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.

and remained a team across the next two decades. Mainline publiJoe Simond four titles: the Western Bullseye: Western Scout; the war comic Foxhole since EC Comics and Atlas Comics were having success with war comics but promoting theirs as being written and drawn by actual veterans; In Love since their earlier romance comic Young Love was still being widely imitated; and the crime comic Police Trap which claimed to be based on genuine accounts by law-enforcement officials.

With his partner artist Jack Kirby he co-created Captain America one of comics' most enduring superheroes and the team worked extensively on such features at DC Comics as the 1940s Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy and co-created the Newsboy Legion the Boy Commandos and Manhunter. Joseph Henry "Joe" Simon (born Hymie Simon; October 11 1913 – December 14 2011) was an American comic book writer artist editor and publiJoe Simonr. Simon was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1999.