How could Captain America not have been a reaction to the times. The Nazis were a menace, an evil in the world. The US hadn't yet entered the war when Jack and I did Captain America, so maybe he was our way at lashing out against the Nazi menace.
"Joseph Henry "Joe" Simon" was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s–1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.
With his partner, artist Jack Kirby, he co-created Captain America, one of comics' most enduring superheroes, and the team worked extensively on such features at DC Comics as the 1940s Sandman (Wesley Dodds)/Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy, and co-created the Newsboy Legion, the Boy Commandos, and Manhunter (comics)/Manhunter. Simon and Kirby creations for other comics publishers include Boys' Ranch, Fighting American and the Fly (Archie Comics)/Fly. In the late 1940s, the duo created the field of romance comics, and were among the earliest pioneers of horror fiction/horror comics. Simon, who went on to work in advertising and commercial art, also founded the satire/satirical magazine Sick (magazine)/Sick in 1960, remaining with it for a decade. He briefly returned to DC Comics in the 1970s.
Simon was inducted into the List of Eisner Award winners#The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame/Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1999.
More Joe Simon on Wikipedia.In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.
When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.
Both of us couldn't let a man die.
The blood was like paint, just pouring out of him. We were just panicking. We knew the options were limited.
He is a strong advocate for the ABC House, putting on a benefit shooting match which raises thousands of dollars for the house.
Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.
Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.
I like The Geek, a rag-doll pretending to be human. The Prez, an adolescent in the White House, just like the current occupant.
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