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Publisher: Harvey

Title: Fighting American
Issue: 1
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: October 1966
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Joe Simon; Leon Harvey

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Fighting American 1
Owner: Seanfingh

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Fighting American
Pages:1
Pencils:Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks:Joe Simon (signed)
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:superhero
Characters:Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Round Robin


Story Title: Round Robin! - comic story
Features:Fighting American
Pages:6
Pencils:Jack Kirby; Joe Simon (see notes)
Inks:Joe Simon
Letters:Howard Ferguson; Ben Oda
Genre:superhero
Characters:Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Round Robin (introduction); Yakima Fuldoon; Floyd Dragnet
Synopsis:Police chief Floyd Dragnet calls on Fighting American and Speedboy to help capture the crook Round Robin.


Story Title: Peter Piper's Red Vipers - comic story
Features:Fighting American
Pages:10
Pencils:Jack Kirby
Inks:Joe Simon
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:superhero
Characters:Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Martha Von Lohded; Mary Stewart; Peter Piper
Synopsis: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.


Story Title: Roman Scoundrels - comic story
Features:Fighting American
Pages:8
Pencils:Jack Kirby
Inks:Jack Kirby; Joe Simon ?
Letters:Howard Ferguson
Genre:superhero
Characters: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)
Synopsis: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.


Story Title: Duel to the Finish Line - comic story
Features:Fighting American
Pages:7
Pencils:Jack Kirby
Inks:Joe Simon
Letters:Ben Oda
Characters:Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Mary Grady; Gnortz; Bohltz; Dan Grady
Synopsis: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.


Story Title: Fighting American: The Hero Who Laughed at Himself - text article
Pages:2
Pencils:Jack Kirby
Inks:Joe Simon
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Find the King of the Crime Syndicate - comic story
Features:Fighting American
Pages:7
Pencils:Jack Kirby
Inks:Joe Simon
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:superhero
Characters:Fighting American [Nelson Flagg; Johnny Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Doubleheader [Casper Dewberry] (first appearance, villain); Mary Stewart
Synopsis: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.


Story Title: The League of the Handsome Devils! - comic story
Features:Fighting American
Pages:9
Pencils:Jack Kirby
Inks:Joe Simon
Letters:Ben Oda
Characters: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
Synopsis:The Fighting American and Speedboy battle a group of muggers who kill their victims and are only identified as "handsome devils" by eye witnesses.


Story Title: Flash Farrell Gets the Picture at Goodyear Aerospace - advertisement
Pages:1
Pencils:Neal Adams
Inks:Neal Adams


Story Title: You'll Never See The Likes of Them Again - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Pencils:Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Inks:Joe Simon; Jack Kirby ?
Letters:Joe Rosen; Ben Oda


Story Title: The Secret of Yafata's Moustache - comic story
Features:Fighting American
Pages:7
Pencils:Jack Kirby
Inks:Jack Kirby; Joe Simon ?
Letters:Howard Ferguson
Genre:superhero
Characters:Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Viva Yafata [Harvey Nibble] (villain, introduction); Bosworth Nibble; La Mombo; El Ropo (villain, introduction); Jispers
Synopsis: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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