Archive for May, 2006
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
The End of Simon & Kirby, Chapter 8, If At First You Don’t Succeed
Alarming Tales #1 (September 1957) by Joe Simon
Previously in the End of Simon and Kirby, Joe and Jack’s own comic publishing company failed after just a short time. Another source of income for S&K was the comics they produced for Prize. But that company would also have difficulties and would cancel a number of titles. […]
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Sunday, May 28th, 2006
The End of Simon & Kirby, Chapter 7, On His Own
Yellow Claw #2 (December 1956) “Concentrate On Chaos” by Jack Kirby
Previously in the End of Simon and Kirby started their own publishing company in August 1954 which unfortunately would fail after April 1955. The pair received some income from having Charlton published remaining issues from the now defunct Mainline comics. They also produced work for […]
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Friday, May 26th, 2006
The End of Simon & Kirby, Chapter 6, A Friend’s Romance
Love Problems #38 (March 1956) by Jack Kirby
Previously in the End of Simon and Kirby we saw Simon and Kirby start Mainline, their own publishing company. When unfortunately Mainline failed they turned to the poorly paying Charlton to publish the same titles for a couple of issues. Then Harvey Comics would release three issues of […]
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
A Tale Twice Told
I’m busy tonight working on the next chapter to The End of Simon & Kirby. But I thought I would point out a happy coincidence that occurred in two chapters. I’ll provide links but chances are both chapters are on this page, so it might be easier to just scroll down. In Chapter 2 I included […]
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
The End of Simon & Kirby, Chapter 5, The Return To Romance
Young Love #55 (March 1954) “Love War” by Jack Kirby
Previously in the End of Simon and Kirby we saw the launch of Fighting American for Prize followed shortly by the creation of Mainline, Simon and Kirby’s own publishing company. Although Simon and Kirby continued to produce romance comics for Prize, they stopped including work penciled […]
