books, Simon and Kirby again reteamed for Harvey Comics in 1966, updating Fighting American for a single issue (Oct. 1966). Simon, as owner, packager, and editor, also helped launch Harvey's original superhero line, with Unearthly Spectaculars #1–3 (Oct. 1965 – March 1967) and Double-Dare Adventures #1–2 (Dec. 1966 – March 1967), the latter of which introduced the influential writer-artist Jim Steranko to comics.[55]

In 1968, Simon created the two-issue DC Comics series Brother Power the Geek, about a mannequin given a semblance of life who wanders philosophically through 1960s hippie culture.[56] Superman editor Mort Weisinger harbored an admitted dislike for the hippie subculture of the 1960s and felt that Simon portrayed them too sympathetically which helped to bring a quick end to the title.[57] Simon and artist Jerry Grandenetti then created DC's four-issue Prez (Sept. 1973 – March 1974), about America's first teen-age president[55][58] and the three-issue Champion Sports (Nov. 1973 – March 1974).[55] That same year, Simon returned to the romance genre as editor of Young Romance and Young Love and oversaw a Black Magic reprint series.[59]

Simon and Kirby teamed one last time later that year, with Simon writing the first issue (Winter 1974) of a six-issue new incarnation of the Sandman.[60] Simon and Grandenetti then created the Green Team: Boy Millionaires in the DC anthology series 1st Issue Special #2 (May 1975),[61] and the freakish Outsiders in 1st Issue Special #10 (Jan. 1976).[55]

In 1999, Joe Simon regained the rights to the Fly and Lancelot Strong thanks to copyright termination.[62][63]

### 21st century

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In the 2000s, Simon turned to painting and marketing reproductions of his early comic book covers. He appeared in various news media in 2007 in response to Marvel Comics' announced "death" of Captain America in Captain America vol. 5, #25 (March 2007), stating, "It's a hell of a time for him to go. We really need him now".[64][65]

For a concept called ShieldMaster (1998), created by Jim Simon, Joe Simon provided prototype art. Shieldmaster, under the direction of Joe's son, Jim, was also published in the comic books Futura and Étranges Aventures. A graphic novel format ShieldMaster was published in 2015 by Future Retro Entertainment. ShieldMaster comics have also been published by Jim's son, Jesse Simon.

Simon is among the interview subjects in Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle, a three-hour documentary narrated by Liev Schreiber that premiered posthumously on PBS in October 2013.[66]

Simon's grandchildren attended the Los Angeles premiere of Captain America: The First Avenger and phoned Simon from the red carpet when his name was announced as the creator of the character.[67] Though not present at the premiere, Joe Simon got to see Captain America: The First Avenger before he died in December 2011.[67]

In 2024, Shieldmaster encounters several Joe Simon characters in ShieldMaster: Blast to Past, a one-shot with Shieldmaster traveling to the year 1963 and encountering several characters created or co-created by Joe Simon such as Fighting, American, The Fly, Lancelot Strong, Comics. Stuntman and Captain 3-D.[63]

## Personal life

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Simon was married to Harriet Feldman. The Simons had two sons and three daughters.[68]

Simon died in New York City on December 14, 2011, at the age of 98, after a brief illness.[68][69][70]

Marvel Comics dedicated Avenging Spider-Man #5 to Simon.[71]

## Awards

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* Inkpot Award, 1998[72]
* Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, 1999[73]
* Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame, 2014.[74]

