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Post by brutalis on Oct 27, 2017 7:57:02 GMT -5
Love Love Love me some War That Time Forgot. Dinosaurs and war: two great tastes that taste great together. You can't go wrong with the insanity of war and tossing in your bucket of plastic dinosaurs for your little green men to struggle with.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 28, 2017 14:29:18 GMT -5
I put aside "The War that Time Forgot" for a while to get back to Sgt. Fury. I was going to start in on Sgt. Fury #41 to #50, but I decided to read one of the annuals first. So I skipped ahead to 1968 to read Sgt. Fury Annual #4, with the story of what the Howlers did during The battle of the Bulge. Really nice art by Dick Ayers and John Severin! Severin was one of the first artists that I could identify immediately because I read Cracked magazine and old MAD reprints (I had several of those MAD paperbacks, like Son of MAD) for a year or so before I started reading super-hero comics. The framing sequence is Christmas 1967, and the Howlers are having a holiday reunion at Dum Dum's house. His wife is never shown on-panel, but she gets quite a few off-panel word balloons where she's bossing everybody around, even Colonel Fury! Everybody is there - Dino, Reb, Pinky, Gabe, Eric Koenig, etc. - and Izzy has brought his wife and children. The kids ( aged about 4 to 8, I'm guessing) want Uncle Nick to tell them a story, so he tells them about Christmas 1944 when they were deep in the snowy Ardennes, being massacred by German troops. And that's almost literal. The Howlers are among about a hundred U.S. troops captured by the Nazis, and the Nazis let loose with machine guns, mowing down dozens of troops. When the dust has cleared and the Nazis has moved on. All the Howlers (and only the Howlers) are mostly unharmed because they all dropped to the ground and played possum. Like many of the incidents in this comic (like where US troops ask the Howlers questions about American culture to make sure they aren't Germans in disguise), this massacre (sans the Howlers) is based on a real massacre during the Battle of the Bulge. Anger over the massacre gives the US troops extra motivation to show the Nazis who's the boss and stop the offensive. Sgt. Fury Annual #4 is a lot of fun, though it's easy to make fun of in a good-natured way. All the Howler clichés are there. Reb talks about poker and ponies, Pinky uses his umbrella in a physics-defying way, Gabe uses his trumpet to disable a Nazi soldier by hurting his ears with a high note and so on. But you can't beat the great art, the action sequences and the rather heart-warming framing sequences with Fury telling a bunch of Jewish kids about what their daddy was doing Christmas 1944.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 28, 2017 15:21:29 GMT -5
I put aside "The War that Time Forgot" for a while to get back to Sgt. Fury. I was going to start in on Sgt. Fury #41 to #50, but I decided to read one of the annuals first. So I skipped ahead to 1968 to read Sgt. Fury Annual #4, with the story of what the Howlers did during The battle of the Bulge. Really nice art by Dick Ayers and John Severin! Severin was one of the first artists that I could identify immediately because I read Cracked magazine and old MAD reprints (I had several of those MAD paperbacks, like Son of MAD) for a year or so before I started reading super-hero comics. The framing sequence is Christmas 1967, and the Howlers are having a holiday reunion at Dum Dum's house. His wife is never shown on-panel, but she gets quite a few off-panel word balloons where she's bossing everybody around, even Colonel Fury! Everybody is there - Dino, Reb, Pinky, Gabe, Eric Koenig, etc. - and Izzy has brought his wife and children. The kids ( aged about 4 to 8, I'm guessing) want Uncle Nick to tell them a story, so he tells them about Christmas 1944 when they were deep in the snowy Ardennes, being massacred by German troops. And that's almost literal. The Howlers are among about a hundred U.S. troops captured by the Nazis, and the Nazis let loose with machine guns, mowing down dozens of troops. When the dust has cleared and the Nazis has moved on. All the Howlers (and only the Howlers) are mostly unharmed because they all dropped to the ground and played possum. Like many of the incidents in this comic (like where US troops ask the Howlers questions about American culture to make sure they aren't Germans in disguise), this massacre (sans the Howlers) is based on a real massacre during the Battle of the Bulge. Anger over the massacre gives the US troops extra motivation to show the Nazis who's the boss and stop the offensive. Sgt. Fury Annual #4 is a lot of fun, though it's easy to make fun of in a good-natured way. All the Howler clichés are there. Reb talks about poker and ponies, Pinky uses his umbrella in a physics-defying way, Gabe uses his trumpet to disable a Nazi soldier by hurting his ears with a high note and so on. But you can't beat the great art, the action sequences and the rather heart-warming framing sequences with Fury telling a bunch of Jewish kids about what their daddy was doing Christmas 1944. Nice work, Hoosier. I'm tagging the much missed DanBintheUnderworld bcause this is his favorite all-time comic. He'll enjoy seeing it written about.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 28, 2017 16:46:56 GMT -5
