Archive for September, 2006
Friday, September 29th, 2006
The Wide Angle Scream, Stuntman #1
Stuntman #1 (April 1946) “House of Madness”
Enlarged view
When Joe Simon rejoined Jack Kirby after the war rather then just return to working for DC the two decided to produce their own comic books. They turned to Joe’s old friend Al Harvey to do the publication for Stuntman and Boy Explorers Comics. Now they had complete […]
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
The Art of Joe Simon, Appendix 2, Daring Adventures #12
Daring Adventures #12, (1963) by Joe Simon
If we exclude work done for the humor magazine Sick, Joe Simon’s comic book work is rather modest compared to that of Jack Kirby. Although very incomplete, the Checklist I provide is only about a couple of pages long while The Jack Kirby Checklist has 90 pages of fine […]
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
Not Simon, Daring Mystery Comics #4
Daring Mystery Comics #4 (May 1940)
Some sources, including the GCD, attribute the feature Trojak from Daring Mystery #4 to Joe Simon. Joe had started producing covers for Fox with cover dates of May. However that would not necessarily indicate that Simon was unavailable to produce stories for Timely. Joe would create Blue Bolt which started […]
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Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
Summoning Demons
Black Magic #8 (December 1951) by Jack Kirby
Simon and Kirby produced the earlier run of Black Magic (#1 to #33). During that period Jack would not necessarily draw stories for every issue but he did all the covers. This means that it was not too unusual for Kirby to draw a cover based on an […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
The Wide Angle Scream, Boy Commandos #2
Boy Commandos #2 (Spring 1943) “The Knights Wore Khaki”
Enlarged view
When it comes to double page splashes, there are great differences between Simon and Kirby’s DC years compared to their Timely period. Once the wide splash appeared in Captain America #6 it became a standard part of that title. At DC despite the fact that S&K […]
