Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Fighting American is a patriotic comic book character created in 1954 by writer Joe Simon and artist Jack Kirby, published by Cretswood Publication / Prize Comics and, against normal industry practices of the time, creator-owned. It was later published by Harvey Comics, with Marvel Comics in 1989 publishing a hardcover collection of all his stories.The original Fighting American has been called "the Doctor Strangelove of comic books". It began as a serious attempt at a "Commie-smasher" comic, but after disappointing initial sales, Simon and Kirby turned the magazine into a pastiche, deliberately overdoing Fighting American's attitudes; despite this change, the title was cancelled after seven issues