Yeah, they are using the Malmedy Massacre, where US soldiers were shot by the SS. There were some reprisals and once the Germans were defeated and some of the SS rounded up, they were put on trial for their actions and the actions of their men. Joachim Peiper stood trial for the massacre, and several other crimes. Most of the evidence was based on sworn statements, and witnesses were not available for cross-examination. Peiper's lawyer did produce Lt. Col. Hal McCown, whose men had been captured by Peiper's troops, yet had been given humane treatment and he testified he saw similar treatment of prisoners under Peiper. There were conflicting reports of massacres of Belgian civilians and Peiper's men had been responsible for civilian massacres in Russia. He was convicted and sentenced to death; but, it was commuted to life in prison. he was released in 1956; but, was killed in 1976, on Bastille Day, after receiving threats. Severin added a ton of realism to the Sgt Fury tales, both in the look of the characters and his experiences in te war (he served in the Pacific). By this point, the series was toned down a bit, from the wilder antics of the Stan Lee stories. When you read the entire run, though, Fury and the Howlers got around a hell of a lot more than just about any unit in the ETO. The annuals were always good fun, as they mixed reprints of older stories with tales of the Howlers in Korea and Vietnam, as well as their actions on D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 4, 2017 14:35:07 GMT -5
I'm up to Sgt. Fury #44. John Severin's first issue! And on a break during a training exercise, Reb takes a break from talking constantly about poker and card games to tell Eric and Pinky about the Howlers' first mission and how they got to be called commandos. (Because commandos are British. The American equivalents are Rangers.) The Howlers have been training for six weeks and don't really know each other that well when they get picked for a mission to rescue a British scientist being held in Norway. And guess what? There's a couple of scenes where Reb makes some inappropriate comments about having to work so closely with Gabe! Apparently they eventually made up and Reb became less of an obvious bigot, but an editorial note says that's a story for another time. I think I spotted a bit of an anachromism. The story takes place in 1942 and at one point as they're attacking the Nazis, somebody says "Just like John Wayne." But by the end of 1942, Wayne had just started making war movies. "Flying Tigers" came out in October, so it's not a completely impossible statement, but to be a little more accurate, Wayne doesn't establish himself as an invulnerable war hero charging into battle for some years yet. Pretty good issue overall! Every panel is a joy to look at with the Howlers having it out with the Nazis as the snow falls around them.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 4, 2017 18:53:32 GMT -5
I'm up to Sgt. Fury #44. John Severin's first issue! And on a break during a training exercise, Reb takes a break from talking constantly about poker and card games to tell Eric and Pinky about the Howlers' first mission and how they got to be called commandos. (Because commandos are British. The American equivalents are Rangers.) The Howlers have been training for six weeks and don't really know each other that well when they get picked for a mission to rescue a British scientist being held in Norway. And guess what? There's a couple of scenes where Reb makes some inappropriate comments about having to work so closely with Gabe! Apparently they eventually made up and Reb became less of an obvious bigot, but an editorial note says that's a story for another time. I think I spotted a bit of an anachromism. The story takes place in 1942 and at one point as they're attacking the Nazis, somebody says "Just like John Wayne." But by the end of 1942, Wayne had just started making war movies. "Flying Tigers" came out in October, so it's not a completely impossible statement, but to be a little more accurate, Wayne doesn't establish himself as an invulnerable war hero charging into battle for some years yet. Pretty good issue overall! Every panel is a joy to look at with the Howlers having it out with the Nazis as the snow falls around them. Yeah, that is early for Wayne. he was a popular Western actor by that point; but, Flying Tigers is where he turned into the ultimate GI. It's interesting that Severin and Ayers choose an MP-34 submachine gun (soldier on the left, with the magazine sticking out the left side). You didn't see stuff like that very often in war comics. Most artists would stick to the iconic stuff and use them repeatedly, even when they are wrong. Everyone drew the Germans with the MP-40 submachine gun and the K98 Mauser rifle. Some, like Kirby, would draw the MG-44 machine gun, especially for heroic panels of GIs charging machine gun nests. You rarely see stuff like the MP-34 or the STG-44 assault rifle, introduced later in the war, and used extensively on the Russian front. You might see that stuff in the little information pages that were included, to fill out the book. It's kind of like in the 80s, when the Uzi submachine gun was featured all over tv and movies and started showing up quite often in comics..
