Full Description
This is a collection of complete comic book stories from the legendary team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, covering every genre in which they made their mark. From the very beginning in the late 1930s, Simon and Kirby produced the finest stories around, creating dramatic new super heroes ("Captain America", "Blue Bolt", "Fighting American", and "The Fly"), western action ("Boy's Ranch"), gruesome horror ("Black Magic"), explosive detective fiction ("Justice Traps the Guilty"), and the very first romance comics ("Young Romance"). They were the dream team. This is the only edition authorised by both Joe Simon and the estate of Jack Kirby; each story is hand-picked by Joe Simon himself.
Contents
Introduction by Joe Simon...6THE HEROES Introduction...12"Captain America and the Riddle of the Red Skull" (from Captain America Comics #1, March 1941)...15The Vision (from Marvel Mystery Comics #14, Dec. 1940)...29Sandman: "The Villain from Valhalla" (from Adventure Comics #75, June 1942)...36"Killer in the Big Top" (from Stuntman Comics #1, April 1946)...46"Assignment: Find the King of the Crime Syndicate" (from Fighting American #2, June 1954)...59"Come Into my Parlor" (From Adventures of the Fly #1, Aug. 1959)...66Cover: Adventures of the Fly #3, Nov. 1959...73SCIENCE FICTION SERIAL ACTIONIntroduction...74Solar Patrol: "The Tree Men of Uranus" (from Silver Streak Comics #2, January 1940)...77Blue Bolt (from Blue Bolt Comics #4, Sept. 1940)...82"The Thing on Sputnik 4" (from Race for the Moon #2, Sept. 1958)...92Cover: Blue Bolt #3, Aug. 1940...97WAR AND ADVENTURE Introduction...98"Satan Wears a Swastika" (from Boy Commandos #1, Winter 1942)...101The Duke of Broadway: "My City is No More" (from Black Cat Comics #5, Apr. 1947)...113Booby Trap (from Foxhole #2, Dec. 1954)...123Cover: Foxhole #1, Oct. 1954...129Introduction...130"Weddin' at Red Rock" (from Western Love #1, July 1949)...133 "The Savage in Me" (from Young Romance Comics #22, June 1950)...136CRIME DRAMA Introduction...150"Trapping New England's Chain Murderer" (from Headline Comics #24, May 1947)...153"Mother of Crime" (from Real Clue Crime Stories, volume 2, no. 4, June 1947)...162"The Case Against Scarface" (from Justice Traps the Guilty #1, Oct. 1947)...170THE GREAT WESTERN Introduction...178"Apache Justice" (from The Kid Cowboys of Boy's Ranch #2, Dec. 1950)...181Remember The Alamo (from The Kid Cowboys of Boy's Ranch #6, Aug. 1951)...188"Doom Town" (from Bulls Eye #4, Feb. 1955)...190OH! THE HORROR!Introduction...198 "The Scorn of the Faceless People!" (from Black Magic #2 -- volume 1, no. 2, Dec. 1950)...201"Up There!" (from Black Magic #13 -- volume 2, no. 7, June 1952)...211"The Woman in the Tower!" (from The Strange World of Your Dreams #3, Nov. 1952)...217Cover: Black Magic #29 (volume 4, no. 5, March 1954)...221SICK HUMOR Introduction...222"A Rainy Day with Housedate Harry"(from My Date #4, Jan. 1948)...225"20,000 Lugs Under the Sea" (from From Here to Insanity #11, Aug. 1955)...228"Lenny Bruce" (from SICK, volume1, no. 2, Oct. 1960)...234Editorial page (from SICK, volume 1, no. 2, Oct. 1960)...236Cover: SICK #42 (volume 6, no. 2), Feb. 1966...237A SIMON AND KIRBY BIBLIOGRAPHY...238
