I've always been puzzled by how the Boy Commandos remained popular in their own title long after the war. They started as a sort of junior-Blackhawks, orphans from different European nations who had no family to claim them. Talk about kid sidekicks, these boys were trained as commandos and sent on missions into occupied territory. After the war, they stayed under Rip Carter's guardianship as a sort of crime-fighting team who seemed to be famous (people recognized them). Then Jan went back to Holland, Alfie and Andre followed in turn and were replaced by Tex and Percy. So the former international team was made up of all Americans. The whole point of the strip had been diluted and forgotten, it must have been going on momentum.