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| 'the UN have got their greatest 'Alley' in Bill Battle! and if I'm lyin', I'm dyin'!'
This superhero in a Sergeant's uniform seems to be a precursor to a number of Silver Age characters.
'The One Man Army' - OMAC.
'Sgt Fury and the Howling Commandos'
[It reads like a Sgt Fury comic]
Why do I get the feeling that Jack Kirby was well aware of this character?
One DC should have taken to their proverbial bosom.
Also, from #1 - I'm the best there is'
Wolverine.
And the character who keeps calling him 'Sargint? Gomer Pyle.
Lets, for the hell of it, Throw in 'Universal Soldier'.
Writer Bill Woolfolk, 'He became famed as "The Shakespeare of Comics" during the Golden Age of Comics ' Really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Woolfolk
He was an ex-soldier himself, and really has a ball with this character.
Cheers! |
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| Holy mascarpone, that was bad. Seemed like a simple minded piece of western propaganda. It reminded me of certain characters in British weeklies and I wonder if editors or writers over here were aware of Bill Battle and used this simplistic idea. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | February 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-Monthly |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; War | Characters: Bill Battle |
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| Comic Story | Human Bazooka (9 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; War | Characters: Sgt. Bill Battle; Captain Marshall; Private Redmond |
| Notes | Pencils credit from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/08/weisbecker-sports-and-war-at-fawcett.html |
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| Comic Story | Dawn is the Hour of Death! (4.67 pages) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Rhee San; General Pu; Hai |
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| Publisher advertisement | Ride with Moviedom's Famous Cowboy... Monte Hale |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale |
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| Comic Story | The Ghost Gunner! (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Jake; Pavko (death) |
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| Text Story | Twisted Track (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: John Martin (credited) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Captain Hank Brown; Colonel Fenchurch; Operative L (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Death Takes a Furlough (9 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; War | Characters: Sgt. Bill Battle; Captain Marshall; General Burr; Major Beesom |
| Notes | Pencils credit from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/08/weisbecker-sports-and-war-at-fawcett.html |
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| Advertisement | The Famous Red Ryder Cowboy Carbine (1 page) |
| Featuring | Daisy Manufacturing Company; Red Ryder |
| Credits | Pencils: Fred Harman (signed);? | Inks: Fred Harman (signed);? |
| Content | Characters: Red Ryder |
| Notes | On inside back cover in black and white. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Fawcett Comics are the Finest! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Fawcett |
| Content | Characters: Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Bill Battle; Nyoka; Rod Cameron; Hopalong Cassidy; Rocky Lane; Lash LaRue; Monte Hale |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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