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Artist, writer and editor Joe Simon, who co-created Captain America, dies at age 98 in New York City

PHILADELPHIA, PA (AP).- Joe Simon, who along with Jack Kirby co-created Captain America and was one of the comic book industry’s most revered writers, artists and editors, has died. He was 98. Simon’s family relayed word of his death Thursday, posting a short statement on Facebook and telling The Associated Press through a spokesman that the 98-year-old Simon died Wednesday night in New York City after a brief illness. “Joe was one of a kind,” said Steve Saffel of Titan Books, a Simon friend who worked with him on his recent autobiography, “Joe Simon, My Life In Comics.” Saffel said that Simon, born in Rochester, N.Y., in 1913, “lived life on his terms and created incredible things in the process. It was a privilege to know him and to call him my friend.” Among his creations was a partnership