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 8, 2017 20:36:27 GMT -5
Blazing Combat #2 Blazing Combat was Warren's entry into the world of war comics, though they had an advantage: since they were distributed with adult magazines and weren't subject to the Comics Code Authority, they could be far grittier and more realistic. The book was Archie Goodwin's baby and he wrote all but one story in the 4 issues that warren published. Archie set out to emulate Harvey Kurtzman's EC war comics: Frontline Combat and Two-Fisted Tales, which were noted for their authenticity and anti-war sentiment. Archie did the same, bringing along artistic talent to match, including EC veterans John Severin, George Evans, Joe Orlando and Al Williamson, as well as Gene Colan, Angelo Torres, Al McWilliams, Reed Crandall and Alex Toth. The covers were from Frank Frazetta and Frazetta immediately shows this isn't a code comic by illustrating a GI shoving a bayonet through a German soldier, while a fellow GI lies dead in the foreground. it's a gruesome cover that would never have made the cover of Our Army at War or Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos. The first story features art from Joe Orlando. It centers around an old man who tends his rice paddy. The National Liberation front, aka The Viet Cong, have come to liberate his village, but the old man seems unimpressed. he thinks the Japanese, the French, and the Americans have all been there before to "free" the village. The VC execute the village leaders and the man continues tending his paddy. His son joins the NLF (VC), to do something to help Vietnam, while the man wonders why growing rice isn't helping Vietnam. He sees his table is sparse, as the NLF have collected the "donations" to feed their soldiers, leaving little for the village. The ARVN and American advisors come along and drive out the guerillas, killing the old man's son, in the process. he continues to tend his field. The NLF take back the village and his wife is caught in the crossfire, and he tends his field. Finally, the Americans and ARVN return via helicopter, landing near his paddy, to drive out the NLF. it is the last straw, as the man seeks to protect his field, all he has left. he is killed by a stray bullet and the liberating forces burn the field to the ground with flamethrowers, seeking to root out the NLF. They depart, leaving the old man's "coolie hat" floating in the water of the paddy. The story features the innocent victims of the war, those caught in the middle, who just want to get on with life, in peace. The liberators take a piece of his family and land each time, until they have destroyed everything. There are no grand heroics, only destruction. Politics have little meaning, when all you have is taken away. Next is "Saratoga," with art by Reed Crandall. It's 1777 and the British have moved south, from Canada, moving threw New York. gen Gates is there to meet him, but he has been hesitant and his men are waiting. Finally, Gates moves out his troops; but, instead of attacking the British, they take up defensive positions. Their lines are soon bombarded by British cannon, and still, Gates does not send an attack. It falls to a young major-general to rally the men and spur them into the attack. His horse is hit as he leads the charge and it goes down, falling on its rider's leg. the men get him to safety and rally around the only man who knows what he is doing. His actions lead to the eventual victory, with the surrender of Gen Burgoyne and his entire army (also thanks to a mini-naval action, which was also the work of this young general). We learn at the end (if you aren't a student of history) that this American hero is Benedict Arnold. The failure to recognize Arnold and his constant devaluation in favor of more politically connected, yet incompetent leaders would ultimately lead to Arnold offering his services to the British. "Mig Alley" features Al McWilliams on art, in a tale of Pappy, a veteran of 93 combat missions over Korea. he and his wingman take out some MIGs and then head for home, knwoing that they are likely to encounter more Migs along the Chongchon River. Pappy seems unconcerned and they battle the MIGs and pappy takes a hit, causing a fire. he is trying to head for home but is forced to head to the coast and ditch in the Yellow Sea. he is picked up by Air/Sea Rescue, but seems different. On the next mission, he disengages early, saying the other flight of F-86s can handle it and they need their fuel reserves for the Chongchon. However, when the bandits come, he doesn't react well.. They fight them off and head for home; but, Pappy doesn't notice a landing gear malfunction and crashes upon landing, ending his stream of luck. Joe Orlando is back for "Face to face." The story is set during the Spanish-American War and a young trooper named Halpern is wounded, while