Posted on 04/16/2008 8:42:10 AM PDT by Borges
“Living legend” is how Joe Simon is categorized on the list of special guests appearing at the New York Comic Con at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center this weekend. Mr. Simon, 94, has a different take on it. “I call it the old-geezer table,” he said during a recent interview at his Midtown Manhattan apartment.
Mr. Simon will take part in the “Legends Behind the Comic Books” panel at 3 p.m. on Friday, one of numerous events planned at the convention, a three-day celebration of all things comics.
Mr. Simon earned the “legend” title with his partner Jack Kirby by creating Captain America, the superhero who arrived in December 1940, just in time to play a patriotic foil to the Axis powers. The cover of the first issue even has the good captain socking Hitler in the jaw.
For Mr. Simon and Mr. Kirby, though, the biggest blow came when they were dismissed from the series, which had been selling a million copies a month, in a dispute over royalties. The team moved to Detective Comics (today DC Comics), but Captain America stayed with Timely, the forerunner of Marvel Comics.
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I’d love to be there.
You can post images from the NYT now? Who knew!
Oops! Perhaps not!
I shoulda checked!
Admin, if this is verboten, please kill the pic, would you? Thanks.
You choice of words is incredibly ironic considering that Capt America was created just before WWII against the Nazis.
There to become well and truly hosed.
I must have been possessed by the Red Skull for a moment!
Thanks, oh mighty one!
Welcome ;)
That picture looks more like Ultimate Captain America. Ultimate Cap was great in the first series, not so much in the second one...
What’s needed is to have Capt. America show up at Tea Party rallies. Any one have the costume that can attend or even make one for a future attendee?
Oh yeah! We need Capt. America to show up at Palin rallies! Would that be cool or what? Make sure he gets great face time standing next to the Palinator shaking her hand! Go Cappy!
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