{"id":24550,"date":"2011-12-15T14:44:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/joe-simon-rip.html"},"modified":"2011-12-16T06:06:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T13:06:39","slug":"joe-simon-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/joe-simon-rip.html","title":{"rendered":"Joe Simon, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another founding giant of the comics world is gone. #ddtb<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Breaking News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joe Simon, co-creator of Captain America, dies at 98<\/b>
New York City, N.Y., USA<\/i><\/p>\n

Thu Dec 15:<\/b> Joe Simon, legendary Golden Age co-creator of such characters as Captain America, the Sandman, the Fly and hundreds more, has died at age 98, according to his son\u2019s posting on Facebook. <\/p>\n

Read more:<\/b><\/p>\n

The Beat – http:\/\/www.comicsbeat.com\/2011\/12\/15\/rip-joe-simon\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo:<\/b> Joe Simon at the 2006 New York Comic Con with a fan dressed as Captain America. (Jared M. Silver \/ +<\/span>Wikipedia<\/a><\/span> contributor)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Another founding giant of the comics world is gone. #ddtb Reshared post from +Breaking News Joe Simon, co-creator of Captain America, dies at 98New York City, N.Y., USA Thu Dec 15: Joe Simon, legendary Golden Age co-creator of such characters as Captain America, the Sandman, the Fly and hundreds more, has died at age 98, … Continue reading “Joe Simon, RIP”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23056,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/11\/tweets-from-2011-10-11.html","url_meta":{"origin":24550,"position":0},"title":"Tweets from 2011-10-11","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Oct-11 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"MT @neilhimself: Congrats to comics legend Joe Simon on his 98th birthday. 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