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[porcupine48]

Ten cent hot dogs those where the days

id buy a comic!

[Scrooge]

 

Another, it came from the Baltimore show book - Eh! # 1, Charlton's entry into the Mad Imitator round-up -

 

 

First story splash -

 

 

The book also has a Buck Rogers parody and a Frontier Western parody. Good stuff really.

[adamstrange]

Very cool. Looks like fun reading.

[Robot Man]

It's a cool run of books. The last 3 covers are just awsome!

 

[damonwad]

Not your typical war cover.

 

[SushiX]

Not your typical war cover.

 

I'm Korean and I still like this cover!

[damonwad]

Not your typical war cover.

 

I'm Korean and I still like this cover!

 

It's funny how things can change over time.

My grandfather used to try to kill Germans and now my brother is married to one.

[Scrooge]

My wife's family didn't like French people and ... they still don't

 

Great book. That's one of a handful that features K-9 units and one I haven't seen many copies of.

[damonwad]

My wife's family didn't like French people and ... they still don't

 

Great book. That's one of a handful that features K-9 units and one I haven't seen many copies of.

I'm sure you'll grow on them eventually.

[SushiX]

Ya, some of my friends get a little offended at some covers but it was just the times.

[Sqeggs]

Ya, some of my friends get a little offended at some covers but it was just the times.

 

The guy on the cover is a North Korean. I've never read a war comic from the early 1950s, but I would guess that the South Korean soldiers -- who fought alongside U.S. and other U.N. troops -- would have been depicted favorably.

 

But it would be interesting to know if that's true.

[SushiX]

Maybe ...I'll definitely check into that? .

[Scrooge]

It is true. If you want to find such story, run a search for R.O.K. Check out these examples from Atlas -

 

R.O.K. in Battle # 30 & War Combat # 4

 

Atlas Tales Linky - https://www.atlastales.com/search/t:R.O.K.:z:s

 

From Battle # 30 -

 

 

 

From War Combat # 4 - Doesn't start as well in this splash but we hope by story's end, the sentiment is different ...

 

[Scrooge]

If you want to know more about this topic, I know that Leonard Rifas has been researching this issue for over 20 years starting with his 1991 thesis, "The Forgotten War Comics: The Korean War and American Comic Books" MA thesis, University of Washington, 1991. I emailed with him about the topic a couple of times, albeit too briefly.

 

Here's a recent interview - https://andy-luke.com/2010/03/19/with-leonard-rifas-pt-1-korean-war-comics-second-life-and-climate-change/

 

He has written other articles on the topic such as Korean War Comic Books and the Militarization of US Masculinity

 

[Scrooge]

If you want an earlier critique of these books, you can also chase down William Savage, Jr.s' Commies, Cowboys and Jungle Queens: Comic Books and America, 1945 - 1954. It's been close to 20 years since I've read it so I can't vouch for the information contained therein but it's a good start.

 

Amazon Linky - https://www.amazon.com/Commies-Cowboys-Jungle-Queens-1945-1954/dp/0819563382

[SushiX]

Wow !! Thank you scrooge!! ?

[sagii]

Here's an early Atom Age entry: Published late in 1945. Great American Comics Presents #1, proposes to tell of a 'secret ally(voice)that helped us beat the Axis and what 'really' happened to Hitler. The voice belongs to genius insect named 'Victory Bug'. The book is kinda violent and presented in 'washed out' color tones inside. The cover is my copy, the interiors are taken from the DCM (to 'present' better in this thread,)

 

Edited December 2, 2016 by Sagii

[porcupine48]

i want one.

[sagii]

I got this on the cheap in a CC auction earlier this year Jimmers. I belive another copy came up in a C'Link auction shortly after. Also at a steal price. It's really a cool propaganda piece.

[porcupine48]

Dam.Eyes now peeled.