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Golden Age Prize Comics part 1: The Simon & Kirby productions



A collection of Prize comic books including stories or covers
produced by the legendary team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby,
covering every genre in which they made their mark.

Crime:

Horror:


Romance:


Fantasy:


And of course super-hero:



Comics included on this torrent
Series                          Issues                                 Total
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Black magic                     3 5 9 10 12 16 17 18 25 26 28 29 30    T13
Fighting American               1-7                                    T07
Headline Comics                 23 26 31 44                            T04
Justice Traps the Guilty        2 4 5 6 7 8 21 35                      T08
Prize Comics (reprint stories)  7 8 9                                  T03
Strange World of your Dreams    1-4                                    T04
Young Brides                    v2n3                                   T01
Young Love                      4 8 28 31                              T04
Young Romance                   38 40 60 65 69 70 83 85

Extras:

Jack Kirby Collector 009 - Fantastic Four
Thrills of Tomorrow 19 Harvey Simon & Kirby
Timely Captain America 05 re-editer
Fighting American v2 01 Harvey


Quality of scans on this torrent
The quality of the amateur scans on this torrent goes from bad to very fine.
Most of them are complete, cover-to-cover, including all ads and fan pages.  
Some of the best quality scans with Simon & Kirby stories have been expertly and
meticulously color edited to avoid hyper-intense colors, hot-pink skin tones,
and blurry or grainy images.


Sincere thanks are extended to the original scanners


Enjoy!




Crestwood Publications
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Crestwood Publications, also known as Prize Comics and Feature Publications, was a magazine publisher that also published comic book from the 1940s through the 1960s. Its main claim to fame was that in the late 1940s to mid 1950s, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby packaged comics for the company, and creating many new titles. This included the non-gory horror comic Black Magic, the creator-owned Fighting American, and the first romance comic title, Young Romance.

The company gave up publishing comics in 1963, selling off its remaining romance comics to DC. They continued to publish humor magazines up to the mid-late 1970s.



The Simon & Kirby team

From the very beginning in the late 1930s, Simon and Kirby produced the finest stories around, creating dramatic new super heroes (Captain America, Blue Bolt, Fighting American, The Fly), western action (Boy’s Ranch), gruesome horror (Black Magic), explosive detective fiction (Justice Traps the Guilty), and the very first romance comics (Young Romance). They were the dream team.



Crestwood, Black Magic and romance comics

As superhero comics waned in popularity after the end of World War II, Simon & Kirby producing a variety of other genre stories. In partnership with Crestwood Publications a.k.a. Prize Comics, they launched an early horror, the atmospheric and non-gory Black Magic, and others. Simon & Kirby are credited as well with publishing the first romance title, Young Romance Comics. In addition, Kirby and Simon produced crime, and humor comics.
1974 Comic Art Convention program, reprinting Simon's original 1940 sketch of Captain America.

Later, in 1953, they would form their own short-lived comics company, Mainline Publications, creating the masked Western hero Bullseye, the superhero-parody character Fighting American, and others.

The partnership ended in 1955 with the comic book industry beset by self-imposed censorship, negative publicity, and a slump in sales. Simon turned primarily to advertising and commercial art, while dipping back into comics on occasion.



Joe Simon
Joe Simon, with Jack Kirby, created one of the most enduring American heroes in 1940 with the first issue of Captain America Comics from Timely Comics—the company that became Marvel Comics. Simon proved to be a brilliant editor, writer, penciller, inker, and businessman, serving as an editor for Archie, Harvey, Fox, Crestwood, and Mainline Publications—Simon and Kirby’s own company.

Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby is one of the most famous illustrators in comic book history. Having begun in the Fox Comics Bullpen in 1939, he teamed with Joe Simon on such seminal series as Blue Bolt and Captain Marvel Adventures. In subsequent years they worked in every genre imaginable, often seeing their titles sell in excess of one million copies.






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talesin17/03/2009 17.19.27
I haven't finished downloading this yet, but I want to thank you in advance.  This is terrific!  I've been hoping for something like this for a long time.
Simon and Kirby have been badly represented in reprints, (and who wants to look at reprints, anyway?) and this is a real treasure trove of great work that's been largely unseen for many years.

You have my enormous gratitude!

talesin
eurofighter15/03/2009 14.06.02
Great ! Thanks for your work.


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