http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby © 2006, 2007 & 2008 Harry Mendryk. Unless otherwise marked, all images are my own restorations. Further some of the images have copyrights by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby or Joe Simon alone. I am fortunate that Joe Simon has allowed me to also include some previously unpublished material. Please do not copy from this blog without permission. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:53:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Joe Simon's personal collection includes two large illustration boards of an unfinished syndication proposal, Tiger 21. The art on each board is composed of a long title section (empty on one of them) and three rows of panels each row nominally with four panels. They therefore were intended for use ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1641 Recently Lawrence Genalo, Joe Genalo's son, left a comment to my post The Lineup. He mentioned that the center man in the lineup of the comic cover, who Joe Simon had identified as Joe Genalo, did not look like his father. Simon and Kirby studio (probably from 1951 or 1952). Left ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1640 Ger Apeldoorn's comments to chapter 9 of "It's A Crime" led me to search Prize Comics Western for examples of artists that had also worked for Simon and Kirby. Because of that search I have decide to post a rough outline of this western title. It is rough because I ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1629 Titan is now showing the book cover for the up-coming The Best of Simon and Kirby. http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1627 (Justice Traps the Guilty #9 - #12, Headline #35 - #38) This chapter will cover the Prize crime comics from the period March through November 1949. Both Justice Traps the Guilty and Headline were bimonthly titles. The other nominally crime title, Charlie Chan, had been discontinued after February. Simon and Kirby ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1615 Golden Lad #1 (July 1945) "The Heart of Gold", art by Mort Meskin Last week I provided some examples of early work by Mort Meskin. Now I would like to do the same for the period from after the war until Mort began working for Simon and Kirby. Actually I am ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1601 While my main interest in Mort Meskin concerns the art that he did for the Simon and Kirby studio, he also did some great work both before and after that. I thought a brief examination of his earlier efforts might prove interesting. Unfortunately I can only provide a very unbalanced ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1590 Today is Joe Simon's birthday, he is now 95 years old. My original plans were to get a picture of Joe on his birthday and post it late today. However when I talked to Joe he remarked that he had told his family he wanted nothing special to happen on ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1588 Strange #6 The French company, Organic Comix, has released a translated reprint of "Come into My Parlor" which was first published in Adventures of the Fly #1 (August 1959). This reprint was originally meant to be released earlier under a license agreement with Archie Comics. The only problem was Archie Comics ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1586 Harvey comics had a long history of reprinting stories. According to Joe Simon, any comic that included previously published material was supposed to be labeled as such but that Harvey generally ignored that restriction. At the time comic book readers typically lasted on a few years before giving up comics. ... http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1572