Halloween Horror HAUNT OF HORROR "Nightmare Patrol"

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 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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Summer Blogathon SGT FURY & HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS "Day of Thunder" Conclusion

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When Last We Left Sgt Fury and the Howlers...

...they had completed their mission to destroy the Luftwaffe base nearest Normandy and escaped the clutches of the Nazis.

Making their way to the coast, the Howlers find the invasion under way and join the assault in their own unique way...

(Yes, the cover art showing them wading ashore is inaccurate, but it's a great image, eh?)

Roy Thomas, Dick Ayers, and John Tartaglione know how to deliver a kool Silver Age classic, eh?

They would also show the Howlers at the Battle of the Bulge and other critical battles of WWII.

But where were Fury and the Howlers' DC counterparts, Sgt Rock and Easy Company, during D-Day?

If you want to know...

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Summer Blogathon SGT FURY & HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS "Day of Thunder" Part 2

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June 5, 1944: after managing to destroy the nearest Luftwaffe airfield to Normandy, Sgt Fury and the Howlers are captured...

D-Day is under way!

For the Nazi butt-kickin' finale...

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Summer Blogathon SGT FURY & HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS "Day of Thunder"

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Did you know Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos hit the beach on D-Day?

Well, here's the top-secret saga...

Looks bad for Fury and his Howlers, don't it?

How will they make it to D-Day if they die here and now?

Was Marvel's Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos Annual #2 (1966) was their final adventure?

For the top-secret answers to these and other questions...

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SGT FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS "Commission in Korea" Conclusion

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...the re-commissioned Howling Commandos under Colonel "Happy Sam" Sawyer, are sent into North Korea to blow up a secret air base!
With a slightly wounded "Happy Sam" stationed outside the base as backup, the Howlers attack in their own inimitable style...

Why all the set-up for Nick Fury?

He had recently-appeared in Fantastic Four as an eyepatch-wearing CIA colonel to help them stop the Hate Monger and reminisce with Reed Richards, whom he'd met during WWII when Reed was an OSS agent.

So we knew he had survived to the (then) present day.

But bigger plans were in store for Fury...

Nick had just replaced The Human Torch and The Thing as Dr Strange's co-feature in Strange Tales., making him the first comic character to have two simultaneous strips set in two different time periods!
(Howling Commandos in the 1940s, S.H.I.E.L.D. in the 1960s!)
Several of the Howlers joined Nick at S.H.I.E.L.D., including Dum-Dum, Gabe, and Eric Koenig, who had not yet appeared with the Howling Commandos in the 1940s storyline...which is why he isn't in this 1950s-era tale.
(That created a "Chekov/Khan Paradox".
In Star Trek II, the Wrath of Khan, Chekov is captured and recognized by Khan.
But Chekov didn't appear in the first-season episode, "Space Seed", since the Russian navigator wasn't created or cast...until the next season!
How did Khan recognize someone he never met?)
And we finally got to see the only exclusive Sgt Fury-themed Marvel merchandise of the 1960s...a Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos t-shirt (which, unlike most of the other Marvel shirts of the period, has never been reissued!)

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SGT FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS "Commission in Korea" Part 1

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In 1965, we learned Marvel's WWII combat heroes saw action in the Korean War!

This tale from Marvel's Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos Annual #1 (1965), gives the details...

We'll observe, Commie...TOMORROW!

In the 1960s, Marvel's Annuals were a mixed bag.

Unlike DC's 80-Page Giants which were all-reprint, Marvel's Annuals combined a new lead story with reprints and, sometimes, behind-the-scenes featurettes and pin-ups into a 72-page package (which reduced over several years down to 68 pages) for the same 25₵ price as the aforementioned Giants.

This Stan Lee-scripted, Dick Ayers-penciled, Frank Giacoia-inked tale ("Frankie Ray" was a pseudonym) covered a major, but untold, event in the group's history...their only battle during the Korean War!

And you'll discover why...tomorrow!

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