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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To celebrate Memorial Day, here's a landmark military magazine...

...produced by the legendary Will Eisner and his studio to promote good maintenance of vehicles in an easy-to-read format including text articles with spot illustrations and even comic strips.

It quickly expanded its' coverage to include weapons, radios, and literally everything else military personnel utilized.

And, by the third issue, it began utilizing the military's single greatest weapon...women!

Eisner's studio handled the magazine until 1971, turning it over to Murphy Anderson's Visual Concepts studio, who passed it on to Joe Kubert in 2001.

Kubert's studio still produces the magazine, often utilizing students from his comic art school.

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