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#JackKirby - The Commandos Are Coming!!! 💥💥💥 Jack Kirby and Joe Simon are most well known for co-creating Captain America... but what if I told you they had another war themed comic creation besides the Star Spangled hero... and came from DC Comics, not Marvel??? 💥💥💥 The Boy Commandos first appeared in June of 1942 in Detective Comics #Issue64 over at DC Comics. Having left Timely Comics (now Marvel) over a royalties discrepancy, they were hired by National (DC) Comics and allowed to create numerous titles. The Sandman, Manhunter and others were produced... but one of their most successful creations had to be The Boy Commandos!!! 💥💥💥 The team consists of: Andre (France), Alfie (Britain), Jan (Netherlands) and Brooklyn (USA)... all kid soldiers from around the globe stationed in Europe. They are led by Captain Rip Carter and fight against the “Ratzies” (their juvenile but accurate nickname for the Nazi’s) across the European theater of war! 💥💥💥 Pic 1 of this post shows Simon (on the left) and Kirby (on the right) posing at the drafting table with the opening splash page featuring the team... Kirby is credited with the story and pencils, and Simon is credited with editing and inking! In Pic 2 we see the actual colored and printed page as it appeared in Detective Comics #64. The pic is credited as 1941, so it’s possible they were working on these characters and this issue up to 6 months in advance of publication!!! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #Kirby #KingKirby #JoeSimon #KirbyAndSimon #SimonAndKirby #BoyCommandos #DetectiveComics #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #40sComics #ComicsOfThe40s #IGComics #SimonAndKirbyStudios https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu4DPSgBDW8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xwd39w6z37je

#JackedKirby - A Personal Sketch To The King... From The King!!! 👑👑👑 Before the era of constant repackaging and reprinting of former issues into collections/graphic novels collectors did not have anywhere near the outlets to read back issues of their favorite books. Other then fan made “collected” books that took ACTUAL issues and bound them together from a professional bookmaker, we rarely got a one shot deal that collected multiple issues. But if the King asks, the king shall receive.... 👑👑👑 What we have here is a pencil sketch that appeared in a personal collection of Boy Commando comics. He had the full run collected into a hard-covered leather bound edition, and he sketched this awesome team shot on the interior cover!!! It’s a dedication fit for a King... TO THE KING!!! 👑👑👑 This sketch, like many of Kirby’s personal creations from his own collection, was printed in The Jack Kirby Collector Volume 10 #Issue34 (March/April 2002) from Two Morrows publishing. TJKC had unbelievable access from the Kirby Estate to these types of personal sketches... things that have never (or would never) have seen the light of day previously. 👑👑👑 The Boy Commandos have never looked so great... Alfie, Andre, Jan, Brooklyn and Rip Carter are a team of soldiers from all over the globe that have combined forces to battle the Nazis... and in this one beauty of a personal collection we got these amazing headshots from Jack. Thanks to Two Morrows for republishing this goodness!!!! 👑👑👑 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #BoyCommandos #TJKC #TheJackKirbyCollector #PencilSketch #CollectedEdition #ComicCollections #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #IGComics #IGComicBooks #IGComicCommunity #PersonalCollection #PencilSketch #twomorrowspublishing https://www.instagram.com/p/BsLVG5_hmMA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=100pdicw9g19t

#JackedKirby - The Boy Commandos meet Batman!!! 💥💥💥 Back in the early 40s Jack and his partner Joe Simon were making a name for themselves over at DC Comics. They had the Newsboy Legion and the Guardian, The Sandman and the Boy Commandos in full swing as the country inched closer to war... a war that Jack and Joe would both be fighting in a bit later on. 💥💥💥 The Boy Commandos were quite popular around this time, so the DC brass decided to put them into one of their lead books, Detective Comics. Detective Comics has become synonymous with Batman over the years... but originally it had more of an Anthology Style. So the powers that be enlisted Simon/Kirby to include a Boy Commando story.... and even gave them some cover space to strut their stuff!!! 💥💥💥 The cover image is credited to Kirby, Simon and Jerry Robinson. If I had to guess I’d say the Kirby/Simon drew the Boys and Robinson drew Bats for the sake of artistic continuity. Then the title placards and blurbs would be added. 💥💥💥 Inside the issue the Batman story (a great one called the “ The Cop who hated Batman) appeared first, with the Commando story (Nostradamus Predicts...) coming up second. I’ve also included the opening splash of the Commando’s story to show off Kirby/Simon’s pre WWII art style... Really love the way they did these war era stories, and the art is killer!!! Just a year later these two brave men would be putting themselves INTO THE VERY SAME WAR they had drawn about for years... pretty incredible! 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #BoyCommandos #Batman #DetectiveComics #AnthologyComic #40sComics #ComicsOfThe40s #KirbySimon #KirbyCovers #Comic #Comics #igcomiccommunity #ComicsOfIG #IGComics #WWII #WarComics

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