Showing posts with label World Around Us. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Around Us. 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 RetroBlogsHero 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" RetroBlogAtomicKommie 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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by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers and others
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by Robert Kanigher, Joe Kubert and others
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Thursday, June 6, 2019

D-Day 75th Anniversary "Part 6: Beachhead"

...one thing about this serial, unlike many other tellings of this tale, is the "warts and all" accuracy that doesn't "sugar-coat" the story!
Rendered by George Evans, with assists by other "Fleagle Gang" artists on various panels, this never-reprinted backup from Gilberton's World Around Us #32 (1961) has nothing to do with the book's lead features about "For Gold & Glory", the Spanish conquest of Central America and Mexico!
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019

D-Day 75th Anniversary "Part 4: Night Drop"

...while I'm less than impressed with the rather elementary scripting, I'm really digging the meticulously-detailed George Evans artwork!
Though Gilberton's World Around Us #30 (1961) was subtitled "Undersea Adventures", this chapter of the D-Day serial obviously had nothing to do with the issue's theme!
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

D-Day 75th Anniversary "Part 2: Target Normandy"

...though I'm not enthralled with the unknown writer's simplistic style, it does get the point across!
Rendered by George Evans, though Marie Severin redrew several of the faces to make them look more "on model" to the real-life people shown, this never-reprinted backup from Gilberton's World Around Us #28 (1960) has nothing to do with the book's lead features about "The Illustrated Story of Whaling"!
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Omaha Beach on D-Day
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

WORLD AROUND US "These Brave Fields"

Ten-HUT!
On the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettyburg, we present a never-reprinted feature from World Around Us #26 (1960), based on Battle of Gettysburg, an eyewitness account of the battle by Colonel Frank A. Haskell.
A few weeks after Gettysburg, Haskell wrote an account of what he had experienced at Gettysburg and sent it to his brother Harrison, who couldn't get even a local newspaper to publish the first-hand story!
Colonel Frank A Haskell
The tale would be published (postumously since Colonel Haskell was killed in 1864 at the Battle of Cold Harbor) in 1898 as Battle of Gettysburg. 
The book was hailed by noted Civil War authority Bruce Catton as "One of the genuine classics of Civil War literature."
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