Dates
- Cover date
- October 1966
- On sale
- July 15, 1966
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition25¢ coverSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Round Robin! · 5.25 pages
Police chief Floyd Dragnet calls on Fighting American and Speedboy to help capture the crook Round Robin.
- Peter Piper's Red Vipers · 10 pages
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.
- Meet Speedboy · 0.75 pages
- Roman Scoundrels · 8 pages
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.
- Duel to the Finish Line! · 7 pages
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.
- Fighting American: The Hero Who Laughed at Himself · 2 pages
- Find the King of the Crime Syndicate · 7 pages
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.
- The League of the Handsome Devils! · 9 pages
The Fighting American and Speedboy battle a group of muggers who kill their victims and are only identified as "handsome devils" by eye witnesses.
- The Secret of Yafata's Moustache · 7 pages
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.
Characters
Reprinted in
Fighting American (1989), The Simon and Kirby Library (2010), Fighting American (2011)