Boy Commandos is a fictional organization from DC Comics first appearing in Detective Comics #64 by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. They are a combination of "kid gang" characters, an international cast of young boys fighting Nazis ā or in their own parlance, "the Ratzies".
Boy Commandos #1 (Sep/Oct 1973), art by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon.
Detective Comics #65 (July 1942), art by Jack Kirby, Jerry Robinson and Joe Simon.
Boy Commandos #1 (December 1942). Their first featured anthology series; penciled by Jack Kirby, inked by Joe Simon.
Joseph Henry Simon was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930sā1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.
Simon with a fan at the 2006 New York Comic Con
1974 Comic Art Convention program, reprinting Simon's original 1940 sketch of Captain America.