"Guardian (DC Comics) Guardian (James Jacob ""Jim"" Harper) is a DC Comics superhero, introduced in April 1942 by writer Joe Simon and artist Jack Kirby. Guardian resembles an earlier Kirby and Simon character Captain America (first published 13 months earlier by Marvel Comics) where he had no super powers and carried an indestructible shield. A version of Guardian appears in The CW television series ""Supergirl"". He is the alter-ego of the comic book character Jimmy Olsen played by Mehcad Brooks. He first appeared in ""Star-Spangled Comics"" #7 (April 1942) and was created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. Jim Harper"
"heroes included the Challenger, drawn by Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski under the pseudonym Nick Karlton; Dynaman, by artist and possibly writer Steve Dahlman; and the superheroine the Silver Scorpion, created or co-created by artist and sometime-writer Harry Sahle using the pen name Jewell, which comics historian Michael J. Vassallo believes marked a collaboration with another, unknown artist. The final three issues contained work by the commercially popular team of writer-inker Joe Simon and penciler and sometimes co-scripter Jack Kirby. They collaborated on the covers of #6 (July 1940) and #8 (Jan. 1942), the former of which also featured a 10-page Simon"
"Blue Bolt Blue Bolt is a fictional American comic book superhero created by writer-artist Joe Simon in 1940, during the period fans and historians refer to as the Golden Age of Comic Books. Initially published by Novelty Press, ""Blue Bolt Comics"", one of the earliest comic books titled after a single character, ran 101 issues, cover-dated June 1940 to August 1951. Its namesake hero was created by writer-artist Joe Simon for Funnies Inc., one of the earliest comic-book ""packagers"" that produced outsourced comics on demand for publishers entering the fledgling medium. By the second issue, Simon had enlisted Jack Kirby"
"Newsboy Legion, the Boy Commandos, and Manhunter. Simon and Kirby creations for other comics publishers include Boys' Ranch, Fighting American and the Fly. In the late 1940s, the duo created the field of romance comics, and were among the earliest pioneers of horror comics. Simon, who went on to work in advertising and commercial art, also founded the satirical magazine ""Sick"" in 1960, remaining with it for a decade. He briefly returned to DC Comics in the 1970s. Simon was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1999. Joe Simon was born in 1913 as Hymie"
"the surface to fight against the Nazis. After being struck by lightning twice and being healed via an experimental treatment, Fred Parrish gained the ability to project lightning bolts. He also possessed a lightning gun which could shoot lightning bolts. Blue Bolt Blue Bolt is a fictional American comic book superhero created by writer-artist Joe Simon in 1940, during the period fans and historians refer to as the Golden Age of Comic Books. Initially published by Novelty Press, ""Blue Bolt Comics"", one of the earliest comic books titled after a single character, ran 101 issues, cover-dated June 1940 to August"
"Jack Kirby Jack ""King"" Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg ; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. He grew up in New York City, and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and editorial cartoons. He entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, before ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the"
"Stan Lee Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber ; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, and publisher who was active from the 1940s to the 2010s. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business to become Marvel Comics' primary creative leader for two decades, leading its expansion from a small division of a publishing house to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics industry. In collaboration with others at Marvel—particularly co-writer/artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko—he co-created numerous popular fictional characters, including superheroes Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk,"
"Alternative versions of Superman The character of Superman, also known as Kal-El from Krypton, who adopts the identity of Clark Kent when not fulfilling his superhero role, was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and has been continually published in a variety of DC Comics book titles since its premiere in 1938. There have been several versions of Superman over the years, both as the main hero in the stories as well as several alternative versions. Originally, there was only one Superman. However, beginning in the late 1940s, demand for comics shifted from superheroes as war, horror, science fiction"
