Fighting American Vol. 1

Illustrated by Duke Mighten
Created by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby
Paperback
$16.99 US
On sale Apr 17, 2018 | 112 Pages | 9781785862106
Fighting American is the fantastic return of Jack Kirby and Joe Simon's legendary super hero, originally created back in 1954.

When Johnny Flagg A.K.A. FIGHTING AMERICAN and his young teenage sidekick, SPEEDBOY find themselves marooned in the 21st Century with no way to return they do the only thing they can do. They carry on regardless. Bringing some much-needed two-fisted justice and home-spun 1950s attitudes to a modern, media-obsessed cynical world as they battle a gang of villains plucked from their past and a mysterious villainess known only as Lady Chaos.
Gordon Rennie is a Scottish comics writer, who has written both the comics and videogame and gaming industries since 1991 and his first published work in Blast! Magazine. He went on to creat the cult classic White Trash: Moronic Inferno, for Toxic! as well as several comic strips for 2000 AD and novels for Warhammer Fantasy. For 2000 AD he created Missionary Man, Witch World and Rain Dogs, Necronauts and Caballistics, Inc. He also wrote Mean Machine and the return of Rogue Trooper.

Rennie has done a lot of work on computer games and was nominated for the 2006 BAFTA for his script on the Rogue Trooper game as well as a nomination for the 2012 Writers' Guild of Great Britain's Best Videogame Script award.

Duke Mighten got his first professional job after being discovered at an UK comic convention by Pat Mills. He went on to draw Brats Bizarre and Accident Man for the cult British comic Toxic! Dark Angel for Marvel UK and Judge Dredd and Shimura for Judge Dredd Megazine. He currently lives and works in Sidney Australia as an art director and concept artist working in the games industry.

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Fighting American is the fantastic return of Jack Kirby and Joe Simon's legendary super hero, originally created back in 1954.

When Johnny Flagg A.K.A. FIGHTING AMERICAN and his young teenage sidekick, SPEEDBOY find themselves marooned in the 21st Century with no way to return they do the only thing they can do. They carry on regardless. Bringing some much-needed two-fisted justice and home-spun 1950s attitudes to a modern, media-obsessed cynical world as they battle a gang of villains plucked from their past and a mysterious villainess known only as Lady Chaos.

Author

Gordon Rennie is a Scottish comics writer, who has written both the comics and videogame and gaming industries since 1991 and his first published work in Blast! Magazine. He went on to creat the cult classic White Trash: Moronic Inferno, for Toxic! as well as several comic strips for 2000 AD and novels for Warhammer Fantasy. For 2000 AD he created Missionary Man, Witch World and Rain Dogs, Necronauts and Caballistics, Inc. He also wrote Mean Machine and the return of Rogue Trooper.

Rennie has done a lot of work on computer games and was nominated for the 2006 BAFTA for his script on the Rogue Trooper game as well as a nomination for the 2012 Writers' Guild of Great Britain's Best Videogame Script award.

Duke Mighten got his first professional job after being discovered at an UK comic convention by Pat Mills. He went on to draw Brats Bizarre and Accident Man for the cult British comic Toxic! Dark Angel for Marvel UK and Judge Dredd and Shimura for Judge Dredd Megazine. He currently lives and works in Sidney Australia as an art director and concept artist working in the games industry.

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