Showing posts with label EC Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EC Comics. Show all posts

Saturday, June 6, 2026

Celebrate D-Day...by Reading Comics/Graphic Novels About It!

TEN-HUT!!!
It's the anniversary of D-Day, when the Allies, led by America, invaded Fortress Europa...
...and we at War: Past Present and Future , along with our fellow RetroBlogs, Hero Histories and Atomic Kommie Comics, have presented numerous graphic tales of that epic day, beginning with Marvel's Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos hitting the beach on D-Day!
Yes, it was reprinted in a Marvel Masterworks over a decade ago, but those are extremely-expensive and didn't sell very well, so most of you have never seen this tale from over a half century ago!
It was really crowded at Normandy on June 6th, 1944 since Blackhawk and his team were also there, so it's only fair we present their never-reprinted D-Day adventure...which also doubles as their previously-unrevealed origin...at Hero Histories!
The EC Comics crew, best known for sci-fi and horror, also did a story about D-Day...by three ex-military personnel as seen HERE!
And one of their crew, who served in the Merchant Marine before becoming a paratrooper, did this tale  about our paratroopers on D-Day...
Our "parent" RetroBlog, AtomicKommie Comics, joined in with both a brief three-pager...
...and a multi-part retelling courtesy of Gilberton, the publisher behind Classics Illustrated and World Around Us!
Enjoy, and if you have a friend or family member who's a D-Day veteran, tell him "Thank You" for us!
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

TWO-FISTED TALES "Dien Bien Phu!"

Ten-Hut!
One of the most vicious battles in Vietnam's history...
...was fought before America even got there, as pointed out in the premiere segment of Ken Burns' The Vietnam War!
Writer John Putnam and illustrator John Severin crafted this story in EC's Two-Fisted Tales #40 (1954-55) less than six months after the battle occurred, based only on information provided by French and other European news services.
America would start sending advisers to train South Vietnamese soldiers in mid-1956, slowly escalating our participation until we were fully-involved by 1964.
A somewhat more accurate (but far less exciting) version can be found HERE!
Until Next Time!
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Monday, June 6, 2011

D-Day Special: TWO-FISTED TALES "D-Day"

For our D-Day memorial special, we present one of the coolest war comics tales ever!
"Why?" you may ask...
Read for yourself, then come back afterwards...

To answer the question "Why is this one of the koolest war comics tales ever?"
1) The troops don't fire a single shot. (Rocket-propelled grapnels don't count.)
2) It shows that, no matter how the higher-ups screw up, the American fighting man was (and still is) the finest soldier in history.
From Two-Fisted Tales #27 (1952) Story by Harvey Kurtzman. Art by John Severin. Lettering by Ben Oda. Color by Marie Severin.
Notes: Kurtzman, Severin, and Oda all served in the Army during World War II. Oda was a paratrooper.