Joe Simon, comic artist who created Captain America with his partner Jack Kirby, died at the age of 98 years. The news was delivered by the son of Simon, Thursday (15/12/2011) and has been confirmed Marvel Comics.
Simon and Jack Kirby created Captain America for Timely Comics (predecessor of Marvel Comics) in March 1941, several months before the attack on Pearl Harbor and American entry into World War II.
The cover of Captain America #1 featuring the famous hero punching Adolf Hitler in the jaw. Captain America became a hit with a fast time, and sold nearly a million copies.
During World War II, Captain America was a rival hero Superman in popularity with American troops overseas. Similarly, reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Friday (12/16/2011).
Joe Simon Simon Hymie was born in Rochester, New York in 1913 ago. In his twenties, he worked as an editorial cartoonist for the newspaper before settling in New York City in the late 1930s, where he met Kirby when both are trying to break into the comic industry.
Besides working in comics, Simon worked in advertising, especially as artistic director for Burstein, Phillips, and Newman 1964-1967.
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