- Script
- Joe Simon
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Includes enlarged panel from "Assignment: Expose the League of Handsome Devils!"
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Jack Kirby
- Colors
- Jack Kirby
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Who is the Fighting American?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American; Speedboy
- Reprints
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- Jack Kirby
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Martha Von Lohded; Mary Stewart; Peter Piper
- Synopsis
- Nelson Flagg's older brother, Johnny, is killed by enemies of America. The Army transfers Nelson's brain into Johnny's body to create the Fighting American, who tracks down and captures Peter Piper and his gang.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Cold War
Colors credit from Greg Theakston.
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- Jack Kirby
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Nelson Flagg; Johnny Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Von Feygel
- Synopsis
- Speedboy helps the Fighting American stop Von Feygel from attacking Johnny Flagg with miniaturized remote controlled buzz-bombs.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- buzz bomb; Cold War
Colors credit from Greg Theakston.
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- Jack Kirby
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Mary Grady; Gnortz; Bohltz; Dan Grady
- Synopsis
- Enemy agents kill race car driver Dan Grady before the big European race but the Fighting American takes his place and wins the auto race.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- auto racing; Cold War; Eiffel Tower; France
Colors credit from Greg Theakston.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Jack Kirby
- Colors
- Jack Kirby
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Throw them down the sky well!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]
- Reprints
Colors credit from Greg Theakston.
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Nelson Flagg; Johnny Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Big Deal [Sleppinger] (first appearance, villain); the Handsome Devils (first appearance, villains); Mike Malone; Adam Sanfield
- Synopsis
- The Fighting American and Speedboy battle a group of muggers who kill their victims and are only identified as "handsome devils" by eye witnesses.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- mugging
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Nelson Flagg; Johnny Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Doubleheader [Casper Dewberry] (first appearance, villain); Mary Stewart
- Synopsis
- Doubleheader has created a device to fling energy which he uses to fix various sporting events and to help him win at gambling. The Fighting American and Speedboy put an end to his criminal enterprise.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- gambling
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Nelson Flagg; Johnny Flagg]; Mary Stewart; Gen. Dragonin (first appearance, villain, death); Blaggart (first appearance, villain, death); Ghosts of Shasta (first appearance, villain, death)
- Synopsis
- The Fighting American and Speedboy, along with Mary, are captured by Reds and taken to Mount Shasta where a battle ensues between the Reds and the Ghosts of Shasta. Both sides are destroyed when Fighting American calls in an air strike.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- air strike; anti-aircraft; California; Cold War; communist; G-Man; Mount Shasta; Reds; subway
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Jack Kirby
- Colors
- Jack Kirby
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Don't laugh -- they're not funny -- "
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Hotsky Trotsky; Poison Ivan
- Reprints
Colors credit from Greg Theakston.
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Square-Hair Malloy (first appearance, villain, death)
- Synopsis
- The Fighting American and Speedboy battle Square-Hair Malloy on top of the Statue of Liberty.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- FBI; Statue of Liberty
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Vladimir and his family (first appearance)
- Synopsis
- A boy in a communist country writes Speedboy a letter.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Cold War; communism
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Poison Ivan (villain); Hotski Trotski (first appearance, villain)
- Synopsis
- Poison Ivan and his companion Hotski Trotski spread anti-American propaganda to neighborhood children.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Cold War; propaganda
Title from the cover of the original issue.
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; John (first appearance, villain); Marsha (first appearance, villain); Rammerhead (first appearance, villain); Schwartz; Fodrick; Nutwelder J. Cloudball; Crawlby Wormwood; Comrade Farkriminisch
- Synopsis
- Scientists have created "Z Food" which turns the eater into what they think they are. The Fighting American and Speedboy must keep it out of communist hands.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Cold War; communists
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Jack Kirby
- Colors
- Jack Kirby
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Listen, Rhode Island Red!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Rhode Island Red; Yuscha Liffso
- Reprints
Inks and colors credits from Greg Theakston.
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Ginza Goniff (first appearance, villain, death); Massamuttin (first appearance, villain); Madame Butterscotch (first appearance); Togo (first appearance); Uncle Samurai (first appearance)
- Synopsis
- An American pilot is shot down in the ocean by a communist submarine. The pilot makes his way to Tokyo where he is caught between Japanese mobsters and communist secret agents, but the Fighting American and Speedboy are there to rescue him.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Cold War; communists; Japan; pickpocket; submarine; Tokyo
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Johnny Flagg; Dan Sprite; Starman Zero; Kleeter
- Synopsis
- Johnny Flagg goes to sleep and dreams of the future, when Starman Zero returns from a distant planet telling tales of the strange aliens he met there.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- alien; dream; space travel
Johnny and Dan do not appear as the Fighting American or Speedboy in this story but only as their civilian selves.
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Rimsky (first appearance, villain); Korsakoff (first appearance, villain); Doraymirio Wolfirosoff (first appearance, villain); Rhode Island Red (first appearance, villain); Count Yuscha (first appearance, villain); Sawdoff (first appearance, villain); Geegee La Swill
- Synopsis
- Rhode Island Red and her gang use Doraymirio Wolfirosoff to swindle rich single females out of their money to help fund their communist plots.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Cold War; communist; playboy
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Jack Kirby
- Colors
- Jack Kirby
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Here comes Fighting American
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]
- Reprints
- Keywords
- alligator; swamp
Colors credit from Greg Theakston.
