Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
It’s Official, Titan to Publish Simon & Kirby
It’s Official, Titan to Publish Simon & Kirby
Yes it is official:
Titan Publishing Group Ltd. has announced the acquisition of worldwide rights to a range of books celebrating the work of Golden Age comics legend, Joe Simon, co-creator of Captain America. Throughout his career, Simon pioneered every aspect of the industry, from writing to art, editing […]
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Boys’ Ranch, Simon and Kirby’s Most Successful Failure, Part 2
Boys’ Ranch can conveniently be separated into two groups. The first three issues featured work by Kirby (with one exception), had three stories per issue, and the stories were longer. For the final issues there is much less use of Kirby, only two stories per issue, and shorter stories. Actually each final issue had a […]
2 Comments » - Posted in 2008/05, 5 Studio, Artists, Featured Work, Harvey, Kirby, Jack, Meskin, Mort, Periods, Stein, Marvin, Topic, z Archive by Harry
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Boys’ Ranch, Simon and Kirby’s Most Successful Failure, Part 1
I have long held off discussing Boys’ Ranch since with so much written about that title I feared I would have little new to add. Today Boys’ Ranch is probably one of the most popular Simon and Kirby post-war creations. There is good reason for this modern esteem as the title has much to commend […]
3 Comments » - Posted in 2008/05, 5 Studio, Artists, Featured Work, Harvey, Kirby, Jack, Meskin, Mort, Periods, Topic, z Archive by Harry
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Joe Simon and Timely Detective Magazines
Amazing Detective Cases vol. 1 no. 7 (November 1941) unidentified artist
Joe Simon was working as a freelance editor for Fox Comics for only a three month period before he left to take a position with Timely, still on a freelance basis. Some scholars have described Joe’s job at Timely as a General Editor but in […]
1 Comment » - Posted in 2008/05, 3 Timely, Artists, Avison, Al, Odds & Ends, Periods, Simon, Joe, Topic, z Archive by Harry
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
“Love on the Racks” the Most Important Book of Comics Ever
Okay there is a lot of hyperbole in my title. But think about it, at their height one out of four comic titles on the racks was a romance comic. Romance comics lasted about 30 years not counting a couple of failed retry attempts. Yes some types of comics were more enduring, but most were […]
