Christmas Combat Comics G.I. JOE "Weepy's Christmas"

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Christmas is a helluva time to be fighting a war...

 ...as the ORIGINAL G.I. Joe and his buddies discover during the Korean War!

This never-reprinted story from Ziff-Davis' G.I Joe #10 (1952), illustrated by penciler Irv Novick and inker Frank Giacoia, was published long before Hasbro unleashed their 12" action figures upon the kids of America, the phrase "G.I. Joe" was slang for American soldiers.

It was popularized in 1945 by the release of the movie Story of G.I. Joe, starring Burgess Meredith as real-life war correspondent Ernie Pyle as he traveled with American troops during the invasions of Tunisia and Italy.

Ziff-Davis used the phrase as the title for a new war comic beginning in 1950.

Set in the (then) present-day Korean War, the series detailed the saga of Private Joe Burch, and the rest of his unit.

Running an impressive 55 issues, the series ended in 1957 with Joe Burch and his unit reassigned stateside to Camp Humbolt.

We'll be presenting the highlights of the original G.I. Joe's comics career next year.

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Halloween Horror AIR FIGHTERS COMICS "Meets Misery!" Conclusion

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When we last saw World War II's popular teen aviator hero...

...A shadowy figure calling himself "Misery" threatens to shoot down any British aircraft he encounters...and does so with frightening efficiency!
AirBoy responds to the challenge, but is knocked unconscious by Misery's otherworldly "Air Tomb" which zaps him with an electric charge...

Misery did, indeed, return...several times...in both AirBoy's Golden Age and Bronze Age adventures!
Note: the Bronze Age (1980s) series from Eclipse featured the son of the original AirBoy, but the original (Golden Age) versions of the Heap, Sky Wolf, and Valkyrie, with whom, like his father, he became...intimate!
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Halloween Horror AIR FIGHTERS COMICS "Meets Misery!" Part 1

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Aviators have been staples of heroic fiction for a century...

...and both pulps and comics had dozens of them!
This is a tale about one of the most popular ones (in both the 1940s and 1980s)!

To Be Concluded...
TOMORROW!
This never-reprinted story from Hillman's Air Fighters Comics V1N12 (1943) is the first appearance of Misery, one of teen aviator Airboy's ongoing supernatural foes (he had several)!

Apparently Airboy co-creators, writer Harry Stein and artist Fred Kida liked using mystic characters as a counterpoint to the science-based kid flyer!

Among the other foes (and friends) were Zzed, the Rat King, and The Heap!

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Halloween Horror VOODOO "Corpses of the Jury"

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For Halloween, we're combining fictional horror with the real-life horrors of concentration camps!

Warning: NSFW!

Memories of World War II and the Nuremberg Trials were still fresh in peoples' minds when this tale was published in 1953 in Ajax/Farrell's Voodoo #5.
There were stories aplenty of hidden Nazis being tracked down, but most involved them being tried and executed by Allied (American/British/French) law-enforcement, not spectral beings, and certainly not in so gruesome, yet poetic, fashion.
BTW, the identities of any of the Iger Studio creatives associated with this tale are, sadly, unknown!

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CoronaVirus Comics G I COMBAT "Commie Germ Warfare!"

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Though the title is similar to the previously-shown "Germ Warfare"...

...this tale from a different publisher is quite unlike the earlier one!

Illustrated by Charles Nicholas, this never-reprinted story from Quality's GI Combat #32 (1956) raises a couple of questions...

Why are Chinese troops wearing winter garb on a tropical island?

(Note: Quechoy Island is as fictional as Gotham City.)

Though both the Red Chinese and the Soviets supported and supplied North Korea, they usually did so independently of each other, so how likely would a joint operation (especially involving an illegal weapon of mass destruction) be?

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CoronaVirus Comics FROGMAN COMICS "Gulf Stream Riddle"

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Enemies of America love to use biological weapons...

...as this never-reprinted Cold War tale from Hillman's Frogman Comics #4 (1952) attests!

The enemy is never clearly-defined in this never-reprinted story from Hillman's Frogman Comics #4 (1952), written by Kim Aamodt and illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund.

Obviously not Asian (Chinese or North Korean), but not identified as Russkies, either.

And "Karslack" is just generic "foreign"!

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CoronaVirus Comics KENT BLAKE OF THE SECRET SERVICE "Unseen Death!"

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During the Korean War, some of our spies were re-assigned to combat units...

...where their specialized talents were often utilized to best effect!

Oddly, though Lee Tsui was obviously a carrier, Kent Blake was not affected, despite extremely...close...contact!

There were quite a few "germ warfare" stories involving North Koreans, far more than such tales about Germans or Japanese during World War II!

Since the NKs lacked the nuclear weapons the USSR and Red China possessed, writers utilized biological warfare as a hook for stories involving infiltrating Communist lines!

Penciled and inked by Tom Gill, this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Kent Blake of the Secret Service #8 (1952) shows a lot of storytelling influence from Harvey Kurtzman's then-current Frontline Combat and Two-Fisted Tales for EC Comics...

...especially on Page 2, which doesn't really need to be in this story...

BTW, the story's scripter is, sadly, unknown!

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and Other Stories by Harvey Kurtzman