Books by Joe Simon

Captain America (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection)

by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Jim Steranko, John Romita Sr

The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.

A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition

Collects Captain America Comics #1 (1941); the Captain America stories from Tales of Suspense #59, #63-68, #75-81, #92-95, #110-113 (1964-1969); “Captain America…Commie Smasher” from Captain America #78 (1954). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few.

Drawing upon multiple comic book series, this collection includes Captain America’s very first appearances from 1941 alongside key examples of his first solo stories of the 1960s, in which Steve Rogers, the newly resurrected hero of World War II, searches to find his place in a new and unfamiliar world. As the contents reveal, the transformations of this American icon thus mark parallel transformations in the nation itself.

A foreword by Gene Luen Yang and scholarly introductions and apparatus by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of Captain America and classic Marvel comics.

The Penguin Classics black spine paperback features full-color art throughout.

Prez First Teen President

by Neil Gaiman, Joe Simon, Frank Miller, Ed Brubaker

Every appearance of the DC Universe's youngest Head of State leading up to Mark Russell's critically acclaimed 2015 series--from the character's debut in 1973 to his appearances in SANDMAN, THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN and more!

When a Constitutional amendment lowers the age of eligibility to run for public office, young people across the USA unite to elect the country's first teenaged president--the aptly named Prez Rickard!

Created by Joe Simon and Jerry Grandenetti in 1973, Prez captured the spirit of his era, spreading a message of "Peace in our Time" and fighting government corruption in the form of the villainous Boss Smiley. Though his term in office was short-lived, the idea of the nineteen-year-old political whiz kid nevertheless went on to inspire such comics greats as Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, Ed Brubaker and Grant Morrison.

Collects PREZ #1-4, CANCELLED COMICS CAVALCADE #2, SUPERGIRL #10, SANDMAN #54, VERTIGO VISIONS: PREZ, THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN #2, THE MULTIVERSITY GUIDEBOOK #1.