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Issue: Fighting American #[nn]
Publication Date: May 2011
 
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Publisher: FlagTitan
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Indicia Publisher: Titan Books
On Sale Date: 05/03/2011
Volume:
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780857681157
UPC/EAN: 978085768115751995
Price: $22.95 CAD
£14.99 GBP
$19.95 USD
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Content Items: 37 (26 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: 17 cm x 26 cm
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Binding: Softcover; Squarebound
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]
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Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Joe Simon
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Includes enlarged panel from "Assignment: Expose the League of Handsome Devils!"
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American; Speedboy
Who is the Fighting American?
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First Assignment: Break the Spy Ring

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Martha Von Lohded; Mary Stewart; Peter Piper
Nelson Flagg's older brother, Johnny, is killed by enemies of America. The Army transfers Nelson's brain into Johnny's body to create the Fighting American, who tracks down and captures Peter Piper and his gang.
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Colors credit from Greg Theakston.
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Second Assignment: Track Down the Baby Buzz Bombs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Nelson Flagg; Johnny Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Von Feygel
Speedboy helps the Fighting American stop Von Feygel from attacking Johnny Flagg with miniaturized remote controlled buzz-bombs.
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Colors credit from Greg Theakston.
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Duel to the Finish Line

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Mary Grady; Gnortz; Bohltz; Dan Grady
Enemy agents kill race car driver Dan Grady before the big European race but the Fighting American takes his place and wins the auto race.
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Colors credit from Greg Theakston.
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Credits
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Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]
Throw them down the sky well!
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Colors credit from Greg Theakston.
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Assignment: Expose the League of the Handsome Devils!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Nelson Flagg; Johnny Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Big Deal [Sleppinger] (first appearance, villain); the Handsome Devils (first appearance, villains); Mike Malone; Adam Sanfield
The Fighting American and Speedboy battle a group of muggers who kill their victims and are only identified as "handsome devils" by eye witnesses.
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Assignment: Find the King of the Crime Syndicate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Nelson Flagg; Johnny Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Doubleheader [Casper Dewberry] (first appearance, villain); Mary Stewart
Doubleheader has created a device to fling energy which he uses to fix various sporting events and to help him win at gambling. The Fighting American and Speedboy put an end to his criminal enterprise.
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Assignment: Investigate the City of Ghouls

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Nelson Flagg; Johnny Flagg]; Mary Stewart; Gen. Dragonin (first appearance, villain, death); Blaggart (first appearance, villain, death); Ghosts of Shasta (first appearance, villain, death)
The Fighting American and Speedboy, along with Mary, are captured by Reds and taken to Mount Shasta where a battle ensues between the Reds and the Ghosts of Shasta. Both sides are destroyed when Fighting American calls in an air strike.
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Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Hotsky Trotsky; Poison Ivan
Don't laugh -- they're not funny -- "
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Colors credit from Greg Theakston.
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The Man Who Sold Out Liberty!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Square-Hair Malloy (first appearance, villain, death)
The Fighting American and Speedboy battle Square-Hair Malloy on top of the Statue of Liberty.
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Stranger from Paradise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
superhero
Speedboy
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Vladimir and his family (first appearance)
A boy in a communist country writes Speedboy a letter.
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Poison Ivan and Hotsky Trotski

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Poison Ivan (villain); Hotski Trotski (first appearance, villain)
Poison Ivan and his companion Hotski Trotski spread anti-American propaganda to neighborhood children.
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Title from the cover of the original issue.
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Z Food

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
Fighting American
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
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.
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Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Rhode Island Red; Yuscha Liffso
Listen, Rhode Island Red!
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Inks and colors credits from Greg Theakston.
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Tokyo Run-Around!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
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)
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.
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Home-Coming Year 3000