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Jiseppi (first appearance); Sir Cedric Hardwhack; Pamela Hardwhack; Pastrami (tiger); Fat Maria
- Synopsis
- Fighting American and Speedboy travel to India to find a jungle boy who has stolen a hydrogen bomb from the communists.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- circus; Cold War; communist; hydrogen bomb; jungle
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Prof. Dyle Twister (first appearance); Gregory
- Synopsis
- Speedboy rescues Gregory, a scrawny kid who is being picked on by bullies. Gregory's grandfather has invented a time machine that accidentally takes them all 3000 years in the past.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- bull; bullying; elephant; exercise; time machine
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Invisible Irving (first appearance; villain); Freddy Fowlup
- Synopsis
- Invisible Irving escapes from Alcatraz and sets up a racket brainwashing people and getting them to steal from their employers.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Alcatraz prison; invisibility
Story swiped from Starman story in Adventure Comics #77, per Harry Mendryk's blog at the Kirby Museum.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Jack Kirby
- Colors
- Jack Kirby
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Zoot! Fighting American and Speedboy are putty in the hands of the great Ali Ghazam!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Ali Ghazam
- Reprints
Colors credit from Greg Theakston.
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Icy-Fingers McTouch; Stumblebaum; Stickpin; Iggy; Marilyn Biltrite; Deadly Doolittle; Munneybelt; Hooley
- Synopsis
- Marilyn Biltrite steals Munneybelt's diamonds but the mob is on her tail. Fighting American saves her and gives her a chance to turn her life around.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- diamonds; mob; organized crime
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Super Khakalovitch; Charity Bizarre
- Synopsis
- Communists send their "superman", Super Khakalovitch, to America to kill Fighting American but once he arrives in America he decides he likes it better than his homeland.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- body odor; Cold War; Communist; Turkish Bath
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Jack Kirby
- Colors
- Jack Kirby
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look, Fighting American! The horses have sprouted wings!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Professor
- Reprints
Colors and inks credits from Greg Theakston.
- Script
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Little Abdul (first appearance, villain); Col. Flopkin (first appearance, villain); Scarlet O'Haircut (first appearance, villain); Ali Bubu; Shishkabob the Sorcerer; Shashlik; Alikhan
- Synopsis
- A genie takes Fighting American and Speedboy to Kishmir on the Desert, in the Middle East, to stop the communists from getting the oil owned by Little Abdul.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- communist; desert; genie; oil; sneezing powder
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- John Prentice
- Inks
- John Prentice ?; Joe Simon ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Skudnik; Yakfoot; Grummel; Gorgeous Georgia [Gloria Swandive]
- Synopsis
- Communists send three agents, dressed as the Fighting American, to sabotage his reputation.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- communists; sabotage
John Prentice pencils per Harry Mendryk's Simon and Kirby blog. Carl Wessler script per Robin Snyder, from Wessler's record books.
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; 20-20 (first appearance, villain); Skurvee (first appearance, villain); Space-Face (first appearance, an alien); Mister Sharp; Lucy Liverwurst
- Synopsis
- Someone is stealing government secrets and the prime suspect is the alien Space-Face.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- communist; space alien
Wessler script per Robin Snyder, via Wessler's record books. Originally titled "Out of This World".
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Simon (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look out! It's Round Robin!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Round Robin
- Reprints
- Script
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda; Howard Ferguson ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Round Robin (introduction); Yakima Fuldoon; Floyd Dragnet
- Synopsis
- Police chief Floyd Dragnet calls on Fighting American and Speedboy to help capture the crook Round Robin.
- Reprints
- Script
- Jack Kirby ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Howard Fergusen ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Commissar Yutz (villain, introduction, death); Shepard Shoestring (introduction); Rupert Blatzbier (introduction); Theda Barracuda (introduction); Eric Von Junkheap (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Fighting American and Speedboy travel to Hollywood to be in a motion picture but the movie is being directed by communists who want to kill them.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- communist; Hollywood; movie set
- Script
- Jack Kirby ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Howard Fergusen ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Viva Yafata [Harvey Nibble] (villain, introduction); Bosworth Nibble; La Mombo; El Ropo (villain, introduction); Jispers
- Synopsis
- Bosworth Nibble contacts the Fighting American to ask him to go to Mexico to find his son, Harvey Nibble, who he believes has been captured by bandits.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- bandits; firing squad; Mexico
- Script
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Allan Pain; Gulnik; Transmittor Man
- Synopsis
- Gulnik, an alien from Mars, comes to Earth to stop the TV signals that are polluting the Martian airwaves.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Martian
Originally intended for Fighting American (Harvey, 1966 series) #2.
- Script
- Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?
- Pencils
- Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?
- Inks
- Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; The Mad Inker [Inky]
- Synopsis
- Inky, the inker of the Fighting American comic book goes on a crime spree.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- octopus
Originally intended for Fighting American (Harvey, 1966 series) #2. Because Joe Simon had lost the original first page of the story, the original cover for that unpublished issue was substituted as the splash page to this story.