Joe Simon

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 [gcd_link_publisher](78) (then better known as Timely). With his partner, artist [gcd_link_creator](2), he co-created [gcd_link_feature](1211), one of comics' most enduring superheroes, and the team worked extensively on such features at [gcd_link_publisher](54) as the 1940s [gcd_link_feature](7446), and co-created the [gcd_link_feature](8215), [gcd_link_feature](1479), and [gcd_link_feature](5785). Simon and Kirby creations for other comics publishers include [gcd_link_feature](25640), [gcd_link_feature](11060) and [gcd_link_feature](3201). In the late 1940s, the duo created the field of romance comics, and were among the earliest pioneers of horror comics. Simon, who went on to work in advertising and commercial art, also founded the satirical magazine [gcd_link_series](23471), remaining with it for over a decade. He briefly returned to [gcd_link_publisher](54) in the 1970s.