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Issue: Fighting American #5 (5)
Publication Date: December 1954
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Issues: #5 (5) of 7 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPrize
Brand: Prize Group
Indicia Publisher: Headline Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Jack Kirby
Colorist(s): Jack Kirby
Letterer(s): Howard Ferguson
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Fighting American
Character(s): Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]
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In Content Item: FlagFighting American #[nn] published January 1989
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Jiseppi the Jungle Boy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Kirby ?; Joe Simon ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Jack Kirby; Joe Simon ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Howard Ferguson
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Fighting American
Character(s): Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Jiseppi (first appearance); Sir Cedric Hardwhack; Pamela Hardwhack; Pastrami (tiger); Fat Maria
Synopsis: 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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In Content Item: FlagFighting American #[nn] published January 1989
as Jiseppi the Jungle Boy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Red Agent

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Year Bender

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Kirby ?; Joe Simon ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Joe Simon
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Howard Ferguson
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Fighting American
Character(s): Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Prof. Dyle Twister (first appearance); Gregory
Synopsis: 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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In Content Item: FlagFighting American #[nn] published January 1989
as The Year Bender [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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No Greater Glory

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dick Malm
Inker(s): Dick Malm
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Poor Richard
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Invisible Irving, the Great Nothing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Kirby ?; Joe Simon ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Joe Simon
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Fighting American
Character(s): Fighting American [Johnny Flagg; Nelson Flagg]; Speedboy [Dan Sprite]; Invisible Irving (first appearance; villain); Freddy Fowlup
Synopsis: Invisible Irving escapes from Alcatraz and sets up a racket brainwashing people and getting them to steal from their employers.
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In Content Item: FlagFighting American #[nn] published January 1989
as Invisible Irving the Great Nothing [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story swiped from Starman story in Adventure Comics #77, per Harry Mendryk's blog at the Kirby Museum.

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