## References

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1. ^ a b c Simon, Joe (2011). Joe Simon: My Life in Comics. London, United Kingdom: Titan Books. p. 12\. ISBN 978-1-84576-930-7. ""I ... was born in 1913 – on October 11 – in Rochester's Strong Memorial Hospital. ... [My father] had a cousin name Hymie. ... So when my mother gave birth to me, my father completed the birth certificate without consulting her, and named me 'Hymie Simon.' ... [my mother] flipped. Turns out she wanted me named after her brother, Joseph. ... At least if it had been 'Hyman' Simon, she said, it would have rhymed. ... No, she just called me Joseph, and after a while it stuck. Yet that's not what my birth certificate says. To this day it hasn't been corrected, not Social Security-wise, [war-]veteran-[records]-wise, or for anything else. ... We never had middle names in my family, either. ... But I took the 'H' from Hymie and I made it into Henry. ...". Note: Some sources erroneously give 1915 as birth year, including:
* "Joe Simon". Lambiek Comiclopedia. Archived from the original on November 3, 2016. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
* Bails, Jerry; Ware, Hames (eds.). "Simon, Joe". Who's Who in American Comic Books 1929–1999. Archived from the original on May 11, 2007. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
2. ^ Simon, 2011, p. 10
3. ^ Commrie, Anne (1975). Something about the Author, Volume 7. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale. p. 192\. ISBN 0810300621. Retrieved May 9, 2016. "Born October 11, 1913, in Rochester, N.Y.; son of Harry (a tailor) and Rose (Kurland) Simon"
4. ^ a b Simon, 2011, p. 11
5. ^ Simon, 2011, p. 9
6. ^ Simon, Joe; with Simon, Jim (1990). The Comic Book Makers. Crestwood/II Publications. p. 22\. ISBN 1-887591-35-4. Reissued (Vanguard Productions, 2003) ISBN 1-887591-35-4. Page numbers refer to 1990 edition.
7. ^ a b Simon, 1990, p. 24
8. ^ Simon, 1990, pp. 26–27
9. ^ Simon, 1990, p. 28
10. ^ Simon, 1990, p. 29
11. ^ Simon, 1990, pp. 29 & 31
12. ^ a b Simon, 1990, p. 31
13. ^ Simon 2011, pp. 61–64.
14. ^ Confirmed by Joe Simon to Simon and Kirby art restorer Harry Mendryk, cited at Daring Mystery Comics #2 Archived February 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at AtlasTales.com; Daring Mystery Comics #2 Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the Grand Comics Database; and Mendryk, Harry (July 8, 2006). "Art by Joe Simon, Chapter 7, Glaven". Simon & Kirby (column), Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center. Archived from the original on November 18, 2008. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
15. ^ "More Than Your Average Joe". Jack Kirby Collector. No. 25\. (excerpts from Joe Simon's panels at 1998 San Diego Comic-Con International) TwoMorrows Publishing. August 1999. Archived from the original on November 30, 2010.
16. ^ Simon, Joe; with Simon, Jim (2003). The Comic Book Makers. Vanguard Productions. p. 23\. ISBN 1-887591-35-4.
17. ^ "The comic book makers | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved February 23, 2025.
18. ^ Sanderson, Peter; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2008). "1939". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 11\. ISBN 978-0756641238. "Martin Goodman hired writer/artist Joe Simon to be Timely's first Editor-in-Chief in late 1939." `{{cite book}}`: `|first2=` has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
19. ^ Sanderson "1940s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 18: "Simon and Kirby decided to create another hero who was their response to totalitarian tyranny abroad."
20. ^ Markstein, Don (2010). "Captain America". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved April 9, 2012. "Captain America was the first successful character published by the company that would become Marvel Comics to debut in his own comic. Captain America Comics #1 was dated March, 1941."[permanent dead link‍]
