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| Publication | December 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Cover credits from http://www.normansaunders.com/comiclist.html. |
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| Cover | Korean Family Man |
| Featuring | G.I. Joe |
| Credits | Pencils: Norman Saunders (painting) | Inks: Norman Saunders (painting) | Colors: Norman Saunders (painting) | Letters: Typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Joe Burch |
| Notes | Cover credits from http://www.normansaunders.com/comiclist.html. |
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| Synopsis | Six facts about armies (facts on kites, land mines, howitzers, tanks, and fuel) and the indicia. |
| Featuring | Army Facts |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; War |
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| Comic Story | It's a Foot Soldier's Job! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sam Daily, a new war correspondent, learns what it is really like to be at war. |
| Featuring | G.I. Joe |
| Credits | Pencils: George Olesen? | Letters: Ben Oda |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Joe Burch; Sergeant Mulvaney; Sam Daily |
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| Comic Story | Korean Family Man (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Joe "adopts" a puppy and a young Korean boy. |
| Featuring | G.I. Joe |
| Credits | Letters: Ben Oda |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Joe Burch |
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| Comic Story | Frankie of the Pump! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Frankie, the cook for Baker Company, quits after a new guy, Henshaw, insults his cooking because it doesn't taste like rations. |
| Featuring | Buddies |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Giacoia? | Inks: Frank Giacoia? |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Francois de la Salle; Henshaw |
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| Text Story | Air Force Blues (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Ed Silverman | Letters: Typeset |
| Content | Genre: War |
| Notes | Writer credit from Ed Silverman interview in Alter Ego magazine #120 (TwoMorrows, September 2013). |
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| Comic Story | 23 Notches for Zeb! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zeb receives news from home that his father is ill. |
| Featuring | G.I. Joe |
| Credits | Letters: Ben Oda |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Joe Burch; Zeb |
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| Publisher advertisement | Beanbags (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ad for Beanbags #1 from Ziff-Davis. Includes a line-drawing of the cover (final cover was painted). |
| Credits | Pencils: Ben Brown | Inks: David Gantz | Letters: Typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Ad for Beanbags comic book |
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| Comic Story | Shell Shocked (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Whitey and Windy tour Basil Murgatrod, the Mayor of Flatville, around the base and almost get all of them killed. |
| Featuring | The Yardbirds |
| Credits | Pencils: Dan DeCarlo? | Inks: Dan DeCarlo? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; War | Characters: Whitey Hicks; Windy; Basil Q. Murgatrod |
| Notes | Dan DeCarlo ? credit from Jerry Bails' Who's Who and comparison to his later work at Archie. |
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| Comic Story | The Corporal's Tree (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Corporal Carpuccio strives to protect a tree from the enemy and from his own fellow soldiers. |
| Featuring | G.I. Joe |
| Credits | Pencils: Mike Suchorsky | Inks: Mike Suchorsky | Letters: Ben Oda |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Joe Burch; Tony Carpuccio |
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| Comic Story | Fast Dance (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A soldier trudges in from the front to go to a dance, but quickly has to go back. |
| Credits | Script: Wally Littman [as Littman] | Pencils: Wally Littman [as Littman] | Inks: Wally Littman [as Littman] | Letters: Wally Littman [as Littman] |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Garand Rifle (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Facts about the Garand Rifle. |
| Featuring | Our Army and its Weapons |
| Credits | Pencils: Paul Parker [as Parker] | Inks: Paul Parker [as Parker] |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; War |
| Notes | On inside back cover. |
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| Illustration | Soldiers Marching Up a Hill (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Back cover of comic. Heavily inked drawing of soldiers walking up a hill into the sunset. |
| Content | Genre: War |
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