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Fighting American HC (1989 Marvel) comic books

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Fighting American HC (1989 Marvel) 1-1ST

    1st printing. Collects Fighting American (1954 Headline/Prize) #1-7 and Fighting American (1966 Harvey) #1.

    Written by Carl Wessler, Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. Art by John Prentice, George Tuska, Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. Cover by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon.

    After Marvel's first revival of Captain America, Cap creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby responded with another star-spangled patriot, who soon became a spoof of the superhero genre.

    This volume collects the Fighting Americans 1950s adventures from the Prize and Harvey series, as well as a previously unpublished story, "The Beef Box", originally intended for Fighting American (1966 Harvey) #2. Also featuring introductions by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby about the character and his era.

    First Came the Pants; Fighting American -- Innovation and Quality; Break the Spy Ring; Track Down the Baby Buzz Bombs; Duel to the Finish Line!; The League of the Handsome Devils!; Find the King of the Crime Syndicate; Investigate the City of Ghouls; The Man Who Sold Out Liberty!; Stranger from Paradise; Poison Ivan and Hotsky Trotski; Z Food; Tokyo Run Around; Home-Coming Year 3000; Operation Wolf; Follow the Dangerous Trail of Jiseppi the Jungle Boy; The Year Bender; Invisible Irving the Great Nothing; Deadly Doolittle; Super-Khakalovitch; The Sneak of Araby; Three Coins in the Pushcart; Ask Fighting American and Speedboy about Space-Face; Round Robin!; Roman Scoundrels; The Secret of Yafata's Moustache; The Beef Box.

    Hardcover, 200 pages, Full Color.

    Cover price $35.95.