Archive for July, 2009
Friday, July 31st, 2009
DC’s New Book, The Sandman by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby
Joe Simon gave me a copy of DC’s new book “The Sandman by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby”. Amazon lists the release date as August 18, but it may be in comic books stores sooner then that. Simon and Kirby worked on Sandman (along with Manhunter, the Newsboy Legion, and Boy Commandos) just after leaving [...]
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Art of Romance, Chapter 18, Meskin Takes Over
(February 1952 – April 1952: Young Romance #42 – #44, Young Love #30 – #32)
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, July 24th, 2009
Joe Simon’s Hot Stuff
Zippy #1 (May 1941), art by Joe Simon
When Joe Simon was young he tried his hand in a number of different types of art work; political cartoons, sport illustration, portraits, story illustration, and oh yeah comic books. One art media Joe did not do was adult humor, that is except for the cover of Zippy [...]
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
Little Shop of Horrors, Chapter 3, The Same Old Gang
(October – December 1951: Black Magic #7 – #8)
During the period covered in this chapter, along with the bimonthly Black Magic, Simon and Kirby were producing two monthly romance titles (Young Romance and Young Love). Not the largest work load for the prolific duo but apparently all the titles were doing well. Since Simon and [...]
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
The Simon and Kirby Superheroes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Diego Comic-Con International
July 22, 2009
THE SIMON & KIRBY SUPERHEROES
Massive Collection Scheduled for 2010
Titan Books to release comprehensive 480-page edition
of fully-restored and previously unpublished superhero stories
by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby
Following the success of The Best of Simon and Kirby, the first volume in The Official Simon and Kirby Library, Titan [...]
