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BOY COMMANDOS #1
Cover Date: Winter 1942-3
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1942-11-07
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks: Joe Simon (signed)
Colors: Jack Kirby
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Credits:
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Joe Simon |
| Lettering | Howard Ferguson |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Nazi soldiers (first appearance for all; Major Von Glutt named (dies); many die)
Location(s):
- London, England
- Vannders, Holland
Story Reprinted in:
- The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #1 (October 2010)
Credits:
| Story | Jack Kirby |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Joe Simon |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Japanese soldiers (first appearance for all; many die)
Other Character(s):
- Lin Fan (first appearance; an elderly Chinese man who remembers another Rip Carter and his young friends)
Location(s):
- China
Story Reprinted in:
- Boy Commandos Vol. 2 #1 (September-October 1973)
- The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #1 (October 2010)
Credits:
| Story | Jack Kirby |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Joe Simon |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Agent Axis (first appearance; next in issue #3/3)
- Nazi soldiers (first appearance for all; many die)
Guest Appearance(s):
- Newsboy Legion:
- Big Words (in between Star Spangled Comics #16 and #17)
- Tommy Thompkins (in between Star Spangled Comics #16 and #17)
- Gabby (in between Star Spangled Comics #16 and #17)
- Scrapper (in between Star Spangled Comics #16 and #17)
- Sandman (in between Adventure Comics #82 and #83)
Other Character(s):
- Jack Schiff, Jack Liebowitz and Whitney Ellsworth (first appearance; National Comics Editorial Staff)
- Jack Kirby and Joe Simon (first appearance; creators of the Boy Commandos strip)
- The Wealthy Midgets (first appearance for all; Milton Small named, along with his butler, Jameson, are mistaken for the Boy Commandos; all die)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
- Berlin, Germany
Story Reprinted in:
- Mister Miracle Vol. 1 #6 (January-February 1972)
- The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #1 (October 2010)
Credits:
| Story | Don Cameron |
| Art | Chuck Winter |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
- Liberty Belle (first appearance; a news commentator who fights the Axis menace; last in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #7/2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Major James Lawrence (first appearance; military attache of the US Embassy; last in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #7/2; dies in flashback)
- Captain Rickey Cannon (first appearance; an agent of G-2 who disguises himself as a Nazi agent)
- Tom Revere (first appearance; guard of the Liberty Bell)
Villain(s):
- Nazis (invade Poland, Holland and France in flashback)
- Herr Wolfe (first appearance; a Nazi spy)
Location(s):
- Poland (in flashback)
- Dunkirk, France (in flashback)
- Philadelphia, PA
Comment(s):
- This story is retold with new information in All-Star Squadron #61)
Credits:
| Story | Jack Kirby |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Joe Simon |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Nazi soldiers (first appearance for all; many die)
Location(s):
- Paris, France
- Berchtesgarden, Germany
Story Reprinted in:
- The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #1 (October 2010)