Fighting American
#v1#5 (5)
(December 1954-January 1955)
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
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]
- 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
- alligator; swamp
Indexer Notes
Cover colors credit from Greg Theakston via the GCD Error List (5 April 2008)
Jiseppi the Jungle Boy
Fighting American / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Jack Kirby ?; Joe Simon ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Howard Ferguson
- 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
- 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
- circus; Cold War; communist; hydrogen bomb; jungle
The Year Bender
Fighting American / comic story / 8 pages
- 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
- 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
- bull; bullying; elephant; exercise; time machine
Invisible Irving, the Great Nothing
Fighting American / comic story / 6 pages
- 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
- 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
- Alcatraz prison; invisibility
Indexer Notes
Story swiped from Starman story in Adventure Comics #77, per Harry Mendryk's blog at the Kirby Museum.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Fighting American -
1.
Jiseppi the Jungle Boy
Fighting American -
2.
Red Agent
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3.
The Year Bender
Fighting American -
4.
No Greater Glory
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5.
[no title indexed]
Poor Richard -
6.
Invisible Irving, the Great Nothing
Fighting American
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Nick Caputo
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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