Fighting American
#v1#4 [4]
(October-November 1954)
Prize,
1954 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Headline Publications Inc.
- Brand
- Prize Group
- Editing
- Joe Simon (editor); Jack Kirby (editor)
[no title indexed]
Fighting American / cover / 1 page
- 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
-
in Fighting American (Atlas, 1954 ? series) #5 -
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)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover inks and colors credits from Greg Theakston via the GCD Error List (5 April 2008); the original indexer credited the inks to Joe Simon.
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Tokyo Run-Around!
Fighting American / comic story / 8 pages
- 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
- 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; Japan; pickpocket; submarine; Tokyo
Home-Coming Year 3000
Fighting American / comic story / 9 pages
- 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
- 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
- alien; dream; space travel
Indexer Notes
dream adventure
Johnny and Dan do not appear as the Fighting American or Speedboy in this story but only as their civilian selves.
Operation Wolf!
Fighting American / comic story / 5 pages
- 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
- 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; communist; playboy
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Listen, Rhode Island Red!"]
Fighting American -
1.
Tokyo Run-Around!
Fighting American -
2.
Home-Coming Year 3000
Fighting American -
3.
Operation Wolf!
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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