Marvel Comics: The World Outside Your Window

by Joe Simon

Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #97, Howard The Duck (1976) #8, Iron Man (1968) #128, New Mutants (1983) #45, Alpha Flight (1983) #106, Uncanny X-Men (1981) #303, Incredible Hulk (1968) #420, Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #36, Captain America (2002) #1, Astonishing X-Men (2004) #51, Ms. Marvel (2015) #13, Champions (2016) #24 and material from Captain America Comics #2, Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #583. The Marvel Universe has always reflected the world outside your window - from the moment Captain America charged into battle in World War II, to the present day! Marvel's characters face relevant and real-life issues alongside their extraordinary adventures - from grappling with alcoholism, to participating in politics, to celebrating diversity and everything in between! These powerful stories from Marvel's 80-year history feature iconic heroes tackling heavy-hitting subjects including drug abuse, teen suicide, HIV, terrorism, school shootings and more.

Genres: Comics

320 pages, Hardcover

First published June 26, 2019

About the author

Joseph Henry "Joe" Simon (born Hymie Simon) was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s-1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.

With his partner, artist Jack Kirby, he co-created Captain America, one of comics' most enduring superheroes, and the team worked extensively on such features at DC Comics as the 1940s Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy, and co-created the Newsboy Legion, the Boy Commandos, and Manhunter. Simon & Kirby creations for other comics publishers include Boys' Ranch, Fighting American and the Fly. In the late 1940s, the duo created the field of romance comics, and were among the earliest pioneers of horror comics. Simon, who went on to work in advertising and commercial art, also founded the satirical magazine Sick in 1960, remaining with it for a decade. He briefly returned to DC Comics in the 1970s.

Simon was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1999.

Reviews

[Al McCarty · Rating 3 out of 5]

so, this book is credited to Joe Simon as author, as he wrote the first story in the volume. If only the rest of the book had been written by him. It starts off with a Simon/Kirby Captain America story from the early 40's, moves into the tale of Harry Osborn getting into pills in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man in the late 60's, then next into Howard the Duck's 1976 effort for the presidency. jump ahead to the much-ballyhooed alcoholism issue of Iron Man in 1979, Demon in a Bottle, and then we have a bunch of mutants against prejudice, leading into a trio of AIDS stories. First off, the first outing of a Marvel superhero, Alpha Flight #106. I remember when this came out, because I worked at comic book store and it got a lot of publicity. I never read it then, but now, wow. The writing by Scott Lobdell is awful and the proto- Liefeld work of Marc Pacella is a symbol of the 90's worst style of cross-hatching over substance, and screaming over subtlety. Next, someone else dies of AIDS in an Uncanny X-Men issue, then Peter David tells the tale of the time that the Hulk's friend dies, but at least the pictures are prettier.
Next up, our window's eye view is downtown Manhattan, as we see 9/11 through Spider-Man's great responsibility. JRJR. 's art looks good. And Captain America deals with more of that shit, and Spider-Man meets Barack Obama. Northstar finally gay-marries in Astonishing X-Men #51 and all of the mutants take over Central Park. Did you know: some mutants don't tolerate gay marriage? Even the prejudiced against can be prejudiced!
Then, you get some Ms. Marvel the Muslim Wonder, and some Miles Morales, cause there's a world outside your window, and it's a world of dread and fear...where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears...and the Christmas bells that ring there...are the clanging chimes of doom...well, tonight thank god it's them instead of you!
And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas...

[Felipe Díaz · Rating 2 out of 5]

No digo que las historias sean malas pero en más de una oportunidad me aburrí leyendo.
Es un compilado de historias que han sido o pueden ser controversiales, (guerra, política, homosexualidad, SIDA, adicciones, etc), pero vividas por medio de personajes de Marvel.
Es parte de la historia del cómic pero sinceramente no captó del todo mi atención.