"one of the few African-American comic book artists of the Golden Age, revamped – in more than one sense – the newly acquired Quality Comics character Phantom Lady in 1947, creating one of the most memorable and controversial examples of superhero ""good girl art"". Future comics legend Jack Kirby, brought on staff here after freelancing for Eisner & Iger, wrote and drew the syndicated newspaper comic strip ""The Blue Beetle"" (starting Jan. 1940), starring a character created by Charles Nicholas Wojtkowski in ""Mystery Men Comics"" #1 (Aug. 1939). Kirby retained the house name ""Charles Nicholas"" for the comic strip, which"
"Jeffrey Mace Jeffrey Solomon ""Jeff"" Mace, also known as the Patriot and Captain America, is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created during the 1940s, a period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. As the Patriot, he first appeared in ""The Human Torch"" #4 (Spring 1941; mis-numbered #3 on cover), published by Marvel's 1940s precursor, Timely Comics. In 1976, Marvel revealed via retroactive continuity that Mace had become the third Captain America some time after his World War II era adventures. He is also the"
"1953. Since Marvel Comics revived the character in 1964, Captain America has remained in publication. The character wears a costume bearing an American flag motif, and he utilizes a nearly indestructible shield which he throws as a projectile. Captain America is the alter ego of Steve Rogers, a frail young man enhanced to the peak of human perfection by an experimental serum to aid the United States government's efforts in World War II. Near the end of the war, he was trapped in ice and survived in suspended animation until he was revived in the present day. Although Captain America"
"various gadgets. In Man of Steel, Colonel Nathan Hardy (portrayed by Christopher Meloni) uses The codename ""Guardian"". Guardian (Mal Duncan) appears in ""DC Super Hero Girls"". He is seen as one of the background students of Super Hero High. Guardian (DC Comics) Guardian (James Jacob ""Jim"" Harper) is a DC Comics superhero, introduced in April 1942 by writer Joe Simon and artist Jack Kirby. Guardian resembles an earlier Kirby and Simon character Captain America (first published 13 months earlier by Marvel Comics) where he had no super powers and carried an indestructible shield. A version of Guardian appears in The"
"that the crowd is racist. In his column on Comic Book Resources, Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada apologized for the sign, claiming that it was a mistake, added by the letterer at the last minute. The character, first as agent Steve Rogers and later after resuming his identity as Captain America, appeared as a regular character throughout the 2010–2013 ""Avengers"" series, from issue #1 (July 2010) through its final issue #34 (January 2013). The character appeared as agent Steve Rogers as a regular character in the 2010–2013 ""Secret Avengers"" series, from issue #1 (July 2010) through issue #21 (March 2012);"
"& Kirby story introducing the single-appearance superhero Marvel Boy (the first of several Marvel Universe characters to take that name), and 10-page story starring the previously introduced Fiery Mask. Issue #7 (April 1941) contained an eight-page Simon & Kirby story introducing the obscure Captain Daring (taken over for the next and last issue by artist Frank Borth, and continuing as Captain Dash in ""Comedy Comics"" #9). One of the first superhero parodies — Stuporman, by Harry Douglas who signed his name ""Harry / Douglas"" leading to much confusion and many theories over the possibility of two creators — debuted in"
"line of superheroes. Joe Simon created a new Shield-type of superhero, whose real identity was Lancelot Strong, who appeared in a new title, ""The Double Life of Private Strong"". Joe Simon put together a team of artists including Jack Kirby to work for him on ""The Double Life of Private Strong"". Lancelot's scientist father developed a method to create a superhuman by expanding the mind, which he used on his infant son. After his father was killed by foreign agents, Lancelot was adopted by a farm couple and raised as their son. Once he hit his teens, he discovered the"
"clone and they both plummet off the cliff into the water below. The Red Skull's clone calls the other Steve Rogers an idiot for his actions. There had been other people who passed themselves off as Red Skull: Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, George John Maxon appeared as Red Skull in ""Captain America Comics"" #1-3 (March-May 1941). Maxon is an American businessman and Nazi agent who leads a ring of spies and saboteurs and serves as an agent of Johann Schmidt (the true Red Skull). He faces Captain America during two of the latter's first missions. Maxon is"
"the most recent incarnation of ""The Brave and the Bold"" (issue #9, February 2008), in which they teamed up with fellow World War II heroes, the Blackhawks. DC published the first of 2 hardback collections of Simon and Kirby's work on the series: Boy Commandos Boy Commandos was a 1940s comic book series created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for DC Comics. A combination of ""kid gang"" comics and war comics, the title starred an international cast of young boys fighting Nazis — or in their own parlance, ""the Ratzies"". Simon & Kirby were hired away from Timely Comics"
