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Showing posts with label Joe Simon. Show all posts
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The Today of Their Tomorrow

It's fun to look back to days of future past, to see what yesterday thought the today of their tomorrow would look like.

These couple of pages are from the yesterday of 1946, created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, showing, among other things, that everyone will own a set of portable jets to 'soar leisurely aloft at medium speeds'. I haven't been issued my set yet, so that probably won't be until the day after tomorrow, or maybe the tomorrow of the next month of the future. Though, this first page does hint at the achievement of Fed-Ex, getting fruits from farms to the desert within hours of being plucked.



Message to Murmansk

Ah, the great team-ups of visual story-telling history. From William Shakespeare and William Robinson (albeit a few hundred years apart), to Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.

There's just something about Simon and Kirby that defines the golden age of comix. And here, the Boy Commandos report for duty in World's Finest Comics for a while.














Escape to Disaster

The Golden Age of Comics ran alongside World War II, and it acted out stories even as the actual action took place. I can't quite imagine that happening with today's comics and war(s).

Jack Kirby and Joe Simon had a way of personalizing the big picture and bringing the war to a level that kid or adult could empathize with.

The Boy Commandos, from Detective Comics #67, September 1942:












Below, the Jerry Robinson cover to this issue: