Asians in Combat JOHN WAYNE ADVENTURE COMICS "Bridgehead"

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You know John Wayne did a Vietnam War movie (Green Berets)...

...but he never did a Korean War flick!

(Jet Pilot is a Cold War movie involving Russians.

No Koreans or scenes set in Korea.)

Comic books were a different matter...

Trivia: Besides not doing a Korean War movie, Wayne never did a film set in World War II Germany!
This never-reprinted tale is from Toby's John Wayne Adventures #15 (1952), penciled by Mel Keefer.(The other credits are unknown)
You'll note that Wayne is referred to as "John Wayne", not "John Wayne as Sgt Stryker" or some other character he played in movies or a totally-new character!
One of the conceits of this 31-issue series, John Wayne Adventure Comics, was that Wayne was always himself in the stories, no matter where or when they were set!
Stories ran the gamut from Wayne in the French Foreign Legion to putting out oil-rig fires to big-game hunting in Africa to tracking spies in Hong Kong, with at least one Western-themed story every issue.
Oddly enough, though there are numerous comic adaptations of Wayne's Western movies, and even a comic based on The Conqueror (where he portrayed Genghis Khan), there are no comic adapting any of his war movies!
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American Sniper and "Sniper G.I. Style"

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There's been some controversy about the movie American Sniper...

Especially in regards to filmmaker Michael Moore's comments...

Lots of talk about snipers this weekend (the holiday weekend of a great man [Martin Luther King, Jr], killed by a sniper), so I thought I'd weigh in with what I was raised to believe about snipers,"

My dad was in the First Marine Division in the South Pacific in World War II.

His brother, my uncle, Lawrence Moore, was an Army paratrooper and was killed by a Japanese sniper 70 years ago next month.

He explained that his views were passed down to him by his father.

My dad always said, 'Snipers are cowards.
They don't believe in a fair fight.
Like someone coming up from behind you and coldcocking you.
Just isn't right.
It's cowardly to shoot a person in the back'.
Only a coward will shoot someone who can't shoot back. I don't think most Americans think of snipers as heroes...

Here's a never-reprinted feature from Aviation Press' Contact Comics #7 (1945) with a World War II perspective on both American and enemy snipers...

Note: the portrayal of Japanese soliders may be NSFW.

So, Americans always had a love/hate relationship with the concept of snipers.

When the enemy does it, it's bad.

But, when we do it, it's good.

In Moore's case, a relative was killed by one, his father was understandably bitter about the circumstances, and his dad's bitterness colored Moore's opinion of the subject matter of the movie.

Doesn't make Moore any less patriotic than the next guy.

Personally, I'm more offended by the movie's portrayal of all Arabs on an even more racist level than the Japanese and Germans in this 1940s piece.

At least we had the excuse we were less sophisticated as a society back then.
What's the excuse now?

Until next time...

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