"superhero Target, created by cartoonist Dick Briefer under the pen nam ""Dick Hamilton"", was introduced in issue #10 (Nov. 1940), accompanied by the Targeteers the following issue. The ""Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide"" suggests that the first comic book letter column may have appeared in ""Target Comics"" #6. The page in question also has an early mention of comic-book collecting.) ""Blue Bolt""'s title character superhero was created by Joe Simon, and ""Blue Bolt"" #2 (July 1940) featured the first pairing of the longstanding and pioneering creative team of Simon and Jack Kirby. ""4 Most"", launched in 1941, was Novelty's answer"
"Fighting American Fighting American is the title character of a patriotically themed comic book character created in 1954 by the writer-artist team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Published by the Crestwood Publications imprint Prize Comics, it was, contrary to standard industry practices of the time, creator-owned. Harvey Comics published one additional issue in 1966. One final inventoried tale was published in 1989, in a Marvel Comics hardcover collection of all the Fighting American stories. Subsequent publishers have had short runs of Fighting American stories with the permission of the owners' estates. The character gained some notoriety due to a"
"the comic series ""Captain America: Steve Rogers"". This new series follows the events of "","" in which Captain America is restored to his youthful state following an encounter with the sentient Cosmic Cube, Kobik, and his past is drastically rewritten under the instructions of the Red Skull. Afterward, Captain America plots to set himself and Hydra in a position where they can conquer America in Marvel's event ""Secret Empire."" In 1966, Joe Simon sued the owners of Marvel Comics, asserting that he—not Marvel—was legally entitled to renew the copyright upon the expiration of the original 28-year term. The two parties"
"of his first tasks was to revamp the newly created superhero Daredevil. Other characters created or worked on by the prolific tyro include MLJ's The Comet in ""Pep Comics""—who in short order became the first superhero to be killed—and his replacement, the Hangman. After becoming an editor at Lev Gleason and revamping Jack Binder's original Golden Age Daredevil in 1940, Cole was hired at Quality Comics. He worked with Will Eisner, assisting on the writer-artist's signature hero The Spirit—a masked crime-fighter created for a weekly syndicated newspaper Sunday supplement and reprinted in Quality Comics. At the behest of Quality publisher"
"Steve Rogers (Marvel Cinematic Universe) Steve Rogers is a fictional character portrayed by Chris Evans in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film franchise, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name and known commonly as Captain America. In the films, Steve Rogers is a World War II-era U.S. Army soldier who was given enhanced physical and mental capabilities with a ""super soldier"" serum developed by the military, and who was later frozen in ice for 70 years. , the character is one of the central figures of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, having played a major role in six"
"Comic Media Comic Media was a short-lived comic book company owned by Allen Hardy that existed in the 1950s. Its titles were mainly action/adventure, western, and horror. Its most notable character was Johnny Dynamite, created by Pete Morisi. The main artist across its titles was Don Heck, who in 1955 would be recruited by Stan Lee to Atlas Comics; what would become Marvel Comics. Don went on to be one of the architects of what became known as ""The Marvel Age of Comics,"" along with the legendary Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Dick Ayers. While there Don co-created Iron Man,"
"line was relaunched as the Dark Circle Comics imprint in 2015. MLJ's first comic book published in November 1939 was ""Blue Ribbon Comics"", with the first half of the magazine in full color and the second half in red and white tints. In January 1940, ""Pep Comics"" debuted with the Shield (one of the first superheroes with a costume based upon United States patriotic iconography), created by writer and managing editor Harry Shorten and artist Irv Novick. (The Shield was a forerunner of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Captain America, having debuted 14 months earlier.) MLJ's Golden Age heroes also"
"after the gory morality tales of the popular and groundbreaking EC line of comics, ""Strange Tales"" became less outré with the 1954 establishment of the Comics Code, which prohibited graphic horror, as well as vampires, zombies and other classical monsters. The comic changed again with the return of industry stalwart Jack Kirby, the artist who had co-created Captain America for the company, then worked elsewhere for 17 years. Starting with #68 (April 1959), ""Strange Tales"" was revamped to reflect the then-current trend of science fiction drive-in movie monsters. Virtually every issue would open with a Kirby monster story (generally inked"
