Joe Simon

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1990
  • Latest Book:
    July 2020
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Marvel's Captain America

Captain America: The Classic Years (Jul-1998)
Captain America: Classic Years, Volume 2 (Jun-2000)
Captain America: The Legacy of Captain America (Apr-2011)
Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America Vol. 1 (Jul-2012)
Golden Age Captain America Omnibus Volume 1 (Mar-2014)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • The Comic Book Makers

    Filled with real-life anecdotes and insights, this is a history of the talented creators who brought us Superman, Captain America, Archie, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, and dozens of other comic book favourites, as well as the stories of the other peop...

  • Captain America: The Classic Years

    Marvel's Captain America

  • Captain America: Classic Years, Volume 2

    Marvel's Captain America

  • Joe Simon: Comic Book Makers

    In this book, original Captain America creator, Joe Simon tells the compelling, definitive history of the creators who gave us Superman, Captain America, Archie, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man and more. Meet the crime comics editor who would himself be a...

  • Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners, Volume 1

    From out of the Golden Age of Comics, the Marvel Masterworks present the debut of All-Winners Comics! Bringing together all Timely's biggest hits under one roof - Captain America and Bucky, Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch and Toro a...

  • The Newsboy Legion Vol. 1 Featuring Joe Simon & Jack Kirby

  • The Simon and Kirby Superheroes

    Beginning with Blue Bolt in June 1940, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby set the standard for costumed heroes. Their creation Captain America remains one of the most famous heroes in comic book history, and their work for Timely and DC Comics raised the bar.<...

  • The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby Vol. 1

    One of the most popular of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's "kid gang" comics from the early 1940s, The Boy Commandos were an international team of boy soldiers dedicated to fighting the "Ratzis." The team included members from England, France, the Netherl...

  • Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Human Torch, Volume 5



  • Joe Simon, My Life in Comics: The Illustrated Autobiography of Joe Simon

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    Before Marvel, before Captain America, before Simon and Kirby, and before comics there was Joe Simon. Born in 1913, the son of an immigrant tailor, he's been an artist all his life. A newspaper writer, photographer, and cartoonist, and the first edit...

  • Captain America: The Legacy of Captain America

    Marvel's Captain America

    Captain America - a hero for the ages, no matter who's behind the mask! In 1941, watch as Cap and Bucky take on the Red Skull for the first time! Learn the secrets of the men who wore the mask after Cap died! In 1987, witness Johnny Walker become a g...

  • Fighting American

    The complete adventures of the quirky Cold War superhero - launched in 1954 by the creators of Captain America - are presented here in an affordable graphic novel format, with weird and wonderful characters like Yucha Liffso, Jiseppi the Jungle Boy a...

  • Joe Simon: My Life in Comics

    "Gripping from the first page... If you love comic books, history, or just love a story of a real self-made man, you must read this book." - Shadowlocked"A true visionary, Simon's book is laced with never-before-seen photos and il...

  • Simon Kirby Crime

    The creators of Captain America and the Boy Commandos produced some of the hardest-hitting crime comics of the 1950s.

    Often featuring real-world criminals like Ma Barker, Al Capone, and Pretty Boy Floyd, and true-to-life events like the St. V...

  • Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America Vol. 1

    Marvel's Captain America

    Marvel Comics is proud to re-present the earliest adventures of Captain America, Sentinel of Liberty! This monumental hardcover volume re-masters and restores the first four historic issues of Captain America from 1941. Return to the Golden Age of co...

  • The Simon & Kirby Library: Science Fiction

    "The Simon and Kirby Library: Science Fiction spans more than 20 years, beginning with the first stories Joe Simon and Jack Kirby ever produced together (beginning in June 1940)--their ten-issue run of Blue Bolt adventures. Then the Cold War years wi...

  • The Strange World of Your Dreams: Comics Meet Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dali

    """I''m afraid our time is up...!"" The complete 1950s comics series The Strange World of Your Dreams, featuring Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dali, are collected and lovingly restored in this large-format, full-color hardback. Produced by the greatest ...

  • Golden Age Captain America Omnibus Volume 1

    Marvel's Captain America

    Steve Rogers might have been the prototypical 98-pound weakling, but that wasn't going to stop him from serving his country. Transformed by the Super-Soldier Serum into America's #1 fighting man, he became a symbol of patriotism, hope and perseveranc...

  • The Simon and Kirby Library: Horror

    At every point, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby raised the bar.

    When they came to comics, Superman had been around for about a year, and the medium was still in its infancy. They took the action and made it explode, breaking out of the panels and spr...



  • The Art of the Simon and Kirby Studio

    The names Joe Simon and Jack Kirby are synony­mous with comic books, and their partnership ush­ered in the Golden Age of comics starting in the 1940s. Together they created memorable characters such as Captain America and Sandman, invented romance ...

  • The Case of the Purloined Sirloin

  • Newsboy Legion Vol. 2

    For the first time, legendary tales from comics� Golden Age are being reprinted in two must-have hardcover editions. This concluding volume collects the stories from STAR SPANGLED COMICS #33-64 and features an insightful introduction by Kirby histo...

  • Timely's Greatest: The Golden Age Simon & Kirby Omnibus

    Marvel proudly presents TIMELY'S GREATEST, a series of once-in-a-lifetime volumes presenting the greatest stories of the Golden Age, when Marvel was known as Timely Comics! Joe Simon and Jack Kirby entered the comic book field separately, and undoubt...

  • Blue Bolt: The First Ten Stories (Simon and Kirby)

    Cosmic rays, exotic villainess, alternate dimensions, monsters & mayhem! In the early days of comic books' golden age, the heroic superhero, Blue Bolt, battles the beautiful seductive villainess, the Green Sorceress, and her strange army, in the ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joe Simon has published 24 books.

Joe Simon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blue Bolt: The First Ten Stories (Simon and Kirby), was published in July 2020.

The first book by Joe Simon, The Comic Book Makers, was published in December 1990.

No. Joe Simon does not write books in series.
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