#11 January 2003
Cover
Contents
Fighting Yank 1
Fighting Yank 2
Fighting Yank 3
Fighting Yank 4
Letters/Cover Gallery
Back Cover
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   -All scans by Bill Nolan and used in Pure Excitement Comics CD-ROM #2: The Fighting Yank vol.1.
Hello and welcome to the eleventh fighting issue of Spotlight Comics!!! Here you'll get a "5th week" dose of Golden Age goodness! This month the spotlight is on Fighting Yank with 4 complete stories originally presented by Bill Nolan on his 2nd CD-ROM! Bill has given me permission to use these stories in my books, and I will try to make all available again as quick as possible! Enjoy!
Cover by: Steve Rogers
Fighting Yank
Fighting Yank "The Blitz Nightmare"
    -Story taken from Fighting Yank #5
Nedor Publishing Co. September 1943
     -Writer- Unknown
     -Penciler- Binder Shop(?)
     -Inker- Binder Shop(?)
    -A.K.A.- Bruce Carter III
    -Known Powers- Strength, invulnerability
    -Other information- The Fighting Yank possessed a special cloak which once belonged to his Colonial ancestor, Bruce Carter I whom we saw in All-Golden #2. The cloak gave him superhuman strength and invulnerability. Whenever things would get down for Bruce, the spirit of his ancestor would always appear to pull him out of danger's way.  
    Bruce's identity was known only to his fiancee, Joan Farwell, who accompanied him in most of his adventures.
    -Known Appearances- America's Best Comics 9, 11, 13-25; Fighting Yank 1-29; Startling Comics 10-49
"The Invisible Enemy"
    -Story taken from America's Best Comics #15
Nedor Publishing Co. October 1945
     -Writer- Unknown
     -Penciler- Ken Battefield (Layouts)
     -Inker- Unknown (Finishes)
Fighting Yank
Fighting Yank "The Flaming Snow"
    -Story taken from Startling Comics #39
Better Publications Inc. May 1946
     -Writer- Unknown
     -Penciler- Ken Battefield
     -Inker- Al Camerata(?)
"Taxi Terror"
    -Story taken from Fighting Yank #27
Visual Editions Inc. January 1949
     -Writer- Unknown
     -Art- Jerry Robinson and Mort Meskin
Fighting Yank
Spotlight Comics  #11. Published by Golden Years Publications, January 2003. All original material presented here and site design is property of The Golden Years and is not to be represented without permission from the site owner. All represented material, comics, covers, etc. is believed to be in the public domain and reprinted for historical purposes. If you wish you may use stories on your own site as long as you give me or the original scanner credit. I would appreciate it however if you would let me know before representing a story. Biographical information pulled from The Grand Comics Database, AC's Golden Age Hero and Heroine Directory, Pure Excitement Comics, and Jess Nevins' Golden Age Hero Directory.