EXCLUSIVE Story from “The Simon & Kirby Library: Crime”

October 28, 2011

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. You can’t find more revered names in the annals of comic book history. They created Captain America back in 1940, for pete’s sake, showing Steve Rogers punching Adolf Hitler in the jaw even before Pearl Harbor.

On Tuesday, Titan Books will release The Simon & Kirby Libarary: Crime, an anthology of over 30 stories the duo created together over their long partnership, focusing on the pulpy criminal underworld that always makes for good comic tales. The good folks at TItan have given the good folks at Crave Online an exclusive excerpt from that book, featuring a full, complete story entitled A Phantom Pulls The Trigger.

What are you waiting for? Get a move on and read the entire 7-page tale from two of the legendary masters of the medium. Respect your history, and love the instructional diagram at the end that could teach you how to create a Phantom-esque crime spree of your own!

Comic Channel Editor

Comics Editor Andy Hunsaker has written for Yahoo! Movies, Fancast, XfinityTV and UGO, among others, covering movies and television, and has loved comics ever since he read the giant-sized Marvel Treasury Edition of The Rampaging Hulk #26 four thousand times and grew to love guys with weird heads like M.O.D.O.K. and the Bi-Beast. Therefore, he will also defend Ang Lee's Hulk, although he understands why you don't like it and won't hold that against you.

As far as reviews go, he believes the main point of being a critic is not to pass yourself off as the final arbiter of quality passing holy judgment on a work of art, but rather just to share opinions so that the reader can decide whether or not the critic is someone whose tastes generally align with theirs. If so, that reviewer is one whose work you can trust if you're curious about a particular title. If not, cue loud, angry internet vitriol.

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