CATALOG RECORD
The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #1
Dates
- Cover date
- 2010 [January 2011]
- On sale
- November 24, 2010
- Pages
- 264
Editions and covers
Creators
Stories
- The Boy Commandos: An Introduction · 5 pages
A look at the Boy Commandos from a historical perspective and their unique relationship to World War II.
- The Commandos Are Coming! · 12 pages
LaFarge joins the Commandos to help free Victor Renaud from the Gestapo.
- Nostradamus Predicts · 13 pages
Rip tries to send the boys to school. Nostradamus predicts Hitler and the Boy Commandos.
- The Sphinx Speaks · 12 pages
In the year 3045 A.D., scholars unearth an ancient battlefield and try to reconstruct what happened there.
- Escape to Disaster · 12 pages
A gangster trying to escape from the American law runs afoul of the Nazis and the Boy Commandos.
- The Treachery of Osuki · 12 pages
The boys end up shipwrecked in the Pacific with a Japanese pilot, but without Rip Carter.
- The Siege of Krovka · 12 pages
The Nazis, ordered by Hitler to keep advancing their positions, come across a stubborn group of citizens at Krovka, and the commanding general orders the town leveled. But the Commandos volunteer to help out and take on the Nazis with an added fervor.
- Fury Rides a Taxicab · 12 pages
A cabdriver from Brooklyn takes on the Nazis single-handed.
- The Luck of the Lepparts · 13 pages
The last living Leppart is haunted by his ancestors' curse: to die by one of the four elements.
- The Town That Couldn't Be Conquered · 12 pages
The Commandos liberate Jan's village in the Netherlands.
- Heroes Never Die · 12 pages
The Commandos hear a story of an earlier group of adventurers in China.
- Satan Wears a Swastika · 12 pages
The boys are mistakenly reported killed in battle.
- Ghost Raiders · 12 pages
The Commandos stage a raid into France at the behest of a French Resistance ghost.
- A Break for Santa · 12 pages
Rip and the Boys steal an allied plane in order to rescue a sick boy's father from a Nazi prison camp.
- Petals of Peril · 12 pages
- The Saga of the Little Tin Box · 12 pages
The Boys escape from a German firing squad somewhere in the African rainforest.
- The Battle of the Big Top · 13 pages
- The Silent People Speak · 12 pages
The Commandos stage a raid into the Netherlands in support of the underground resistance.
- On the Double, M'Lord! · 12 pages
An English lord finds himself a private in a unit with his manservant as drill sergeant.
- The Knights Wore Khaki · 12 pages
The Commandos liberate the castle of Camelon.
- Nine Lives for Victory · 9 pages
The Commandos stage a successful raid into France with the aid of Brooklyn's kitten.
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby · 0 pages
Brief biographies of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.