21. ^ Daniels, Les (1991). Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics. New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams. p. 37\. ISBN 978-0-8109-3821-2. "The cover of Captain America #1 which showed the new hero, dressed in red, white and blue, punching Adolf Hitler in the face. The date was March 1941."
22. ^ Per researcher Keif Fromm, Alter Ego vol. 3, #49, p. 4 (caption)
23. ^ Jones, Gerard. Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book (Basic Books, 2004; trade paperback ISBN 0-465-03657-0), p. 200
24. ^ Ro, Ronin (2004). Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and the American Comic Book Revolution. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 21\. ISBN 1-58234-345-4.
25. ^ Ro, p. 25
26. ^ Ro, p. 25–26
27. ^ Ro, p. 29
28. ^ Captain Marvel Adventures #1 Archived December 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine at the Grand Comics Database
29. ^ Ro, p. 28
30. ^ Ro, p. 30
31. ^ Wallace, Daniel; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1940s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 41\. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. "Hot properties Joe Simon and Jack Kirby joined DC ... [and] after taking over the Sandman and Sandy, the Golden Boy feature in Adventure Comics #72, the writer and artist team turned their attentions to Manhunter with issue #73." `{{cite book}}`: `|first2=` has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
32. ^ Wallace "1940s" in Dolan, p. 41 "The inaugural issue of Boy Commandos represented Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's first original title since they started at DC (though the characters had debuted earlier that year in Detective Comics #64.)"
33. ^ Ro, p. 32
34. ^ Wallace "1940s" in Dolan, p. 41 "Joe Simon and Jack Kirby took their talents to a second title with Star-Spangled Comics, tackling both the Guardian and the Newsboy Legion in issue #7."
35. ^ Levitz, Paul (2010). "The Golden Age 1938–1956". 75 Years of DC Comics The Art of Modern Mythmaking. Cologne, Germany: Taschen. p. 131\. ISBN 9783836519816.
36. ^ Mendryk, "Art by Joe Simon, Chapter 7, Glaven"
37. ^ Speed Comics #22 Archived October 3, 2010, at the Wayback Machine and Champ Comics #22 Archived October 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at the Grand Comics Database
38. ^ Mendryk, Harry (July 4, 2006). "Art by Joe Simon, Chapter 6, Jon Henri". Simon & Kirby (column), Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center. Archived from the original on June 12, 2011. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
39. ^ "Henri, Jon". Who's Who in American Comic Books 1929–1999. Archived from the original on May 11, 2007. This source nonetheless gives spelling "Jon Henery" at Simon's entry, cited in footnote 1.
40. ^ Simon, 1990, p. 69
41. ^ Simon, 1990, pp. 70–71
42. ^ Simon, 1990, pp. 71–72
43. ^ Simon, 1990, pp. 73 & 75
44. ^ Shapiro, T. Rees (December 15, 2011). "Joe Simon, co-creator of the Captain America comics, dies at 98". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013.
45. ^ Simon, 1990, pp. 84–85
46. ^ Evanier, Mark (2008). Kirby: King of Comics. New York: Harry N. Abrams, pp. 72, 80. ISBN 978-0-8109-9447-8.
47. ^ a b Ro, p. 54 Archived June 16, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
48. ^ Beerbohm, Robert Lee (August 1999). "The Mainline Story". Jack Kirby Collector (25). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing. Archived from the original on May 26, 2011. Retrieved March 26, 2008.
49. ^ Ro, p. 52 Archived May 6, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
