Christmas Combat Comics G.I. JOE "Weepy's Christmas"

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Christmas is a helluva time to be fighting a war...

 ...as the ORIGINAL G.I. Joe and his buddies discover during the Korean War!

This never-reprinted story from Ziff-Davis' G.I Joe #10 (1952), illustrated by penciler Irv Novick and inker Frank Giacoia, was published long before Hasbro unleashed their 12" action figures upon the kids of America, the phrase "G.I. Joe" was slang for American soldiers.

It was popularized in 1945 by the release of the movie Story of G.I. Joe, starring Burgess Meredith as real-life war correspondent Ernie Pyle as he traveled with American troops during the invasions of Tunisia and Italy.

Ziff-Davis used the phrase as the title for a new war comic beginning in 1950.

Set in the (then) present-day Korean War, the series detailed the saga of Private Joe Burch, and the rest of his unit.

Running an impressive 55 issues, the series ended in 1957 with Joe Burch and his unit reassigned stateside to Camp Humbolt.

We'll be presenting the highlights of the original G.I. Joe's comics career next year.

Until next time...

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Halloween Horror AIR FIGHTERS COMICS "Meets Misery!" Conclusion

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When we last saw World War II's popular teen aviator hero...

...A shadowy figure calling himself "Misery" threatens to shoot down any British aircraft he encounters...and does so with frightening efficiency!
AirBoy responds to the challenge, but is knocked unconscious by Misery's otherworldly "Air Tomb" which zaps him with an electric charge...

Misery did, indeed, return...several times...in both AirBoy's Golden Age and Bronze Age adventures!
Note: the Bronze Age (1980s) series from Eclipse featured the son of the original AirBoy, but the original (Golden Age) versions of the Heap, Sky Wolf, and Valkyrie, with whom, like his father, he became...intimate!
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Halloween Horror AIR FIGHTERS COMICS "Meets Misery!" Part 1

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Aviators have been staples of heroic fiction for a century...

...and both pulps and comics had dozens of them!
This is a tale about one of the most popular ones (in both the 1940s and 1980s)!

To Be Concluded...
TOMORROW!
This never-reprinted story from Hillman's Air Fighters Comics V1N12 (1943) is the first appearance of Misery, one of teen aviator Airboy's ongoing supernatural foes (he had several)!

Apparently Airboy co-creators, writer Harry Stein and artist Fred Kida liked using mystic characters as a counterpoint to the science-based kid flyer!

Among the other foes (and friends) were Zzed, the Rat King, and The Heap!

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Halloween Horror VOODOO "Corpses of the Jury"

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For Halloween, we're combining fictional horror with the real-life horrors of concentration camps!

Warning: NSFW!

Memories of World War II and the Nuremberg Trials were still fresh in peoples' minds when this tale was published in 1953 in Ajax/Farrell's Voodoo #5.
There were stories aplenty of hidden Nazis being tracked down, but most involved them being tried and executed by Allied (American/British/French) law-enforcement, not spectral beings, and certainly not in so gruesome, yet poetic, fashion.
BTW, the identities of any of the Iger Studio creatives associated with this tale are, sadly, unknown!

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CoronaVirus Comics MEN'S ADVENTURES "Germ Warfare"

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The belief that the North Koreans would use biological warfare...

...dates back to the Korean Police Action, as shown by this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Men's Adventures #19 (1953)!

An uncredited writer, penciler Arthur Peddy, and an unknown inker produced this tale that showed Americans taking the moral high ground by not using biological weapons, just some gold ol' guile, using the enemy's own propaganda against them!

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Corpse on the Imjin

and Other Stories by Harvey Kurtzman

SGT FURY & HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS "Battle of the Bulge" Epilogue!

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Spoiler alert...We Won the Battle of the Bulge...and World War II...

...so now we return to 1967, when this never-reprinted story was published!

And as Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. heads for his lonely home, we bid you a Merry Christmas!

We're now into the month-long 75th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge!

And this is just the first of several versions of the turning point of the European Campaign we'll be re-presenting over the next month!

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SGT FURY & HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS "Battle of the Bulge" Chapter Four: Out of the Siege...and On To the Victory! (Conclusion)

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We Have Already Seen...

As Sgt Fury and the Howlers cover the American forces as they regroup to counter-attack the Germans, the squad manages to stop for a brief quiet interlude and even decorate a tree for some nearby Belgian kids.

But, as I said, it's only a brief interlude...

The Battle of the Bulge almost altered the outcome of the war, but real-life heroes stopped the Germans' attack.

We're now into the month-long 75th Anniversary of the conflict!

And this is just the first of several versions of the turning point of the European Campaign we'll be re-presenting over the next month!

Christmas Eve:

We Return to the Present (or at least 1967) for a heart-tugging...

"Epilogue!"

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