“Joe was one of a kind,” pronounced Steve Saffel, of Titan Books, a Simon crony who worked with him on his new autobiography, “Joe Simon, My Life In Comics.”
Saffel pronounced that Simon, innate in Rochester, N.Y., in 1913, “lived life on his terms and combined implausible things in a process. It was a payoff to know him and to call him my friend.”
Among Simon’s creations was a partnership with Kirby, a comic book artist and illustrator. The twin worked