Archive for June, 2009
Friday, June 26th, 2009
The Best of Simon and Kirby
Amazon is still saying the release date is May 12, but “The Best of Simon and Kirby” has been appearing in comic book stores across the country. I have decided to keep a running post for reviews and such. Readers are encourage to leave comments as well. If this sounds like a shameless plug that [...]
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Art of Romance, Chapter 17, The Assistant
(November 1951 – January 1952: Young Romance #39 – #41, Young Love #27 – #29)
Number of Romance Titles 1947 – 1953 (the period covered in this chapter is shaded in blue)
There has not been much change in what the Simon and Kirby studio was producing which were two monthly romance titles and one bimonthly horror [...]
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
Technical Difficulties
Some of my readers may have found my blog unavailable from time to time, perhaps with a reference to a mysterious database error. Not only that but most of my sidebar is gone. This problem affects not just the Simon and Kirby Blog but the entire Jack Kirby Museum (sponsors of my blog). I cannot [...]
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
Art of Romance, Chapter 16, Someone Old and Someone New
(August 1951 – October 1951: Young Romance #36 – #38, Young Love #24 – #26)
Number of Romance Titles 1947 – 1952 (the period covered in this chapter is shaded in blue)
Despite the fact that today many fans point to Boys’ Ranch as one of Simon and Kirby best efforts it was at the time a [...]
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Joe Simon’s Northart Concepts Inc.
At the very start of this year I did a post on Joe Simon’s commercial work (Joe Simon’s Career in Advertising). I wrote it at the time because I thought that Joe’s work outside of comics would provide some insight into his career. Surprisingly I got some reader response requesting some more. Unfortunately I still [...]
