(Spring 1944)
DC,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1944-01-25
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- World's Best Comics Co.
- Brand
-
A Superman DC Publication
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited as F. W. Ellsworth) (editor); Jack Schiff (actual editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
[no title indexed]
The Boy Commandos / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Simon (signed)
- Colors
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Genre
- children; war
- Characters
- Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Alfy; Jan; Andre
Indexer Notes
Cover colors credits from Greg Theakston via the GCD Error List.
[no title indexed]
Alfred / public service announcement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Paper, paper everywhere...
- Genre
- advocacy; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Alfred Pennyworth; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
- Synopsis
- Americans are urged to collect waste paper for the war effort.
Indexer Notes
inside front cover
News from Belgium
The Boy Commandos / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Simon (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Howard Ferguson
- Genre
- children; war
- Characters
- Rip Carter; Alfy; Brooklyn; Jan; Andre; Nanette; Pierre Beauchamp
- Synopsis
- The commandos deliver a newspaper press to the Belgian underground.
- Reprints
-
in Boy Commandos (DC, 1973 series) #2 (November-December 1973)
-
[no title indexed]
Shorty / comic story / 0.67 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This camouflage stuff is great!
- Genre
- humor; war
- Characters
- Shorty
- Synopsis
- Shorty camouflages a ship's guns.
Indexer Notes
upper two-thirds of page
Statement of Ownership
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
- Script
- Jack Liebowitz
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Owners of World's Best Comics Company are given as "H. Donenfeld, J.S. Liebowitz, G.F. Frank, and A.I. Menin."
480 Lexington Ave, NY, NY
Editor: F.W. Ellsworth
lower third of page
The Jackals of Jawnpore!
The Boy Commandos / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Simon (signed); Simon and Kirby Studio
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- children; war
- Characters
- Rip Carter; Alfy; Brooklyn; Andre; Jan; the Rajah of Jawnpore; Lal Kadar; Bayindra Singh
- Synopsis
- The commandos assist an India rajah in his efforts to control crime in his city.
Action along the Adriatic!
The Boy Commandos / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Don C. Cameron ? (ghosted for Joe Simon)
- Pencils
- Louis Cazeneuve (ghosted for Jack Kirby)
- Inks
- Louis Cazeneuve ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- children; war
- Characters
- Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Alfy; Jan; Andre; Capt. Danovic; Josip; Dr. Konrad; Bohuslas
- Synopsis
- The commandos go on a mission to aid partisans in the Balkans.
Indexer Notes
credits from Bob Hughes
[no title indexed]
Handy Andy / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Howdy, folks!...Today I'm agonna tell ya exactly how you can take a few old left-over knick-knacks...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Handy Andy
- Synopsis
- Andy explains how to build a windmill.
Destiny Writes the Headlines
The Boy Commandos / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Joe Simon ? (likely used a ghost writer)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Louis Cazeneuve ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- children; war
- Characters
- Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Alfy; Jan; Andre; Bovar; Cecil Merriwether
- Synopsis
- The commandos encounter a fake fortune teller.
Captain Tootsie and the Secret Weapon!
Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll / comics-form advertising / 1 page
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Boy Commandos -
1.
["Paper, paper everywhere..."]
Alfred -
2.
News from Belgium
The Boy Commandos -
3.
["This camouflage stuff is great!"]
Shorty -
4.
Statement of Ownership
-
5.
["No planes approaching, Sarg..."]
Wheaties -
6.
The Jackals of Jawnpore!
The Boy Commandos -
7.
Commando Training with Thom McAn
Thom McAn -
8.
Action along the Adriatic!
The Boy Commandos -
9.
For Valor
-
10.
["Howdy, folks!...Today I'm agonna tell ya exactly how you can take a few old left-over knick-knacks..."]
Handy Andy -
11.
Destiny Writes the Headlines
The Boy Commandos -
12.
Amazing Forecaster
The Weather Man -
13.
Captain Tootsie and the Secret Weapon!
Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Peter Croome
- Lionel English
- Bob Hughes
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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