Category Archives: Kid Gang

Star Spangled Comics #35 [1944] – Cover

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Bob

This is one of the cover-only S&K books from when the boys were off in the service. Not really one of my favourites of those, seems to be something a bit off in the inking, but the looks on the faces is nice, and the thugs coming in from the back are a good touch.

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Published 1944

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Who’s Who – The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #3 [1985]

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Bob

Two Kirby drawn entries in this issue of DC’s character index series, both inked by Greg Theakston.

First up is Willie Walker in his largely unexplained guise as the spirit of death among the New Gods, the Black Racer. Pretty good collage of images, although, yeah, that cosmic skier thing still looks weird.

Going back a generation we get the Boy Commandos and their adult sidekick Rip Carter, with a wartime action pose and headshots of all the members, including the lesser known post-war replacements Tex and Percy (oddly appearing in the war scene, as if they helped liberate us from the axis powers).

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Published 1985

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Star Spangled Comics #51 [1945] – Cover

Posted on February 17, 2007 by Bob

Some nice goofy Golden Age fun on this cover, from the robot having a machine gun hand to it being clearly labelled “Robot Robber”. a lot of nice detailing on the robot, where you can see the genesis of some of the increasingly wild machines Kirby would design in later years.

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Published 1945

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Star Spangled Comics #40 [1945] – Cover

Posted on February 22, 2006 by Bob

STAR SPANGLED COMICS #40, 1945. Boy, is that a complicated flying machine for robbing a bank. If it actually works, you could sell the patent for more than a bank robbery would haul in, and not get beat up by a bunch of kids and a moonlighting cop.

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Boy Commandos #13 [1945] – Cover

Posted on February 21, 2006 by Bob

BOY COMMANDOS #13 – 1945. Nothing like some patriotic propaganda late in the war, actually the final war-themed cover for the series. Of course, the boys would be coming home for stateside adventures soon, and had already lost one member for this cover.

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