 The issue was a great success; it and a second printing the following month sold a combined nearly 900,000 copies.While its contents came from an outside packager, Funnies, Inc., Timely had its own staff in place by the following year.The company's first true editor, writer-artist Joe Simon, teamed with artist Jack Kirby to create one of the first patriotically themed superheroes, Captain America, in "Captain America Comics" #1 (March 1941).