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Joe Simon

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Quotes by Joe Simon

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Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.
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How could Captain America not have been a reaction to the times. The Nazis were a menace, an evil in the world. The US hadn't yet entered the war when Jack and I did Captain America, so maybe he was our way at lashing out against the Nazi menace.
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In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.
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I like The Geek, a rag-doll pretending to be human. The Prez, an adolescent in the White House, just like the current occupant.
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The blood was like paint, just pouring out of him. We were just panicking. We knew the options were limited.
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Both of us couldn't let a man die.
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To look back and know that I have had a pivotal role in the development of comics is something I'm very proud of, although it's not something I think about unless someone brings it up.
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Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.
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He is a strong advocate for the ABC House, putting on a benefit shooting match which raises thousands of dollars for the house,
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When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.