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Issue: The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #2
Publication Date: February 2015
 
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Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 12/02/2015
Volume: 2
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781401258177
UPC/EAN: 978140125817754999
Price: $58.00 CAD
$49.99 USD
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Content Items: 36 (29 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: 7" x 10.5"
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Binding: Hardbound with Dustjacket
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]
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Table of Contents

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Don't Sit Out This War!

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Let me admit something up front: I've never been a fan of war comics.
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Dated July 2015.
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The Trial of Captain Carter

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Major Hatton; General Hatton
Order of the Day: All commando units will take orders from Captain Ernest Noel...
A British major screws up a mission by firing a signal flare where the Germans can see it, but Captain Carter covers for him.
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Double for Death

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Angus McQuirt; Annie McQuirt; Herr Oberst; Kapitan Braun; Heinrich Ganz
Order of the Day: Did you boys ever hear the one about the Scotsman who..?
The Commandos try to save a man mis-identified as a Nazi spy.
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Message to Murmansk

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Comrade Ostrov; Major Wolfe
Order of the Day: Attack Hidden Nazi submarine base on Norwegian coast...
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Boy Commandos #3

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]
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A Film from the Front ---Uncensored

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Spud Mattson; Grimes; Captain Gordon
Order of the Day: Call for volunteers!
The commandos are accompanied on a raid into Greece by a newsreel photographer.
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War Album No. 1 -- The Siege of Troy

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Menelaus; Helen; Odysseus; Paris
Commandos are not new!
A story of the commandos set in the Trojan War.
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Cyril Thwaite Rides Again--

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Cyril Thwaite
Order of the Day: This commando unit will retire...
Cyril impersonates a German general and captures a regiment.
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The Return of Agent Axis

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Agent Axis
Brave me shudder at the sound of the name which has become synonymous with evil itself...
A young woman asks the Commandos for protection from Agent Axis.
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The Invasion of America

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Kid Commandos [Sally Noonan; Slats McGuiness]; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Newsboy Legion [Big Words; Scrapper; Gabby; Tommy Thompkins]; Guardian [Jim Harper]; Doktor Gruenigg; Heinrich; August; Erich
Order of the Day: The Boy Commandos will report immediately to the undersigned aboard the U.S.S State City...
The Boys are sent on a good will tour of the US as representatives of "four great nations united for the liberation of the world." But the Nazis think it would be a great propaganda victory to kidnap them right in the middle of their celebration.
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The Valley of Destiny

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Sarkis; General Von Konk; Doctor Grubble; Boering; Baron Shohiro; General Saki; Yuma Hara; Wise One; Doctor Cairne
Order of the Day: All commandos are hereby cautioned to use extreme care...
A mystical monk brings representative samples of modern civilization to the lost Valley of Destiny to determine if civilization is worthy to learn its secrets.
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Freedom Station

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Werner; Adolf Hitler
Order of the Day: Commandos to your posts!
The Commandos try to set up an underground radio station in Germany.
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Sand Dunes of Death!

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Nahoum; Ahmed
Order of the Day: Remnants of Rommel's troops holding out in the hills...
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Kirby pencils and Simon inker or co-inker per Nick Caputo. Craig Delich credited Simon on pencils and Kirby on inks.
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Boy Commandos #4

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]
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The Invasion of Europe! [Chapter 1] Flames at Dawn!

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]
Order of the Day: The General Staff has ordered a full-scale invasion of Europe.
The Commandos participate in D-Day, months before it actually happens.
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[The Invasion of Europe!] Chapter 2: Brooklyn Revere's Ride!

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Boy Commandos [Brooklyn; Alfy Twidgett]; Pere Hugo
Time was when soldiers were taught to kill soldiers...
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[The Invasion of Europe!] Chapter 3: The Madman of Mt. Cloud!

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Colonel Von Bleemer; Doctor Zeeda
The torch...a devil's weapon in the hands of those who hate...
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[The Invasion of Europe!] Chapter 4: Toinette the Terrible

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Toinette
War is a deadly business...
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[The Invasion of Europe!] Chapter 5: West Meets East

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Lieutenant Shastovitch
First there was the merest whisper of something huge and metllic coasting down from the sky...
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[The Invasion of Europe!] Chapter 6: Bugle of the Brave

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Jules Anton; Mayor Anton; Elmo
Through centuries that have wateched the rise and fall of many warlords...
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The Duce Gets a Hotfoot

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Professor Ferno; Giovanni; Domini
Order of the Day: Taking off for the island of Sicily...
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The Baronet of Bodkin Borders

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Henry Tuttbridge; George Tuttbridge; Heinrich; Bruga
Order of the Day: When off duty, commandos should never consider themselves to busy to lend a helping hand...
The Commandos help a down-on-his-luck gardener convince his son that he's a baronet.
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Yankee Doodle Dynamite

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; General Douglas MacArthur
Order of the Day: Captain Rip Carter is on a furlough wid (sic) us Boy Commandos!
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Golden Victory

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Adolf HItler
Order of the Day: Subject: Securing arctic equipment for mountain terrain!
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Boy Commandos #5

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]
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Assignment in Norway

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Jeanne D'Arcy; Sally Richards
Order of the Day: The Boy Commandos will report to Headquarters...
Jeanne and Sally of the Bomber Ferry Command fly new Bombers from the America to England to be used in the war; through Hurricanes, if necessary. And, sometimes, they land in occupied Norway by mistake.
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A Town to Remember

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; John Hussite
Order of the Day: Destination: Unknown?
Set in Czechoslovakia. A dead man masterminds a plot to save his fellow villagers from the Nazis.
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The Mysterious Mr Mulani

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Boy Commandos [Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Lieutenant Mike Mulani
Order of the Day: Spies and saboteurs are loose in London...
The Commandos suspect Lt. Mulani of being a spy.
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Satan to See You!

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Bleak; General Krueg; Lord Burpshire
Order of the Day: Our Nazi prisoner has requested a heavy guard...
In 1933 General Krueg sold his soul for 10 years of fame and fortune.
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The Romance of Rip Carter

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Sergeant Hooker; Carlo Ravissi; Captain Groggins; Lieutenant Nevil; Augustino; Rigo; Enrico Cardi
Order of the Day: Rasalink K. is making her debut tonight...
The Boy Commandos fail in their mission to blow up a railway tunnel, but the plane that was carrying them manages to destroy the tunnel without any crew aboard.
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The Triumph of Cholly the Chimp

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Cholly; Herr Von Pigh; Stoohl
Order of the Day: Commandos will try to refrain from using the term 'Ape' to describe Japs and Nazis...
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A Wreath for Sir Edgar of Wimpledowne

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Sir Edgar: Lord Wimpledowne
Order of the Day: All commando units are reminded that the fight to protect the innocent can be waged behind the battle lines...
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Curtain Call for Action

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Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; André Chavard; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett]; Agent Axis; General Blayfield
Order of the Day: Don your wigs, brush up on your dialogue and hit the footlights...
General Blayfield orders the Commandos executed for treason.
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