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| Only my second SARGE STEEL read and while not as good as issue #1, I still enjoyed the hell out of it. I skipped from the very first issue to this one because it’s kind of a sequel and features the same bad guy. Very entertaining story with typical mid-60’s elements as the series continues to embrace the era’s blossoming spy craze over its initial attempts to mimic hard boiled detective fiction. None of this stuff is very original, but who cares? I loved that they gave Steel a softer side in this story and consistently showed him thwarting good judgment because of it. The big lug falls in love! Art may not be greatly detailed at times and some panels are just wasted generalizations, but others are beautifully cinematic and filled with intriguing angles and particulars that, yes, are covered by expository dialog, but not as sloppily obvious as DC used to do back in the day. Fair warning to those not familiar with history or past eras of pop culture, there are Asian representations here which might give the vapors to more sensitive readers. Should this be you, my advice is to simply NOT READ IT. I’m looking forward to the rest of these SARGE titles, but will space them out for anticipatory pleasure since there aren’t a lot of them. A big thanks to all the donors of this great series on CB+! |
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| Publication | September 1965 | Price: 0.12 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Cover | File #105 The Caged Brain |
| Featuring | Sarge Steel |
| Credits | Pencils: Dick Giordano | Inks: Dick Giordano | Letters: Herb Field? |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Sarge Steel; Ivan Chung; Nhu |
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| Comic Story | File #105 The Case of the Caged Brain (20 pages) |
| Featuring | Sarge Steel |
| Credits | Script: Joe Gill | Pencils: Bill Montes [as Montes] (signed) | Inks: Ernie Bache [as Bache] (signed) | Letters: typeset | Job #: A-4986 |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Sarge Steel; Ivan Chung; Nhu; Li-Li; Dr. Crane |
| Notes | Story is in three parts: The Case of the Caged Brain (8 pages); Part 2 "Fatal Beauty" (6 pages); and Part 3 "Pick a Way to Die" (6 pages). |
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| Publisher advertisement | The Greatest Action-Heroes of All Time -- On Sale Now! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Charlton |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Son of Vulcan; Captain Atom (cameo); Tarzan (cameo); Blue Beetle (cameo) |
| Notes | Promo for Charlton action-heroes comics. Illustration of Son of Vulcan with logo, headshots with logo for Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, and Jungle Tales of Tarzan; and logos only for Sarge Steel and The Fightin' Five. |
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| Text Story | Special Services 3X (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The Special Services 3X use psychological warfare against the Viet Cong. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: MAjor Walter Henderson; Captain Nguyen Van Mai; Lt. Bob Sheridan |
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| Comic Story | Sport of Judo (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Using judo to disarm an attacker who has a knife. |
| Featuring | Sarge Steel |
| Credits | Script: Frank McLaughlin (credited) | Pencils: Frank McLaughlin (credited) | Inks: Frank McLaughlin (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Spy |
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