Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The Wide Angle Scream, The Pinup
Towards the end of 1950 Simon and Kirby had some hit titles all published by Prize. For the crime genre there were Headline and Justice Traps the Guilty. Having two titles in the same genre is always a sign of a success. More important would be the Young Romance and Young Love titles for the […]
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Daring Mystery and Joe Simon BK (Before Kirby)
To achieve an understanding of Joe Simon as a comic book artist it is important to study some of the work that he did prior to meeting Jack Kirby. Unfortunately Joe’s initial efforts are from the early days of the golden age of comics so the comics that Simon’s art first appeared in are now […]
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Second Anniversary and the Red Raven Contest
Red Raven Comics #1 (August 1940)
In a few weeks this Simon and Kirby Blog will be reach its second anniversary, my first post was on March 17, 2006. When I started blogging I really had no idea how long I would keep at it. Actually I still do not know but I have somehow managed […]
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
The Art of Romance, Chapter 3, The Field No Longer Their’s Alone
(Young Romance #5 - #8)
In this chapter I will be writing about the next four issues of Young Romance (#5 to #8). For the most part this set is a continuation of the earlier issues. The main artists were same; Jack Kirby, Bill Draut and the team of Jerry Robinson and Mort Meskin. A couple […]
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
The Wide Angle Scream, It’s a Crime
With the early demise of the Stuntman and Boy Explorer titles, Simon and Kirby’s next important project would be crime anthologies. Perhaps mindful that during the comic book glut it was previously existing titles that made it into the newsstand racks, Prize Comic’s Headline would be converted into a crime genre comic with issue #23 […]
