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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Upcoming Comics - Joe Simon autobiography

Upcoming from Titan, who have been publishing some great golden age S&K reprints authorized by Joe Simon and the Jack Kirby Estate, Simon has a 256-page hardcover autobiography coming out. 


Joe Simon: The Man Behind the Comics

In his own words, this is the life of Joe Simon, one of the most important figures in comics history and half of the famous creative team Simon and Kirby. Joe Simon co-created Captain America, star of this summer’s anticipated movie blockbuster, and was the first Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics (then known as Timely, where he hired Stan Lee for his first job in comics). He recounts the near-death of comics, the Congressional witch-hunts of the 1950s, and the scramble for creators to survive. In the process he reveals what it was like to bring comics out of their infancy, as they became an American art form.

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