Fighting American: Rules of the Game

After the events of Awesome Entertainment’s first mini-series, John Flagg, the civilian identity of Fighting American, retired to his farm in Kansas. It is there that his cyborg partner, S.P.I.C.E., (Super Prototype Intelligent Cyborg Entity) comes to persuade him to return to the life to which he had been pledged. Flagg assures her that there is nothing that could make him put the costume back on. Eight pages later, after the bomb drops, (literally), he rethinks his position.

Rob Liefeld’s end run around Marvel’s lawsuit prompted by Agent America resurrected this Captain America parody created by Simon and Kirby. Though Fighting American was originally intended as satire in the 1950s, the modern day version is in its own way just as implausible.

— George Haberberger

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Nov 1997

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W: Jeph Loeb · A: Ed McGuinness

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Fighting American standing on Cover A by Rob Liefeld

Nov 1997

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SPICE pointing gun on Cover B by Rob Liefeld

Nov 1997

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Fighting American vs. SPICE cover A with white background

Jan 1998

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W: Jeph Loeb, Elliot S! Maggin, Dan Fraga · A: Ed McGuinness, Dan Fraga

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