50. ^ "'I Created an Army of Characters, and Now My Connection with Them Is Lost". interview, The Great Electric Bird radio show, WNUR-FM, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. May 14, 1971. Transcribed in The Nostalgia Journal (27) August 1976. Reprinted in Milo, George, ed. (2002). The Comics Journal Library, Volume One: Jack Kirby. Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics Books. p. 16\. ISBN 1-56097-466-4.
51. ^ Groth, Gary (February 1990). "Joe Simon Interviewed". The Comics Journal (134). Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics Books: 106.
52. ^ Evanier, Mark (2014). The Art of the Simon and Kirby Studio. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-1419711602.
53. ^ Bails, Jerry; Ware, Hames (eds.). "Simon, Joe". Who's Who in American Comic Books 1929–1999. Archived from the original on May 11, 2007. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
54. ^ Simon 2011, pp. 214–216.
55. ^ a b c d Joe Simon at the Grand Comics Database
56. ^ McAvennie, Michael "1960s" in Dolan, p. 131 "The medium didn't appear to be ready for Brother Power, the Geek, envisioned by writer Joe Simon and artist Al Bare. Simon's mod re-imagining of Frankenstein's monster ... a mannequin turned reclusive hero-philosopher was a trip that lasted only two issues."
57. ^ Markstein, Don (2007). "Brother Power, the Geek". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on July 19, 2014.
58. ^ McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 156 "Teenage President of the United States Prez Rickard didn't enjoy a long term in comics. However scripter Joe Simon and artist Jerry Grandenetti gave him plenty to tackle in four issues."
59. ^ (editor)&type=editor Joe Simon at the Grand Comics Database
60. ^ McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 158 "The legendary tandem of writer Joe Simon and artist/editor Jack Kirby reunited for a one-shot starring the Sandman ... Despite the issue's popularity, it would be Simon and Kirby's last collaboration."
61. ^ Markstein, Don (2009). "The Green Team". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on May 27, 2024.
62. ^ "The fly / By Joe Simon & Archie Comics Publications, Inc. B826394 (1959)..." cocatalog.loc.gov. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
63. ^ a b Bennett, Eric N. (April 3, 2024). "REVIEWS: Shieldmaster: Blast to the Past #1". First Comics News. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
64. ^ "Death to 'America': Comic-book hero killed off". Today.com. Associated Press. March 8, 2007. Archived from the original on July 22, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
65. ^ "Comic hero Captain America dies". BBC News. March 8, 2007. Archived from the original on August 8, 2010.
66. ^ Logan, Michael (October 14, 2013). "The Comics' Real Heroes". TV Guide. p. 27.
67. ^ a b Margulies, Megan (Joe Simon granddaughter) (March 5, 2014). "Captain America Lives On: Remembering Joe Simon". Bleeding Cool. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
68. ^ a b Sacks, Ethan (December 15, 2011). "Joe Simon dead at 98: Created Captain America with Jack Kirby". Daily News. New York City. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014.
69. ^ Moore, Matt (December 15, 2011). "Iconic writer Joe Simon, Co-creator of Captain America, Dies". Associated Press via USA Today. Archived from the original on December 17, 2011.
70. ^ Dobuzinskis, Alex (December 15, 2011). "Captain America co-creator Joe Simon dies at 98". Reuters. Archived from the original on December 16, 2011.
71. ^ "Best Shots Rapid Reviews: Aquaman, Avenging Spider-Man, More". Newsarama. March 29, 2012. Archived from the original on September 17, 2015.
72. ^ "Inkpot Award Winners". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012.
73. ^ "1990s". San Diego Comic-Con. December 2, 2012. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved December 16, 2012.
74. ^ "2014 Inkwell Awards Winners". Inkwell Awards. Archived from the original on July 5, 2015.

