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Harvey Horror: Alarming Tales #3
Alarming Tales #3 (January 1958), pencils and inks by Joe Simon For a long time this cover was considered the work of Jack Kirby but it was actually created by Joe Simon. This confusion is...
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Daring Disc
Daring Disk, pencils by Jack Kirby Occasionally a title would be cancelled leaving Simon and Kirby with some unused art. Even then Joe and Jack would often rework the art so as not to waste the effort...
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Speaking of Art, Young Love #66
Young Love #66 unused cover (August 1955), pencils by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, inks by Bill Draut? and Jack Kirby Joe Simon’s collection includes the original art for an unused cover. I do not...
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Joe’s Birthday
Birthdays are supposed to be occasions of celebration, but for me this one carries a sad undertone. Today, October 11, Joe Simon would have been 99 years old. But his was a good life and his work...
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Speaking of Art, Joe Simon’s Hector Protector
Hector Protector was dressed all in green; Hector Protector was sent to the Queen. The Queen did not like him, Nor more did the King; So Hector Protector was sent back again. This, Like so many other...
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Joe Simon Cover Art for Harvey’s Pocket-Size Comics
I stopped posting on my Simon and Kirby blog over four years ago, primarily due to pressure from my day job and the restoration work I was doing for Titan’s Simon and Kirby Library. Work on Titan’s...
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Simon and Kirby Cover Art for Early Harvey Comics
Al Harvey must have been a great salesman. With the failure of his concept of pocket-sized comic books you would have thought that would have been the end of Harvey’s publishing career. Instead not...
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Lettering S&K Chapter 1 The Beginning
It has been about eight years ago that I ended regularly posting to my Simon and Kirby Blog. It was a sudden ending not brought on by the lack of subject matter but rather a lack of free time. When I...
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Lettering S&K Chapter 2 Timely, DC and the War
Daring Mystery #6 (September 1940) “Introducing Marvel Boy” pages 1-3 by Howard Ferguson Joe Simon became the first editor for the company now called Marvel but referred to as Timely during the golden...
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Lettering S&K Chapter 3 Return from the War
Real Fact #1 (March 1946) “Pirate Or Patriot?” by Ray The first post-war Simon and Kirby features to be published were possibly done while Jack Kirby was still in the Army and certainly while Joe...
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