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Young Romance: The Best of Simon and Kirby's Romance Comics
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 the best-selling American comic books of all time: the romance comics. The stories they created were exciting, innovative, and beautifully drawn, and remain a high point in both artists’ careers, even as Kirby we...more
Hardcover, 208 pages
Published
January 30th 2012
by Fantagraphics
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I'd call this a mixed bag:
Two of the stories are obviously not drawn by Kirby, who probably did just the layouts, and the post Comics Code tales are losers.
However, there are a few classics among the rest and it's cool to see Kirby trying to tell a story without a lot of the dynamic action scenes which are his trademark.
Two of the stories are obviously not drawn by Kirby, who probably did just the layouts, and the post Comics Code tales are losers.
However, there are a few classics among the rest and it's cool to see Kirby trying to tell a story without a lot of the dynamic action scenes which are his trademark.
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Joseph Henry "Joe" Simon (born Hymie 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 endur...more
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