TRUE COMICS "Battle of Waterloo"

Two hundred years ago, one of the greatest battles in history took place...

...as you'll see in this graphic retelling from Parents Magazine Press' True Comics #2 (1941)

Illustrated by Jim McArdle, this historically-accurate retelling conveys the less-than-glorious aspect of war, detailing some of the mistakes and problems of a large-scale battle.

BTW, here's a b/w litho of the art the two-page spread is based on...

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Wow...

WORLD WAR STORIES "Glory at Gallipoli: Endless Fight"

We Have Already Seen...

...Allied forces, spearheaded by ANZACs, landed at the tip of the Gallipoli peninsula to open the Dardanelles Straits for British and French warships.

However, the Turkish defenders stood fast against the invaders...

The story of Gallipoli was dramatized in the 1981 movie Gallipoli (with Mel Gibson) based on Ernest Raymond's novel "Tell England" which had been previously-filmed in 1931as Battle of Gallipoli. 

2012's Canakkale 1915, told the story from the Turkish point of view.

There have also been TV mini-series including 1985's ANZACs (starring Paul Hogan), and 1982's 1915, which featured the Gallipoli campaign as major plotlines, and the new mini-series Gallipoli, which just aired in Australia and New Zealand.

Dell Comics launched this series around the 50th Anniversary of the Great War in 1964, probably hoping to cover the major events of the entire conflict, but the series ended after only three issues.
Their primary military artist, Sam Glanzman illustrated all the stories in the first issue and most of the remaining issues,with Frank Springer filling in when Glanzman was unavailable.
The writers for all three issues are unknown.

Bookmark this blog since we'll soon be re-presenting the final issue of this HTF World War Stories series as well as other WWI tales from other books.