Fighting American
#v1#3 [3]
(August-September 1954)
Prize,
1954 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Headline Publications Inc.
- Brand
- Prize Group
- Editing
- Joe Simon (editor); Jack Kirby (editor)
[no title indexed]
Fighting American / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Kirby (signed by Joe Simon)
- 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
-
in Fantástico (Editora Sol, 1954 series) #78 -
in Fighting American (Marvel, 1989 series) (1989) -
in The Simon and Kirby Library (Titan, 2010 series) #[nn] - Superheroes (October 2010) - in Fighting American (Titan, 2011 series) (May 2011)
- in Fighting American (Titan, 2017 series) #4 [Cover B] (February 2018)
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Indexer Notes
Cover colors credit from Greg Theakston via the GCD Error List (5 APril 2008)
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"Square Hair" Malloy The Man Who Sold Out Liberty!
Fighting American / comic story / 6 pages
- 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
-
in Fighting American (Atlas, 1954 ? series) #3 ([August 1955]) - in Fighting American (Marvel, 1989 series) (1989)
- in The Simon and Kirby Library (Titan, 2010 series) #[nn] - Superheroes (October 2010)
- in Fighting American (Titan, 2011 series) (May 2011)
-
- Keywords
- FBI; Statue of Liberty
Stranger from Paradise
Speedboy / comic story / 2 pages
- 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
- in Fighting American (Marvel, 1989 series) (1989)
- in The Simon and Kirby Library (Titan, 2010 series) #[nn] - Superheroes (October 2010)
- in Fighting American (Titan, 2011 series) (May 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Cold War; communism
Poison Ivan and Hotsky Trotski
Fighting American / comic story / 8 pages
- 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
- in Fighting American (Marvel, 1989 series) (1989)
- in The Simon and Kirby Library (Titan, 2010 series) #[nn] - Superheroes (October 2010)
- in Fighting American (Titan, 2011 series) (May 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Cold War; propaganda
Indexer Notes
Title from cover.
Z Food
Fighting American / comic story / 7 pages
- 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
- in Fighting American (Atlas, 1954 ? series) #3 ([August 1955])
- in Fighting American (Marvel, 1989 series) (1989)
- in The Simon and Kirby Library (Titan, 2010 series) #[nn] - Superheroes (October 2010)
- in Fighting American (Titan, 2011 series) (May 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Cold War; communists
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Don't laugh -- they're not funny -- ""]
Fighting American -
1.
"Square Hair" Malloy The Man Who Sold Out Liberty!
Fighting American -
2.
Stranger from Paradise
Speedboy -
3.
Poison Ivan and Hotsky Trotski
Fighting American -
4.
Z Food
Fighting American
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Nick Caputo
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Mike Nielsen
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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