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Fifi
August 1945 - This comic features a heroic French Resistance fighter named "Fifi" ambushing German soldiers. "A group of gunners and partisans, under the command of Pierrot, decided to attach a German convoy," reads the first panel. "Fifi just blew up the bridge. The convoy is blocked." It was published only after the liberation of France in August of 1944. It adopted its name, Vaillant (Valiant), from the formerly popular Coeurs Vaillants and Ames Vaillantes, but did not assume the previous comic's Vichy sympathies or Catholic support. In fact, it endorsed communism.

Details from the release French World War II Comics
A library collection explores how comics where used for propaganda and entertainment in France during World War II.