Joe Simon (born 1915) was a comic book author and cartoonist who created or co-created many memorable characters in the Golden Age. He worked extensively with Jack Kirby, with whom he co-created Captain America for Timely Comics (now Marvel), one of the most enduring superhero characters. He also created (or co-created) the Fighting American, The Fly, and (for DC Comics) the 1940s Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy, the Newsboy Legion, Boy Commandos, and Manhunter.
His non-fiction prose book The Comic Book Makers (co-written with his son Jim Simon) is an autobiographical history of the mid-20th century comics industry.
JoeSimon started his art and writing career in the newspaper field and in the late 1930s moved to comics, doing free-lance work for the Funnies Incorporated "packaging" shop and producing art and stories for Fox, Novelty, Centaur, and others.
Joe eventually left comics for advertising, however he continued to produce comics in other genres, notably educational and commercial comics, as well as art for The New York Times and the Olympics.
JoeSimon is the author, with his son Jim, of The Comic Book Makers, an eyewitness account of comic book history.
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