Under the Evergreen is...SUPER GREEN BERET!

Never failing to capitalize on a pop culture trend, '60s comics publishers, noticing the popularity of the hit single Ballad of the Green Berets (by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler & Robin Moore) quickly produced comics series featuring the elite Army unit.
Most were standard war comics, but one stood out from the rest for sheer weirdness...

What do you get when you combine...
1) Green Berets and the VietNam War
with...
2) Teenagers...
and
3) SuperHeroes?
Why,
SUPER GREEN BERET,
of course!

Green Beret Roger Wilson saves a Vietnamese monk from a wild boar, and in return the grateful priest attaches a pin to his beret which makes it glow.
Home on leave, Roger gives the glowing beret to his teenage nephew Tod Holton, who discovers that, when he puts it on his head and salutes, he's transformed into a super-powered adult dressed in a soldier's uniform!
(It's sorta like the Golden Age Captain Marvel, a teenager who said the magic word SHAZAM and was transformed into a super-powered adult, albeit with his teenage mind.)
Using his new-found powers of teleportation, telepathy, telekinesis, transmutation, time travel, invulnerability, and super-strength, Tod decides to fight Enemies of Our Country, mostly in present-day Asia, but also travels through time to the American Revolution and World War II, during his two-issue run!
Yes, it's as hokey as it sounds!

We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ felt that we couldn't let such an outrageous character and concept be forgotten, so, as part of our War: Past, Present, & Future™ line, we incorporated Super Green Beret as a light-hearted example of 1960s funkiness to contrast with the seriousness of our World War II and Korean Police Action material (plus we wanted an excuse to make some kool SGB collectibles for ourselves)!

So stick a Super Green Beret collectible under the tree or in a stocking for your loved one!
It's the next best thing to an original 11.5" GI Joe!
(And I should know, since I received one of the first Joes at Christmas, many years ago!)

BONUS: A FREE Christmas present for you: the never-reprinted premiere of Super Green Beret!
You gotta see it to believe it!
(And there'll be more to come next year!)

WARFRONT "Tomorrow's War"

Ten-hut!

In honor of Veteran's Day, we present an unusual tale...

...which was created and produced during the Korean War, but published several years later, resulting in an interesting re-write...

Though the enemy sub and crew are described as "Japanese" (thus placing the tale during World War II), all the ships and aircraft are Korean War-era technology.

America had no military jet aircraft (except a couple of experimental prototypes) until after WWII.

The "angled deck" aircraft carrier with the deck angled to the port side creating a second "runway" wasn't developed and built until after WWII.

Helicopters weren't used on American carriers until the beginning of the Korean War.

(The few helicopters that did see action in WWII were too big to be practical on a carrier)

The jet fighters are shown attacking an enemy rocket base...but Japan had no such bases!

(Korea did!)

So, why were the changes made?

We can only therorize that when the story finally appeared in Harvey's Warfront #34 (1958), the Comics Code Authority ordered changes probably due to the use of the racist term "gook" in the original script, although simply calling them "commies" or somesuch would've done the same thing and kept it in the Korean War timeframe.

The art's by Bob Powell and his studio, but the writer (and rewriter/editor) are unknown.

Until next time...

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WORLD WAR III "Commando in Mufti"

Ten-Hut!

Things are not as they seem in this tale...

...about a third World War that began in 1960!

(You remember when that happened, right?)

This never-reprinted (in color) story from Ace's World War III #2 (1953) was written by pulp and paperback writer Robert Turner and apparently inked by Jim Mooney, who might have penciled it, as well.

Until we meet again...

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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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"Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg"

Ten-HUT

It's the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg....

...so this week we're going to present two never-reprinted stories about the battle.

You'll note the ambivalence about which side was "in the right" in this tale from Hillman's AirBoy Comics V5N12 (1949).

Both the writer and artist are unknown.

Be back here on July 4th for another tale time-lost of Gettysburg.

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