{"id":659,"date":"2007-01-21T22:15:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T22:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/archives\/659"},"modified":"2007-01-21T22:15:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T22:15:57","slug":"featured-cover-fighting-american-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/archives\/659","title":{"rendered":"Featured Cover, Fighting American #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fighting
\nFighting American #3 (August 1954) by Jack Kirby<\/p>\n

In a comment recently, Mike made a request for post on Fighting American. Well it happens that I just finished restoring the cover to Fighting American #3. The first two issues of FA were pretty much the standard action hero format. Fighting America and Speedboy were Simon and Kirby’s remake of their own patriotic heroes Captain America and Bucky. Atlas Comics had recently brought out a cold war version of Captain America along with the Human Torch and Sub-Mariner. However the times had changed and despite Joe McCarthy, or perhaps because of him, the public did not consider the Communists as quite the same threat as the Nazis. Atlas Comic’s Captain America did not last long but Simon and Kirby adjusted to the times. With issue #3, Fighting American adopted a more humorous approach. Yes the Commies were still the villains, but nobody was meant to take Poison Ivan and Hotsky Trotski seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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