his comrades fight up a hil. He rises up and continues fighting, earning respect from his superiors. he is sent to deliver a message and encounters his first Spaniard, face to face. His rifle is knocked away and it comes down to brutal hand-to-hand combat, with Halpern finishing off his enemy with a rock. he makes it back but has been changed by meeting the enemy up close. Al Williamson and Al Torres handle art on Kasserine Pass, a tale of the German counter-offensive in the North African campaign, as inexperienced American troops are mauled by Rommel's forces. This was the first real bloodying of American troops in the European Theater and it would serve as a lesson. Archie makes the mistake of having the story center around a Sherman tank, which was brand new and just being introduced to the line and most of the tanks at Kasserine were older, less well armored models. We see the tank grew get destroyed, while believing that Rommel was all but finished. They soon learn the German mastery of the counter-attack and it would take Patton and Montgomery, as well as more advanced weapons, to finallt drive Rommel out of Africa. "Lone Hawk" features Alex Toth, and the tale of Lt. William Bishop, a Canadian pilot who racked up 72 kills in WW1. Throughout the tale, we see Bishop's fellow pilots go down, while he survives. However, most of his victories went unwitnessed, leading to later claims that they were inflated. Regardless, he became a major morale boost, as he survived continued combat. Toth is in his element, with beautiful aerial scenes and stark combat. Goodwin's script emphasize that the only difference between Bishop and his fellow aaces was that he survived to the end, on the bloodiest battleground. John Severin handles the last tale, "Holding Action." A group of replacements arrive on the front line, including a scared young GI, Stewart. The Chinese have been making thrusting raids to grab territory before the cease-fire. The men are ordered to hold the line. Stewart is scared and the attack comes. he starts to run but his sergeant grabs him and forces him to keep shooting, killing attacking Chinese soldiers. severin depicts his expression, as he goes from tears of fear to fierce determination. In the next attack he keeps firing after the enemy is dead and retreating. He has been changed. Peace finally comes, but Stewart tries to target medics tagging the dead. Hs sergeant stops him. The order him to load into a truck, but he yells he can't give up his position. Finally, he is hauled away by medics, as he goes into complete breakdown, another casualty of the inhumanity of war. All of these stories show the horrors of war and how history records the glory, but rarely the truth, such as benedict Arnold being the hero of the Battle of Saratoga, a victory which led to France and Spain lending material support to the Colonials, greatly strengthening the cause. His failure at politics would turn him into the most infamous American traitor, instead of one of the greatest heroes of the Revolution. Lanscape shows us the innocents who just want to live their lives and don't care about the politics of war. Holding Action and Face to Face show us the human price of killing the enemy. All of this is decidedly anti-war, in 1965, while America was stepping up its commitment in Vietnam. This would lead to political problems for Warren, who found their distributors wouldn't sell the comics and Blazing Combat was banned from Army PXs, a major market for Warren (and war comics, in general). The end result was a short, but glorious 4 issue run, which many feel was the greatest war comics series of all time. It is a testament to the towering writing skills of Archie Goodwin, matched with some of the finest realistic artists of the industry.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 11, 2017 17:53:30 GMT -5
I'm up to Sgt. Fury #46.
As much as I love these old Sgt. Fury comics, there's a few elements that you can expect in every story that get kind of annoying when you read them issue by issue every two or three days.
Like whenever you see a panel of German soldiers, there's ALWAYS one guy with a word balloon that's going on and on about how the German army will ultimately defeat the verdammt commandos because of Aryan superiority.
And I highly doubt that every third German soldier made it a point to lecture his fellow rank-and-file soldiers about white supremacy between volleys.
It would be like a story in Frontline Combat about the Battle of Antietam where every panel of the Confederate Army has one guy talking about how great slavery is and how it's awesome to be dying in droves to protect the property of the slave-owning class of the South. (And now I want to see that story: What if the Howling Commandos had been set during the American Civil War? Reb could still be in the squad because he was from Kentucky.)
