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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 2011
Page
7
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Joe Simon, co creator of Captain America with Jack Kirby, died at age 98 after a brief illness. The publisher said he passed away Wednesday night in New York City, with family confirming the death. Steve Saffel paid tribute to Simon as “one of a kind.”
PRIMETIME TV profile on Joe Simon linked to Simon’s autobiography Joe Simon My Life In Comics. Saffel praises how Simon born 1913 in Rochester lived on his terms, creating heroic and villainous characters with Kirby in a long collaboration for multiple publishers.
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