Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Love is a Battlefield! WARTIME ROMANCES "Road to Disgrace"

TEN-HUT!!!
Before 1973, serving in the military, whether voluntary or conscripted (the "draft")...
...used to be a part of almost every American man's life.
So, it seemed logical that there would be romance comics based around something that affected almost all young (18-25), eligible males, and the women who loved them!
The illustrator of this story from St John's WarTime Romances #4 (1952) is legendary good-girl artist Matt Baker, but the writer is unknown.
Until Next Time...
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Friday, December 1, 2023

Christmas Combat Comics NEW HEROIC COMICS "Korean Christmas!!"

Ten-Hut!
With a second Korean War potentially-ever more inevitable...
...this never-reprinted tale from Eastern's New Heroic Comics #82 (1953) seems as relevant as ever!
While this Jack Berrill-ilustrated piece is supposedly a "True Life Story", there's no mention of the battle at a record of the unit's actions!
This is not to diminish the 21st's heroic actions during the Korean War!
In fact, the 21st was the first American ground unit to see action during the conflict!
Until Next Time...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Halloween Horror HAUNT OF HORROR "Nightmare Patrol"

Ten-Hut!
 Here's a fascinating Vietnam War-set tale...
...created in 1974, just after American participation in the drawn-out conflict ended!
This never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Haunt of Horror V2N1 (1974) was part of a wave of horror tales prompted by the loosening up of the Comics Code to allow "traditional" monsters (who had been banned since the mid-1950s) back into comics!
DC was having some success with their new Weird War Tales book as well as the long-running Our Army at War/Sgt Rock and several others, but Marvel's war titles had been reduced to just Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos...and that had just gone reprint!
So a new war-oriented title was out of the question, and the story found a home in the premiere issue of the second version of Haunt of Horror (the first was a short-lived digest featuring novelettes and short stories).
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Sunday, October 1, 2023

Halloween Horror TERROR TALES "Jury of Skeletons"

TEN-HUT
Several years ago...

Now, here's a b/w remake from the 1970s (using the same script), since the original couldn't be reprinted in color comics due to the Comics Code!
Note: May be NSFW!
South American artist Enrique Cristobal illustrated this redo from Eerie Publications' Terror Tales #V6N1 (1974), 21 years after the never-reprinted original's publication.
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

SGT FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS "Viet Nam: the Valor and the Victory!" Conclusion

TEN-HUT!
We Have Already Seen...

...in 1967,  a team of middle-aged World War II veterans known to us as the "Howling Commandos" (along with a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent) managed to destroy an atom bomb in the hands of the North Vietnamese!
(Only in comic books or action movies would that last statement actually make sense!)
They are now en-route to their pick-up site...
Editor's Note: this brings us back to where the whole story started HERE!
There would be a couple more "present-day" reunions, a Christmastime one to re-tell their experiences at the Battle of the Bulge, and one involving an assassination attempt on (now-Congressman) "Reb" Ralston...
'Till next time...
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