obituaries

R.I.P. Joe Simon: Remembering One of Comics’ Most Iconic Creators
R.I.P. Joe Simon: Remembering One of Comics’ Most Iconic Creators
R.I.P. Joe Simon: Remembering One of Comics’ Most Iconic Creators
Joe Simon, the comic book writer, artist and editor best-known as the co-creator of Captain America, died yesterday at the age of 98. The Rochester, New York-born Simon began working in the just-emerging field of comic books in 1939, the dawn of the Golden Age, after first working for several New York newspapers and for Paramount Pictures in New York...