"or their grown daughter. Keene Marlow (his first name slightly different from the earlier comics' ""Keen"") is enhanced by a super-soldier serum variant, similar to the one used to create Captain America (Steve Rogers), but lacking the Vita-Ray treatment. Destroyer (Marvel Comics) The Destroyer is the name of three fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. One of the earliest creations of major comics-industry figure Stan Lee, the original incarnation first appeared in the 1940s during what historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books. Modern incarnations created by Roy Thomas and Frank Robbins"
"Hobgoblin (comics) The Hobgoblin is the alias of several fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly depicted as enemies of Spider-Man. The first Hobgoblin, Roderick Kingsley, first appeared in ""The Amazing Spider-Man"" #238, and was created by Roger Stern and John Romita Jr. During the late 1980s and most of the 1990s, the Hobgoblin identity was carried exclusively by Jason Macendale instead. In 2009 the Hobgoblin was ranked by IGN as the 57th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. The Hobgoblin was created by writer Roger Stern and artist John Romita Jr. for ""The"
"Hobgoblin (comics) The Hobgoblin is the alias of several fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly depicted as enemies of Spider-Man. The first Hobgoblin, Roderick Kingsley, first appeared in ""The Amazing Spider-Man"" #238, and was created by Roger Stern and John Romita Jr. During the late 1980s and most of the 1990s, the Hobgoblin identity was carried exclusively by Jason Macendale instead. In 2009 the Hobgoblin was ranked by IGN as the 57th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. The Hobgoblin was created by writer Roger Stern and artist John Romita Jr. for ""The"
"Captain Action Captain Action was an action figure created in 1966, equipped with a wardrobe of costumes allowing him to become Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Aquaman, the Phantom, The Lone Ranger (and Tonto), Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Sgt. Fury, Steve Canyon, and the Green Hornet. Captain Action was the Ideal Toy Company's answer to Hasbro's G.I. Joe—although the protagonist dolls of both toy lines were created and designed by the same toy-and-idea man, Stan Weston. Toy developer Stan Weston went to Hasbro's Don Levine with the idea of an articulated doll in the form of a soldier — a"
"made the character ineligible for termination of the copyright transfer. Simon and Marvel settled out of court in 2003, in a deal that paid Simon royalties for merchandising and licensing use of the character. Steven Rogers was born in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, in 1920 to poor Irish immigrants, Sarah and Joseph Rogers. Joseph died when Steve was a child, and Sarah died of pneumonia while Steve was a teen. By early 1940, before America's entry into World War II, Rogers is a tall, scrawny fine arts student specializing in illustration and a comic book"
"Christopher Rule Christopher Rule (November 23, 1894 – April 1983) was an American comic book artist active from the 1940s through at least 1960, and best known as the first regular Marvel Comics inker for comics artist Jack Kirby during the period fans and historians call the Silver Age of Comic Books. After driving an ambulance in France during World War I, Christopher Rule in the 1920s worked in comic strips and fashion illustration. For publisher S. Gabriel & Sons, Rule and Pelagia Doane illustrated a Pinocchio ""put together book"" in which gummed illustrations could be cut out and mounted"
"Goodman. The original eight-page story was expanded by four pages for ""Marvel Comics"" #1 (Oct. 1939), the first publication of what Goodman would eventually call Timely Comics, the 1940s precursor of Marvel Comics. Everett's anti-hero proved a sudden success, quickly becoming one of Timely's top three characters, along with Carl Burgos' android superhero the Human Torch and Jack Kirby and Joe Simon's Captain America. Everett soon introduced such supporting characters as New York City policewoman Betty Dean, a steady companion and occasional love-interest, and Namor's cousin Namora. Everett drew his star character in ""Sub-Mariner Comics"", published first quarterly, then thrice-yearly"
"think I added the business about the webs coming out of his hands."" Kirby disputed Lee's version of the story and claimed Lee had minimal involvement in the character's creation. According to Kirby, the idea for Spider-Man had originated with Kirby and Joe Simon, who in the 1950s had developed a character called the Silver Spider for the Crestwood Publications comic ""Black Magic,"" who was subsequently not used. Simon, in his 1990 autobiography, disputed Kirby's account, asserting that ""Black Magic"" was not a factor, and that he (Simon) devised the name ""Spider-Man"" (later changed to ""The Silver Spider""), while Kirby"