Mlle. Marie was good; but had so much more potential if it hadn't been so constrained by the Code and DC's typical editorial restraint.  There were a lot of real world precedents for someone like Marie, in several of the occupied countries.  That's why it bugs me that DC hasn't cared about these characters, since the late 60s.  Garth Ennis made great use of Enemy Ace, in War in Heaven, where he flies for Germany, on the Eastern Front, in WW2 (I have problems with the set-up to get Von Hammer to fly for Nazi Germany; but, that is the only part of the story with which I have issue) and Bill Tucci did a really nice Sgt Rock.  I still want to write the grand DC war character maxi-series, covering the war from beginning to end, via these great characters, in interconnecting books.  However, DC would never publish it (unless Alan Moore agreed to do it and gave up all rights to Watchmen, and kissed all of their hinders, etc, etc....) and they certainly wouldn't market it.  I see it as the great British documentary series The World at War, with these characters as the POV.

You could also make a great movie out of Mlle. Marie, though Paul Verhoeven already trod in that territory, with Black Book (with Game of Thrones' Carice Van Houten).  She plays a Dutch Jewish woman, who falls in with the resistance and is tasked with getting close to a German officer, in charge of security units.  It also deals with the betrayals of many Dutch Jews, by someone inside the resistance.  Verhouven based it on several real people and events.

Oh Wow! The Brave and the Bold #52 is a lot of fun!
Mlle. Marie's series in Star Spangled War Stories only lasted eight issues before she was pushed by dinosaurs!

But that didn't stop her! After a short absence, she started making guest appearances in Our Army at War, All-American Men of War and other DC war mags. She appeared 13 times between the end of her own series in 1960 and Our Army at War #203 in 1969.

I must have looked at the index wrong because I thought she was in The Brave and the Bold #52 as her first appearance after her series ended, but the story mentioned that she met Sgt. Rock at some point, so I checked the Internet again and she was in issue of Our Army at War before this one. I'll have to read that tonight.

Then she didn't appear between 1970 and 1975, but she started appearing again in 1976 and was in a number of late-1970s adventures with Rock and the Unknown Soldier.

One slight disagreement, cody, about the Losers' longevity in their pre-Loser incarnations.

Gunner and Sarge held down the lead spot in Our Fighting Forces 45-94, after two straight appearances in All-American Men of War, from May 1959 through August 1965, a respectable run.

Johnny Cloud stuck around for five years or so, too. (All-American 82-117, essentially.)

It was Capt. Storm who didn't last too long: three years; just 18 issues.

Clearly, though, teaming them up was the ticket; they lasted nearly nine years as the Losers.

BTW, something surprising I discovered in looking through sales figures from the early 60s was that it was GI Combat with the Haunted Tank, and not Our Army at War with Sgt. Rock, that was the best-selling of DC's war comics year-in and year-out. 

See, I was because Rock always seemed to be promoted as the "Superman" of the war line. I liked the Haunted Tank, too, but always got the feeling that Rock was the ne plus ultra of the war characters.

Tootin' My Own Horn Dep't: In case you missed it, I wrote about the DC war character team-ups in another thread.

Offered for your perusal.  classiccomics.org/thread/3785/comic-lovers-memories?page=10

PS: Missed this issue when I was mentioning Mlle. Marie's team-ups. Edited that post to credit you, Hoosier! Thanks!

I hope to get back to doing some more reviews here, in a couple of weeks, once I get settled in my new place. I've been itching to look at some Unknown Soldier, EC war comics, and Blazing Combat. Oh, and Charley's War, from the UK.

There's some good stuff there.  It was a unique hook, with the scarred combat veteran, sent behind the lines on special missions, using an array of disguises.  Gerry Talaoc's art really sets the series apart, mixing that Phantom of the Opera look with realistic war stories.  It has a sense of tragedy around it, in the best dramatic terms.  I've never been fond of the updating of it (same with the Human Target; the classic works better).  There are some fantastic covers to the series, too, especially in the early 70s.