Fighting American
#v2#1 (7)
(April-May 1955)
Prize,
1954 Series
- Volume
- 2
- 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
- Look, Fighting American! The horses have sprouted wings!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Professor
- 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)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover colors and inks credits from Greg Theakston via the GCD Error List (5 April 2008); the original indexer credited the inks to Joe Simon
Sneak of Araby
Fighting American / comic story / 8 pages
- 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
- 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
- communist; desert; genie; oil; sneezing powder
Three Coins in the Pushcart
Fighting American / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- John Prentice
- Inks
- John Prentice ?; Joe Simon ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Howard Ferguson
- 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
- 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
- communists; sabotage
Indexer Notes
Greg Theakson, via the GCD Error List (5 April 2008), challenged the original indexer's crediting of the pencils to Jack Kirby. John Prentice pencils per Harry Mendryk's Simon and Kirby blog. Carl Wessler script per Robin Snyder, via Wessler's record books. Title is a parody of the 1954 movie "Three Coins in the Fountain."
About Space-Face
Fighting American / comic story / 5 pages
- 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
- 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
- communist; space alien
Indexer Notes
Wessler script per Robin Snyder, via Wessler's record books. Originally titled "Out of This World". Next appearance in Fighting American (Harvey, 1966 series) #1.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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["Look, Fighting American! The horses have sprouted wings!"]
Fighting American -
1.
Sneak of Araby
Fighting American -
2.
Three Coins in the Pushcart
Fighting American -
3.
About Space-Face
Fighting American -
4.
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Rube
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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