There are a number of reasons that simon and kirby work was so admired and influential but they can be summed up by saying joe and jack produced great comics. The company got out of the comic book business in 1963 and sold those titles to dc comics, where they became part of a reasonably popular romance line aimed at young girls. In the late 1940s, joe simon and jack kirby creators of captain ame. Jack kirby and joe simon brought their considerable comics creating skills to romance comics, now helpfully collected by fantagraphics in young romance. Joe simon and jack kirby are comics lennonmccartney dream duo. Getcomics is an awesome place to download dc, marvel, image, dark horse, dynamite, idw, oni, valiant, zenescope and many more comics only on getcomics. In such bestselling titles as young love and real western romances, simon and kirby delighted a generation of girls and women and probably a.
Romance comics and books page 2 of 6 comic book plus. If you enjoy our publications enough to download them, please pay for them. A list of key comic books written by simon and kirby provided by key collector comics. Joe simon and jack kirbys sensational romance comics continue in this sequel to 2012s acclaimed young. Within 18 months the duo began launching other titles such as young love, young brides and in love. In the late 1940s, joe simon and jack kirby creators of captain america set the comics world on fire with the creation of a new genre that resulted in some of. A click on the cover leads to the large cover view, a click on the issue number to the issue data. Buy the best of simon and kirby by joe simon, jack kirby, steve saffel isbn. Index status cover scan status 1 cover for 1 issue available. The best of simon and kirby s romance comics in pdf format.
Kirby uses his lifelike pencils to depict lichtensteinworthy heroines pining over these strongshouldered men who love them. Before romance comics, we never acknowledged that the. Simon and kirby moved quickly and in the same year young romance was published under the crestwood imprint, prize comics. Simon and kirby were a brand name during the golden age of comics. Jack kirby, joe simon and the dawn of the romance comic. This collection is a combination of the history of the kirbysimon romance comics from the early days of american comics in the 1930s and beyond and a. Young romance is a romantic comic book series created by joe simon and jack kirby for the crestwood publications imprint prize comics in 1947. Getcomics getcomics is an awesome place to download dc. Volume 1 released by gwandanaland comics on november 2017. Their fame began with their creation of captain america and continued for many years. The best of simon and kirby is a selection of stories restored from scans of the original comics. In such bestselling titles as young love and real western romances, simon and kirby delighted a generation of girls and women and probably a fair number of boys and men as well with hundreds of. Simon and kirby joe simon and jack kirby, their studio. Simon went on to create prez and beeman, kirby went on to create new gods and devil dinosaur among others, and prize comics wound up with young romance and young love.
The few genres in this book includes superheroes of course, scifi, war, romance, crime, western, horror and humour. It was an immediate hit, romance comics had arrived in a big way. Jack kirby and joe simon, creators of the romance comic. The series was notable for being packaged by the celebrated creative duo joe simon and jack kirby. Romance comics and books page 1 of 6 comic book plus.
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