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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published Winter 1942-43
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Andre; Jan; Alfy
Genre war; children
Pencils Jck Kirby
Inks Joe Simon

12 page Boy Commandos story "The Town That Couldn't Be Conquered!"

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Jan; Andre; Alfie; Von Glutt
Synopsis The Commandos liberate Jan's village in the Netherlands.
Genre war; children
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Joe Simon (signed)
Letters Howard Ferguson

2 page Behind the 8-Ball story "Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main - n - n..."

Genre humor; children

12 page Boy Commandos story "Heroes Never Die"

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Jan; Andre; Alfie
Synopsis The Commandos hear a story of an earlier group of adventurers in China.
Genre war; children
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Reprinted in Boy Commandos (DC, 1973 series) #1

2 page text story "Close Shave"

Script John Hilton
Letters typeset

12 page Boy Commandos story "Satan Wears a Swastika"

Characters Boy Commandos; Rip Carter; Joe Simon; Jack Kirby; Newsboy Legion; Sandman; Sandy; V: Agent Axis; Jack Schiff; Jack Liebowitz; Whitney Ellsworth.
Synopsis The boys are mistakenly reported killed in battle.
Genre war; children
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Joe Simon (signed)
Letters Howard Ferguson
Notes Kirby drawn Ellsworth, Schiff and Liebowitz into story verified on page 19 of Alter Ego #76.
Reprinted in Mister Miracle (DC, 1971 series) #6 (February 1972); in Best of Simon and Kirby, The (Titan Books, 2009 series) #[nn]

1 page Jerry the Jitterbug story "It's a swell day for fishing!"

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)

10 page Liberty Belle story "For Freedom-- For Justice-- For America-- We give You Liberty Belle!"

Characters Liberty Belle [Libby Lawrence] (first appearance); Rickey Cannon; Tom Revere
Synopsis The origin of Liberty Belle
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron (signed)
Pencils Chuck Winter (signed)
Inks Chuck Winter
Notes Information from Darci and "Mike's Amazing World of DC Comics" (http://www.dcindexes.com/database/story-details.php?storyid=11565), accessed 6/8/2006.

1 page Private Pete filler "The sarge told me to hang up these signs!"

Genre war; humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)

12 page Boy Commandos story "Ghost Raiders"

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Alfie; Jan; Andre; Francois Girard; Com.Allison; Heinrich Himmler;
Synopsis The Commandos stage a raid into France at the behest of a French Resistance ghost.
Genre war; children
Script Jack Kirby ?
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon