(Fall 1943)
DC,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-07-27
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- World's Best Comics Co.
- Brand
-
A Superman DC Publication
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited as F. W. Ellsworth) (editor); Jack Schiff (actual editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration. On-sale date of July 30 in ad in Detective Comics #79.
[no title indexed]
The Boy Commandos / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- children; war
- Characters
- Brooklyn; Rip Carter; Alfy Twidgett; Andre; Jan
- Reprints
-
in America at War: The Best of DC War Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1979 series) (1979) - in America at War: The Best of DC War Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1979 series) (October 1979)
- in The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2010 series) #2 (2015 [February 2016])
- in Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War (Fantagraphics, 2017 series) (2017)
-
Swing Shift
Good Books Worth Reading / text article / 0.67 page
- Script
- Josette Frank
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
The Invasion of Europe! Flames at Dawn
The Boy Commandos / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Jack Kirby ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Simon (signed); Simon and Kirby Studio
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Howard Ferguson
- Genre
- children; war
- Characters
- Brooklyn; Rip Carter; Alfy Twidgett; Andre; Jan
- Synopsis
- The Commandos participate in D-Day, months before it actually happens.
- Reprints
- in The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2010 series) #2 (2015 [February 2016])
-
Chapter 2: Brooklyn Revere's Ride!
The Boy Commandos / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Jack Kirby ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Simon (signed); Simon and Kirby Studio
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Howard Ferguson
- Genre
- children; war
- Characters
- Brooklyn; Rip Carter; Alfy Twidgett; Andre; Jan; Pere Hugo
- Reprints
- in The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2010 series) #2 (2015 [February 2016])
-
Chapter 3: The Madman of Mt. Cloud!
The Boy Commandos / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Jack Kirby ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Simon (signed); Simon and Kirby Studio
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Howard Ferguson
- Genre
- children; war
- Characters
- Brooklyn; Rip Carter; Alfy Twidgett; Andre; Jan; Col. Von Bleemer; Dr. Zeeda
- Reprints
- in The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2010 series) #2 (2015 [February 2016])
-
Chapter 4: Toinette the Terrible
The Boy Commandos / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Jack Kirby ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Simon (signed); Simon and Kirby Studio
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Howard Ferguson
- Genre
- children; war
- Characters
- Brooklyn; Rip Carter; Alfy Twidgett; Andre; Jan; Toinette the Terrible
- Reprints
- in The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2010 series) #2 (2015 [February 2016])
-
Chapter 5: West Meets East
The Boy Commandos / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- children; war
- Characters
- Brooklyn; Rip Carter; Alfy Twidgett; Andre; Jan
- Reprints
- in The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2010 series) #2 (2015 [February 2016])
-
Chapter 6: Bugle of the Brave
The Boy Commandos / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Jack Kirby ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Simon (signed); Simon and Kirby Studio
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Howard Ferguson
- Genre
- children; war
- Characters
- Brooklyn; Rip Carter; Alfy Twidgett; Andre; Jan; Mayor Anton; Jules Anton; Elmo the Guerilla
- Reprints
- in The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (DC, 2010 series) #2 (2015 [February 2016])
-
Chapter 7: The Road to Berlin!
The Boy Commandos / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Jack Kirby ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Simon (signed); Simon and Kirby Studio
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Howard Ferguson
- Genre
- children; war
- Characters
- Brooklyn; Rip Carter; Alfy Twidgett; Andre; Jan; Adolph Hitler
Doughboy
Facts About the Service / cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Jack Lehti (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Lehti (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Lehti (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- non-fiction
[no title indexed]
Ruthless Ronald / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ronald have you mowed the lawn yet?
- Genre
- humor; children
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Boy Commandos -
1.
Editorial Advisory Board
-
2.
Swing Shift
Good Books Worth Reading -
3.
The Invasion of Europe! Flames at Dawn
The Boy Commandos -
4.
Chapter 2: Brooklyn Revere's Ride!
The Boy Commandos -
5.
Chapter 3: The Madman of Mt. Cloud!
The Boy Commandos -
6.
Chapter 4: Toinette the Terrible
The Boy Commandos -
7.
[no title indexed]
Wheaties -
8.
Chapter 5: West Meets East
The Boy Commandos -
9.
Chapter 6: Bugle of the Brave
The Boy Commandos -
10.
Chapter 7: The Road to Berlin!
The Boy Commandos -
11.
["Be sure to get these top favorites for the best in comics!"]
-
12.
Doughboy
Facts About the Service -
13.
["Ronald have you mowed the lawn yet?"]
Ruthless Ronald -
14.
["In our present journey around the sun..."]
Prof. Pipp -
15.
The Big Eight!
-
16.
[no title indexed]
Lightning Ju-Jitsu
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Adam Spector
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.