{"id":138,"date":"2004-12-05T23:51:58","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T04:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2004\/12\/05\/brave-and-the-bold-annual-no-1-the-invasion-of-america\/"},"modified":"2004-12-05T23:51:58","modified_gmt":"2004-12-06T04:51:58","slug":"brave-and-the-bold-annual-no-1-the-invasion-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/138","title":{"rendered":"Brave and the Bold Annual, No 1, 1969 Issue [2001] &#8211; The Invasion of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of DC&#8217;s best reprint lines in recent years have been their 80 and 100-page Giant books, mixing in &#8220;replica&#8221; editions of actual giants from the 1960s and 1970s with &#8220;lost&#8221; editions, books designed to look like they could have been published back then.  This book is designed to look like it could have been a 1969 BRAVE AND THE BOLD annual (although it contains a Captain Atom story from Charlton, which wouldn&#8217;t have been in there).<\/p>\n<p>Among the contents is a 1943 Boy Commandos story by Simon&amp;Kirby, reprinted from DETECTIVE COMICS #76.  The logic of it being in a team-up title is that there are brief cameos by the other S&amp;K stars of the time, Sandman and the Newsboy Legion (oddly, the cover of this issue bills it as a Newsboy Legion \/ Sandman crossover, not even mentioning the actual stars of the story) (also oddly, the credits have Kirby as writer and inker, with Simon as penciler, which doesn&#8217;t seem likely).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/bb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1924\" title=\"bb\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/bb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/bb.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/bb-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/bb-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/bb-624x920.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the 12-page adventure has Rip Carter and the boys making a trip to New York for a goodwill tour, and finding themselves kidnapped by German spies.  Along the way, the encounter their fan club, the Kid Commandos, led by Sally from Flatbush, who get around on a variety of go-carts, and in the end meet FDR.  It&#8217;s a fast-moving adventure, a great example of the kid-gang genre and patriotic wartime comics.  I did think the accents of the foreign characters (especially the Germans and the British Boy Commando Alfie) were a bit overdone and distracting, but other than that it was all fun.<\/p>\n<p>Published 2001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of DC&#8217;s best reprint lines in recent years have been their 80 and 100-page Giant books, mixing in &#8220;replica&#8221; editions of actual giants from the 1960s and 1970s with &#8220;lost&#8221; editions, books designed to look like they could have been published back then. This book is designed to look like it could have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-kid-gang","category-superhero","category-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}