Thursday, December 15, 2011

RIP Joe Simon, 1913-2011



Joe Simon, co-creator of Captain America with Jack Kirby, has died.

Simon was one of the last "Golden Age" U.S. comics creators still living.

Very few of these men nand women are still with us.

A very short list:

Joe Kubert
Carmine Infantino
Stan Lee
Marc Swayze (co-created Mary Marvel)
Steve Ditko
Al Plastino
Fred Kida
Bob Fujitani
Leonard Starr
Ramona Fradon
Shelly Moldoff
Murphy Anderson
Irwin Hasen
John Severin
Jack Davis
Al Feldstein
Jules Feiffer
Allen Bellman (Timely/Capt. America artist)
and Canada's Gerald Lazare

3 comments:

  1. A few more, the first that comes to mind is Al Jaffee.

    Patrick Ford

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  2. Thanks Patrick! Anyone else?

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  3. Jaffee is huge in my house so he jumped to mind.
    Jack Katz?

    Patrick Ford

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