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 11, 2017 18:34:24 GMT -5
Star-Spangled War Stories #151 The Unknown Soldier technically debuts in Our Army at War #168, in a Sgt Rock story, about a mysterious GI who saves Rock and the men of Easy Company, on several occasions, only to disappear afterward, unseen by everyone but Rock. That story had little in common with the later Unknown Soldier stories, other than taking its cue from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The idea is revived, but given a makeover, as we meet the new and long-lasting Unknown Soldier. We are first introduced to the Soldier from America's past, as we see a soldier lead the way in the Revolution, on both sides of the Civil War, in the Spanish-American War and WW1. We are brought up to pearl harbor and the Japanese advance through Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines. We then move to a farm somewhere in Virginia, as a shadowy figure receives a message from the Army. We see our first mistake as the story is firmly set in 1942, yet the Pentagon was not completed until 1943; yet, the orders are said to come from the newly built Pentagon. Our figure dons a disguise, as he applies make-up and facial hair to his hidden face, emerging as "Captain Shales," a B-25 bomber pilot. He is briefed at the Pentagon (still unfinished, in reality), then flies an unmarked P-38 Lightning to the West Coast, to the USS Hornet. Despite the fact that the plane was not equipped for carrier landings, he lands on the carrier and is taken to a briefing (no questions asked). There, he learns that the B-25 Mitchell bombers onboard will launch and carrier out raids on Japan, then fly to China to land or ditch. It is the famous Doolittle Raid. The planes launch and carry out bombing attacks on Tokyo and Kobe and then "Shales" pilots his plane to a bumpy crash landing in China. They are soon met by Japanese troops, who they hold at bay. "Shales" sets fire to the plane, covering their escape to the surrounding brush with the oily smoke. They later encounter Chinese guerillas who don't believe they are Americans (despite the VG, aka the Fling Tigers, already serving there). A rather large individual challenges "Shales" to a fight to the death and "Shales", despite being out-sized, is able to clamp a head-scissors on the guerilla and take him down with a sort of reverse hurricanrana (a pro wrestling head-scissors take-over, where one wrestler leaps up, scissors his legs around his opponents head and neck and then flips backward, forcing his opponent over in a somersault throw). Kubert's version sees Shales scissor from the back of the neck and fall backwards, locking his arms around his opponents shins, forcing him to fall forward, while choking him with his legs. Shales lets the man live and earns the respect of the guerillas. Later, the raiders are celebrated in Chunking, seat of Chang Kai-Shek's exiled government, but Shales is missing. We later see him back in the US, standing before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Joe Kubert has some fine imagery in this issue, which launches the definitive version of the Unknown Soldier. We never see his true face, but the tone is set and the gimmick of his masks and disguises. At first, we are led to think the Soldier is immortal, serving in past wars. A later thought balloon reveals that those soldiers were his ancestors. We see that this soldier was the best at everything, hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship, tactics, even flying; but, he is wounded and his face scarred and would only be seen swathed in bandages, although early future stories do show his scarred face. The comic is filled with historical mistakes, starting with the Pentagon. The children of the 60s might not have known this; but, it is a glaring error. Next, we have the Doolittle Raid, yet no one questions this new pilot. In reality, Doolittle and his men trained for a long time, before the raid, to learn if launching from a carrier was even feasible, given the size of the bomber and the length of the carrier launch deck. The planes had to be at maximum revs to take-off and still dipped dangerously low to the water, before climbing to altitude. The planes were unable to land on the carrier and were actually loaded onboard via crane, at NAS Alameda, in California, before the Hornet set sail. The carrier and escorts were 650 NM from Japan when they were spotted by a picket boat, the Nitto Maru. The ship sent a radio warning and was sunk by the USS Nashville. The B-25s were soon launched and the raid commenced. 