## External links

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* Joe Simon at IMDb
* Joe Simon Studio official site. Archived from the original on March 24. 2012.
* SimonComics.com / Simon Entertainment Properties. Archived from the original on December 26, 2014.
* Wilonsky, Robert. "Custody Battle: Marvel Comics isn't going to give up Captain America without a fight", The Pitch, April 19, 2001. WebCitation archive.
* Simon, Joe. "The Creator of Captain America Meets the Creator of the Human Torch", Alter Ego #36, May 2004
* Hamilton, Sue (2007). Comic Book Creators: Joe Simon (ebook). Edina, Minnesota: ABDO Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59928-300-5.
* Evanier, Mark (July 19, 2007). "Semi-Old Joes". POV Online (column). Archived from the original on June 29, 2011.

Preceded by

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|  Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief
1939–1941  | Succeeded by

Stan Lee

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Preceded by

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|  Captain America Comics writer/artist
(with Jack Kirby)
1941–1942  | Succeeded by

Stan Lee (as writer)
Al Avison (as artist)

* v
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Captain America

* Joe Simon
* Jack Kirby

Characters|

* Steve Rogers
* Bucky Barnes
* Sam Wilson
* Enemies
* Alternative versions of Captain America

Publications|

| Ongoing|

* Captain America Comics
* Tales of Suspense
* Captain America
* vol. 5
* Captain America and the Falcon

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Limited|

* Adventures of Captain America
* Captain America and Nick Fury: Blood Truce
* Captain America and Nick Fury: The Otherworld War
* Truth: Red, White & Black
* Captain America and the Falcon (2004)
* Captain America: White

Storylines|

* "The Strange Death of Captain America"
* "Secret Empire" (1974)
* "The Captain"
* "Man and Wolf"
* "The Winter Soldier"
* "Civil War"
* "The Death of Captain America"
* "Fallen Son"
* "Reborn"
* "Secret Empire" (2017)

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| Feature films|

* Captain America (1944)
* Captain America (1979)
* Captain America II: Death Too Soon
* Captain America (1990)

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Marvel Cinematic Universe|

* The First Avenger
* soundtrack
* The Winter Soldier
* soundtrack
* Civil War
* soundtrack
* The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
* Brave New World
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Video games|

* Captain America in: The Doom Tube of Dr. Megalomann
* The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom's Revenge!
* Captain America and The Avengers
* Captain America: Super Soldier
* Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra

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* Captain America's shield
* Iron Patriot
* Rogers: The Musical
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Jack Kirby

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Marvel Comics|

* 2001: A Space Odyssey
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DC Comics|

* 1st Issue Special
* Agent Axis
* Anti-Life Equation
* Apokolips
* Darkseid
* DeSaad
* Devilance
* Doctor Bedlam
* Female Furies
* Bernadeth
* Lashina
* Stompa
* Glorious Godfrey
* Granny Goodness
* Kalibak
* Kanto
* Mantis
* Steppenwolf
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* Atlas
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* Bruno Mannheim
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* Red Ryan
* Crazy Quilt
* Dan Turpin
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* Dubbilex
* Etrigan the Demon
* Fourth World
* Funky Flashman
* Global Peace Agency
* OMAC
* Guardian
* House of Secrets
* Infinity-Man
* Intergang
* Kamandi
* Klarion the Witch Boy
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* Paul Kirk
* Mark Shaw
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* Mother Box
* Mr. Scarlet
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* Project Cadmus
* Sandman (Garrett Sanford)
* Shilo Norman
* Sonny Sumo
* Source
* Star Spangled Comics
* Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen
* Super Powers
* Weird Mystery Tales

Other|

* Black Magic
* Boys' Ranch
* Captain 3-D
* Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers
* Destroyer Duck
* The Double Life of Private Strong
* Fighting American
* The Fly
* Headline Comics (For The American Boy)
* Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters
* Justice Traps the Guilty
* The Kirbyverse
* My Date Comics
* Our Fighting Forces
* Secret City Saga
* Silver Star
* Sky Masters
* Street Code
* Young Love
* Young Romance

Television work|

* Centurions
* Goldie Gold and Action Jack
* Mister T
* Thundarr the Barbarian

Related articles|

* Kirby Krackle
* Stan Lee
* Joe Simon
* Mainline Publications
* Kirby: Genesis
* Kirby: King of Comics

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Lines and imprints|

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* Marvel Press
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Defunct|

* Amalgam
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Reprints|

* Marvel Epic Collections
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* Marvel Premier Collection
* Spider-Man collected editions
* Daredevil collected editions
* Marvel Masterworks
* Marvel Complete Collections
* Marvel Premiere Classic
* Essential Marvel

Predecessors|

* Timely Comics
* Magazine Management
* 1970s
* Atlas Comics
* Acquired characters
* Malibu Comics
* Aircel Comics
* Eternity Comics
* Adventure Publications

Editors-in-chief /
executive editors|

* Joe Simon
* Stan Lee
* Vincent Fago
* Roy Thomas
* Len Wein
* Marv Wolfman
* Gerry Conway
* Archie Goodwin
* Jim Shooter
* Tom DeFalco
* Bob Harras
* Joe Quesada
* Axel Alonso
* C. B. Cebulski

Adaptations|

* Novels
* Films
* Television series
* Video games
* Role-playing games
* Unproduced adaptations
* films
* imprint films
* television

