Boy Commandos

Boy Commandos was a comic book series created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. The series was a combination of kid gang comics and war comics. The eponymous characters were Andre Chevard from France, Alfie Twidgett from England, Jan Haasan from the Netherlands, and "Brooklyn" from America. They were an elite commando squad made up of orphan children led by Captain Rip Carter who fought on all fronts of the Second World War.

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Comic book - Joe Simon - Jack Kirby - Kid gang comics - Second World War

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The idea of children fighting at war is irresponsible at best to the modern adult, but to the children of the 1940s, who were unaware of the horrors of war, it was wish fulfillment. The series debuted in Detective Comics (which had previously on had only featured stories about characters who in some sense were detectives). The feature became extremely popular soon earning the characters a space in World's Finest Comics and eventually there own comic. The series remain popular even after the war, when the international group was gradually replaced with an all American one. Despite it's past popularity it has now become rather obscure today.

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