15 of the 16 aircraft made it to China, while one landed in the Soviet Union and the crew was interned, as the USSR was not at war with Japan. Diplomatic efforts failed to win their release, though the crew was eventually smuggled to the British consulate in Iran, after the crew had been moved to Ashkhabad, 20 miles from the Iranian border. Later, it was uncovered that the smuggling was done by the NKVD (precursors to the KGB) as a way out of the legal quandary. The raid itself did little damage; but, was a major morale victory for the US, after so many defeats and the surrender of the Philippines. Franklin Roosevelt said the raid was launched "...from our base in Shangri-La...", referring to James Hilton's novel (a favorite of Roosevelt) Lost Horizon, and the hidden Tibetan city of Shangri-La. From then on, the Hornet was known as the Shangri-La. From the movie 30 Seconds Over Tokyo... Newsreel footage, after the carrier was revealed... The raid did cause the Japanese to pull back some forces for protection of the home islands and affected the planning of the attack on Midway Island, an attack that was uncovered by Naval Intelligence (thanks to breaking the Japanese naval codes) and was met by a task force of the USS Enterprise, Hornet and Yorktown. The Japanese were defeated, with all 4 of their carriers sunk, with the loss of the USS Yorktown, on the American side. The issue also features an Enemy Ace story, with more breathtaking Joe Kubert art, as Von Hammer sees pilots who break a superstition about having their picture taken before take-off, go down in combat. Eventually, after Allied planes attack and Von Hammer succeeds in defeating them, we see the photographer lying dead on the ground, a victim of the raid. Both the Unknown Soldeir and Enemy Ace would continue in Sta-Spangled War, until the Soldier was spun off into his own comic, with Gerry Talaoc handling the bulk of the artwork. Talaoc had a slightly cartoony style, which gave the Soldier's adventures a sort of horrific look.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 11, 2017 19:41:52 GMT -5
I've mentioned before that I alternate between ten issues of Sgt. Fury and then ten (or so) issues of a DC war comic. Both The Unknown Soldier and Enemy Ace were among the choices for my next foray into DC war comics, and I'm now thinking of reading Star Spangled War #151 to #160 and getting a taste of both.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2017 20:20:20 GMT -5
Enjoying these reviews ... Cody!
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 30, 2017 1:05:19 GMT -5
I read Sgt. Fury #50 last night. I've been alternating ten issues of Sgt. Fury with several issues of some DC war comic, so I'm ready to move on to Star-Spangled War Stories #151 to #160. I've been doing it this way because, as much as I love Sgt. Fury and Dum Dum and Dino and Izzy and so on, I feel ready for a break after I read ten issues of Sgt. Fury. These stories are very wordy and formulaic, so Pinky always has to use his brolly in a completely unbelievable way to take out a Nazi and Reb always has to mention that one of the Howlers owes him $12,000 in poker debts and Izzy always has to mention Ebbets Field. It probably wasn't as noticeable coming out monthly in the 1960s but you sure do notice when you're reading an issue every two or three days. But, man, that John Severin inking really makes a difference. Sometimes, it makes me want to laugh out loud because it makes me think of the old days, back before I was reading very many super-hero comics, when I was reading MAD reprints (those great paperbacks!) and also picking up CRACKED every month. And seeing so much John Severin art! I especially remember Melvin of the Apes and Robin Hood from the reprints. And Cracked was always full of Severin art. I think it's entirely possible that I knew John Severin's name before I knew who Stan Lee was. So some of those Sgt. Fury panels ... they're kind of funny. I keep expecting to see "Melvin is in trouble!" in the thought balloons. But I can get past that and really enjoy these stories a lot more. And I think the writing ... with stories like "The War Lover" and "The Medic" ... has changed and improved the formula a lot so that it doesn't seem like the same storyline every issue. Of course, you still have Gabe finding weird uses for his trumpet and Dum Dum complaining about his mother-in-law. Sheesh! It wouldn't be the Howlers without that crap!
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 1, 2017 18:31:44 GMT -5
I read Star Spangled War Stories #151 and #152 over the last few days. Both features - The Unknown Soldier and Enemy Ace - are pretty great! But mamoman! that Russ Heath art in the Enemy Ace story in #152 - he was such a great artist. I'm sure Dave Gibbons was honoring this style in the Black Freighter parts of Watchmen.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 12, 2017 18:04:09 GMT -5
The Enemy Ace story in this issue is one of the best comic-book World War I stories I've ever seen!
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 23, 2017 3:22:24 GMT -5
I'm up to Star Spangled War Stories #154. The Origin of the Unknown Soldier! I'm starting to think that Star Spangled War Stories was the best war comic EVER! Mlle. Marie for a while. Then The War that Time Forgot! And THEN, the Unknown Soldier and Enemy Ace AT THE SAME TIME! And Enemy Ace is very quickly becoming my favorite comic-book war series of them all.
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