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1st appearance of SGT.ROCK
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On 11/22/2021 at 9:06 PM, thecollectron said:

Writer/editor Robert Kanigher addressed the beginnings of Sgt. Rock in a letters column from Our Army At War #168:

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Very interesting.  Thank you.  :golfclap:

I'll have to drag out my Pedrin to see exactly which stories in which issues are being referenced by Kanigher here.

 

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On 11/23/2021 at 9:38 AM, MusterMark said:

Very interesting.  Thank you.  :golfclap:

I'll have to drag out my Pedrin to see exactly which stories in which issues are being referenced by Kanigher here.

 

Both are from G I Combat: “The DI and the Sand Fleas” from issue 56, and “The Rock” from #68.

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On 11/13/2021 at 8:53 AM, APDallas said:

Thanks for the info. This is proving to be very interesting to me. So for decades it was considered that OWAW #81 was the agreed 1st appearance of Sgt.Rock and I can see that. It has "Rock" on the cover and it even says "THE ROCK OF EASY COMPANY". DC even reprinted that issue but NOT #83. Why would they do that if issue 81 was not considered the "first appearance". Who decided that issue 83 was the first appearance? Was it just a general consensus? Did the market decide? 

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Both. People read it and realized that the name might have debuted earlier, but the character first appeared in 83.

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On 11/23/2021 at 12:06 AM, thecollectron said:

Writer/editor Robert Kanigher addressed the beginnings of Sgt. Rock in a letters column from Our Army At War #168:

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At it happens I was thumbing through Sgt Rock #411 tonight (this is the first time I've owned this particular issue), and here is Kanigher's 1986 claim of authorship of Sgt Rock and designation of #83 as the first appearance.   I absolutely agree with the consensus that #83 is the first true appearance, but have to acknowledge in fairness that Kanigher is not unbiased here, since Bob Haney-- not Kanigher-- authored #81.  

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