Ten-hut!
It's Memorial Day, 2013...
...and, with our humble thanks to those who serve, a tale about the first (and hopefully, only) Korean War, published at it's height in 1953!
The emphasis is on the enemy being Communists, not Asians, as was done (sometimes to extremes) in World War II comics.
(That's
not to say racial insults or ethnic stereotypes weren't occasionally
used,but they weren't on the level of the extreme caricatures of
cartoonish slant-eyed and buck-toothed Japanese from the previous war.)
Plus,
most of the writers and artists were vets from the European and Asian
theatres of war, with first-hand experience of the horrors of war less
than a decade earlier.
In the case of this story, artist Don Heck had been too young to enlist (or be drafted) during WWII, but odds are the unknown writer was a vet.
Until next time...
Dis-missed!
