I remember buying this off the newsstand...and laughing aloud at the way Sarge Steel defeated The Talon's brainwashing: "I just turned off my brain when you began all that jazz!"
By positronic1
SARGE STEEL is interesting. I guess it's not surprising that this title (and THE FIGHTIN' 5) had a longer run than any of Charlton's super-hero characters. It seems to start off as a Mickey Spillane wannabe hardboiled detective, but the Sarge can't escape the influence of his military career, so it's also a hybrid war comic -- which then begins evolving more of spy/secret agent influence. So it's a fusion of a crime/war/spy comic.
Story in three chapters: The Talon Takes Sarge Steel! (8 pages); The Faceless Man! (6 pages); and Trial of a Terrorist! (6 pages).
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Feature
Charlton
Letters
typeset
Characters
Captain Atom; Doctor Spectro; Sarge Steel; Thunderbolt; The Fightin' Five
Notes
Promo for Charlton action-hero comics. Covers to Captain Atom #79 and Thunderbolt #51 are depicted, along with illustrations of Sarge Steel and The Fightin' Five.
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