At every point, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby raised the bar.
When they came to comics, Superman had been around for about a year, and
the medium was still in its infancy. They took the action and made it
explode, breaking out of the panels and sprinting across the page. They
showed what comics could do, experimenting with layout and design,
creating the first full-page panels and double page spreads.
Their first million-seller was a superhero (Captain America), and
their next was military adventure that outsold Superman (DC's Boy
Commandos). These two guys from Rochester and Brooklyn broke all the
rules when they created the first romance comics, and they blazed trails
in every genre: horror, science fiction, crime etc ...
Their work in the legendary title Black Magic was acclaimed by
readers. It was held up on national television by the Senate Committee
on Juvenile Delinquency, where experts claimed Black Magic contributed
to the corruption of American youth! Also included here are the Simon
and Kirby stories from the experimental terror title Strange World of
Your Dreams.