Related|

* Marvel Comics rating system
* Marvel No-Prize
* Marvel Super Hero Island
* People
* Funnies Inc.
* Kimble v. Marvel
* Walt Disney Studios
* Marvel Studios
* Marvel Entertainment

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Prize Comics

Series|

* Black Magic
* Fighting American
* Frankenstein Comics
* Headline Comics
* Justice Traps The Guilty
* Sick
* Young Love
* Young Romance

People|

* Joe Simon
* Jack Kirby
* Steve Ditko
* Will Elder
* Dick Briefer
* Leonard Starr
* Mort Meskin
* Joe Maneely
* John Severin
* Carmine Infantino
* Bruno Premiani
* Dick Ayers
* George Klein
* Jack Abel
* Ed Winiarski

Characters|

* Atomic Man
* Black Owl
* Green Lama
* Yank & Doodle

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Inkpot Award (1990s)

1990|

* Karen Berger
* Bob Burden
* Tom DeFalco
* William Gaines
* Jim Henson
* Randy and Jean-Marc Lofficier
* Grant Morrison
* Bob Overstreet
* Mary Reynante
* Bob Schreck
* Ken Steacy
* Rick Sternbach
* Charles Vess

1991|

* Alicia Austin
* Clive Barker
* Dan Barry
* Dan DeCarlo
* Creig Flessel
* Neil Gaiman
* Ted "Dr. Seuss" Geisel
* Keith Giffen
* George Gladir
* Joe Haldeman
* Lynn Johnston
* Carol Kalish
* Don Maitz
* Sheldon Moldoff
* Steve Oliff
* Julie Roloff
* Stan Sakai

1992|

* Carina Burns-Chenelle
* Bob Chapman
* Francis Ford Coppola
* Robin Doig
* Alan Grant
* Bill Griffith
* Ray Harryhausen
* Marc Hempel
* Jim Lee
* Milo Manara
* Scott McCloud
* Todd McFarlane
* Rowena Morrill
* Diane Noomin
* Louise Simonson
* Dick Sprang
* Vernor Vinge
* Mark Wheatley

1993|

* Jim Aparo
* Gary Carter
* Phil Foglio
* Robert Goodwin
* Ferd Johnson
* Don Martin
* Dave McKean
* Clydene Nee
* Paul Norris
* Paul Power
* P. Craig Russell
* Mark Schultz
* Vincent Sullivan
* Michael Whelan
* Roger Zelazny

1994|

* Mike Carlin
* Paul Chadwick
* Al Feldstein
* Stan Goldberg
* Roberta Gregory
* Chad Grothkopf
* Jerry Ordway
* Bud Plant
* Mike Richardson
* John Romita, Jr.
* Richard Rowell
* Lucius Shepard
* Mickey Spillane
* J. Michael Straczynski
* Rumiko Takahashi

1995|

* Roger Corman
* Greg Hildebrandt (Brothers Hildebrandt)
* Tim Hildebrandt (Brothers Hildebrandt)
* Ryoichi Ikegami
* Irv Novick
* Joe Sinnott

1996|

* Donna Barr
* Mort Drucker
* Joe Giella
* Jim Mooney
* Kurt Schaffenberger
* François Schuiten
* David Siegel

1997|

* Dick Ayers
* Steve Bissette
* Terry Brooks
* Bob Haney
* Russ Heath
* Carol Lay
* Michael Moorcock
* Janice Tobias
* George Tuska

1998|

* John Broome
* Eddie Campbell
* Nick Cardy
* David Glanzer
* Fred Guardineer
* Lorenzo Mattotti
* Paul S. Newman
* John Severin
* Joe Simon
* Naoko Takeuchi
* Mark Yturralde

1999|

* Tom Batiuk
* Chuck Cuidera
* Samuel R. Delany
* Arnold Drake
* Sam Glanzman
* Larry Gonick
* Irwin Hasen
* Sue Lord

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