Kirby Saturday: Operation Wolf!
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Operation Wolf!
In the 1950s, blood was in the water for people who exhibited just the slightest bit of socialist thought and the premiere comic propaganda team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby decided to do a communist-fighter that borrowed from their Captain America from the war years. Fighting American's first few stories are straightforward "Red Is Bad" pieces with the occasional goofy bit, but that soon changed. Public opinion turned against McCarthy quickly and Simon and Kirby changed the tone of the book accordingly.
Now packed with completely over-the-top villains, goofy asides, and the occasional poke at nationalistic zeal, the first Fighting American series lasted a whopping six issues. A few gags, such as Fighting American punching a thug's head through a wall in one story and the poor bastard just hanging there for the rest of the tale, still kill me after reading them for the umpteenth time. This story, Operation Wolf, is one of my favorites. Enjoy.
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