The names Joe Simon and Jack Kirby are synonymous with comic books and together
their partnership (which began in the 1940s) ushered in the Golden Age of comics
and greatly influenced everything that followed. The Simon and Kirby Studio cre
ated such memorable characters as Captain America and the Sandman and were the f
irst to publish in comic books the genres of western, crime, horror and romance
(later appropriated by Roy Lichtenstein for his pop art paintings). Over the cou
rse of three decades together they wrote and illustrated several hundred comics,
many of which have never been reprinted since they were first published in the
1940s and '50s.
This oversized volume of 386 pages will be organised by genre
and cover all aspects of their amazing career, with commentary by Mark Evanier,
the foremost authority on the work of Simon and Kirby. All of the images have b
een photographed from the original art in Joe Simon's private archive, showcasin
g the seminal work of Simon and Kirby and their artistry as it has never been be
fore.
