Archive for June, 2006
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Art by Joe Simon, Chapter 4, Footnote
Flash Gordon (7/3/38) by Alex Raymond
Stan Taylor has sent me some scans of panels from Flash Gordon done by Alex Raymond. Four of these have figures that so closely match work by Joe Simon as to leave no doubt that they were used as sources for swiping. I include one here because it is such [...]
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Sunday, June 25th, 2006
Art by Joe Simon, Chapter 4, Transition
Blue Bolt #1 (June 1940) “The Human Lightning Streak” by Joe Simon (signed)
Most of the work that Joe Simon penciled having cover dates from May to July of 1940 were the Fox covers discussed in the last chapter. But Joe was still a freelance artists and he did some work for other publishers. For Novelty [...]
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Speed #21 (August 1942)
Speed #21 (August 1942) by Joe Simon
The pointing hand of the clown looks like it was done by Kirby. But only that small detail does. The Japanese, the clown, Hitler and the gangster in a small circle cluelessly looking for Captain Freedom is just the sort of visual humor I come to expect from Joe [...]
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
Art by Joe Simon, Chapter 3, Working for the Fox
Fantastic Comics #7 (June 1940) by Joe Simon (signed)
Originally Fox comics were produced by the Eisner-Iger shop, with Lou Fine doing many of the covers. But the owner Victor Fox apparently had little scruples and asked the shop to come up with a superhero based on the popular Superman. Out of this work came Wonderman. [...]
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
Art By Joe Simon, Chapter 2, Footnote
During a visit I gave Joe Simon copies of my restoration of the two stories in Daring Mystery #2. He had completely forgotten about both of them. Before he had begun to look at them I mentioned that he had signed one of them using a different name. Joe stopped and said “I bet you I [...]