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
Fighting American
Johnny Flagg; Dan Sprite; Starman Zero; Kleeter
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.
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Johnny and Dan do not appear as the Fighting American or Speedboy in this story but only as their civilian selves.
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Operation Wolf!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
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
Rhode Island Red and her gang use Doraymirio Wolfirosoff to swindle rich single females out of their money to help fund their communist plots.
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Credits
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]
Here comes Fighting American
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Colors credit from Greg Theakston.
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Follow the Dangerous Trail of Jiseppi the Jungle Boy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Jiseppi (first appearance); Sir Cedric Hardwhack; Pamela Hardwhack; Pastrami (tiger); Fat Maria
Fighting American and Speedboy travel to India to find a jungle boy who has stolen a hydrogen bomb from the communists.
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The Year Bender

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Prof. Dyle Twister (first appearance); Gregory
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.
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Track Down Invisible Irving, the Great Nothing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Invisible Irving (first appearance; villain); Freddy Fowlup
Invisible Irving escapes from Alcatraz and sets up a racket brainwashing people and getting them to steal from their employers.
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Story swiped from Starman story in Adventure Comics #77, per Harry Mendryk's blog at the Kirby Museum.
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Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Ali Ghazam
Zoot! Fighting American and Speedboy are putty in the hands of the great Ali Ghazam!
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Colors credit from Greg Theakston.
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Deadly Doolittle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Icy-Fingers McTouch; Stumblebaum; Stickpin; Iggy; Marilyn Biltrite; Deadly Doolittle; Munneybelt; Hooley
Marilyn Biltrite steals Munneybelt's diamonds but the mob is on her tail. Fighting American saves her and gives her a chance to turn her life around.
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Super-Khakalovitch...Boy Has-Been!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Super Khakalovitch; Charity Bizarre
Communists send their "superman", Super Khakalovitch, to America to kill Fighting American but once he arrives in America he decides he likes it better than his homeland.
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Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Professor
Look, Fighting American! The horses have sprouted wings!
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Colors and inks credits from Greg Theakston.
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Sneak of Araby

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
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
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.
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Three Coins in the Pushcart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Carl Wessler
John Prentice
John Prentice ?; Joe Simon ?
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Subject Matter
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Skudnik; Yakfoot; Grummel; Gorgeous Georgia [Gloria Swandive]
Communists send three agents, dressed as the Fighting American, to sabotage his reputation.
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John Prentice pencils per Harry Mendryk's Simon and Kirby blog. Carl Wessler script per Robin Snyder, from Wessler's record books.
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About Space-Face

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Carl Wessler
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
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
Someone is stealing government secrets and the prime suspect is the alien Space-Face.
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Wessler script per Robin Snyder, via Wessler's record books. Originally titled "Out of This World".
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Jack Kirby (signed)
Joe Simon (signed)
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Ben Oda ?
Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Round Robin
Look out! It's Round Robin!
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Round Robin!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Howard Fergusen ?; Ben Oda
Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Round Robin (introduction); Yakima Fuldoon; Floyd Dragnet
Police chief Floyd Dragnet calls on Fighting American and Speedboy to help capture the crook Round Robin.
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Roman Scoundrels

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby ?
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Howard Fergusen ?
Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Commissar Yutz (villain, introduction, death); Shepard Shoestring (introduction); Rupert Blatzbier (introduction); Theda Barracuda (introduction); Eric Von Junkheap (introduction)
Fighting American and Speedboy travel to Hollywood to be in a motion picture but the movie is being directed by communists who want to kill them.
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The Secret of Yafata's Moustache

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby ?
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Howard Fergusen ?
Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Viva Yafata [Harvey Nibble] (villain, introduction); Bosworth Nibble; La Mombo; El Ropo (villain, introduction); Jispers
Bosworth Nibble contacts the Fighting American to ask him to go to Mexico to find his son, Harvey Nibble, who he believes has been captured by bandits.
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The Beef Box

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American and Speedboy
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Allan Pain; Gulnik; Transmittor Man
Gulnik, an alien from Mars, comes to Earth to stop the TV signals that are polluting the Martian airwaves.
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Originally intended for Fighting American (Harvey, 1966 series) #2.
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The Mad Inker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?
Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?
Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fighting American
Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; The Mad Inker [Inky]
Inky, the inker of the Fighting American comic book goes on a crime spree.
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Originally intended for Fighting American (Harvey, 1966 series) #2. Because Joe Simon had lost the original first page of the story, the original cover for that unpublished issue was substituted as the splash page to this story.

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