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"The Silent Jet!" is reminiscent of "The Eagle-- And the Wolves!" from the first DC issue of the title. Which story do you prefer?

Kubert's great cover, unfortunately, has nothing to do with any of its inside stories. How suspenseful would "The Long Walk to Wonsan!" have been if it had featured an American G.I. struggling against his aquatic foe while said Nazi frogman holds dynamite? The sinking assault craft paints a haunting picture that visually explains what likely resulted in this dramatic scene.

To illustrate the difference between the EC and Atlas styles, here are two books from my collection with similar cover concepts but different thematic approaches:

45 minutes ago, AJD said:

TBH, I've never had one to read, so I have no idea about the contents. The covers are somewhere between the DC and EC ones in terms of realism and composition. As for the All-American Men of War #10 above, those guys with sub machine guns 6 feet away who are both missing must have learned to shoot at the Imperial Storm Troopers academy!   The story isn't great either, though it's not entirely silly. I read a history of Operation Bodenplate recently, and a British soldier managed to shoot down a low-level German fighter with a sub machine gun. So it happened at least once!

 

Those are very common occurrences on many covers published by them. The aerial tramway to a SAAF weather station setpiece is to me that AAMOW issue's most interesting aspect. I also love Grandenetti's use of perspective and other little details.

Cool! Isn't that the first time Pooch was white on the cover?

@AJD What do you think of Atlas' combat covers and stories?

Any thoughts on the cover of All-American Men of War #10 and how the accompanying feature compares to it? 

On 2/4/2018 at 11:07 PM, 1950's war comics said:

Battlefront #2 is seldom offered for sale so nice pick-up 

Thanks! Both it and the Man Comics #16 were purchased on eBay from a seller in Canada.

How realistic is the scenario on the cover of Star Spangled War Stories #25 and is the corresponding first story any better?

On 2/6/2018 at 8:33 PM, 1950's war comics said:

A French assault on German positions. Champagne, France., 1917

 

I found the movie in HD and watched it at two times the normal speed but did not see the above scene.

41 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

photo still from the movie does look totally authentic except that no cameraman would likely be there in real life.....

what do you think of the 1917 Champagne photo ?

I think it could be another image from the same film 

19 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

The photograph is from a movie as i suspected and may have known at one time but forgot... although i cannot find the exact scene when scanning through the movie

 

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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Armistice, Léon Poirier recreates the Battle of Verdun with soldiers who took part in it. An epic film, with a true emotional strength with no “real” characters but symbolic figures instead: the French soldier, the German soldier, the mother, the young girl, the intellectual… This pacifist feature was restored in 2006 by the Toulouse Cinematheque at L’immagine Ritrovata’s lab (Bologna, Italy) with the support of the Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema. (2K DCP presentation)

I found a source that indicates the above image was in this issue of a French film magazine (not mine):

3 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

i will have to do some digging to find those other two combat photo's showing both attacker and defender , one i have never seen except for being published in a book i have that i would have to dig out  from my library,,, the other photo is quite common , will find it soon but until then..

i have not read otherwise but i believe this haunting photo is either staged or from a movie , that or an extremely brave German soldier risked death and waited until an advancing French squad was almost on top of him to take the picture,.. probably from inside a concrete bunker if the photo is real , It is hard to tell if the leading French soldier has just been shot or if he is throwing a grenade,...can't tell but it is likely that the photographer would be shooting a gun rather than shooting a photo under these circumstances .. so even though the photo looks real i have a hard time believing it although i have not read one way or another about the photo's legitimacy .......

It's apparently a still from Verdun, visions d'histoire (1928):

http://blogs.webster.edu/webstertoday/2015/02/02/verdun-visions-history-francophone/

The film is on YouTube if you want to see for yourself: