War Comics #21
Atlas [Marvel]
United States
- Published
- September 1953
- Page count
- 36
- Cover price
- 0.10 USD
- Colour
- Colour
- Size
- Silver Age size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/203202
Credits
- Editing
- Stan Lee, Editor
Issue contents
Cover
Untitled
Cover, 1 page
Credits
- Art
- , line art
- Sol Brodsky , penciller
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg, colourist
Notes
Possible Brodsky pencils per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com.
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
1Featuring
- Genre
- War
- Code
- C-366
- Characters
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- Joe Maneely, line art [signed]
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
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- Also printed
-
Navy Combat (Horwitz, 1958 series) #11 ([October 1959]) — Formosa
Synopsis
Freedom fighters on Formosa strike back against the Chinese army. Formosan Yu Yi-Huen recalls how the communists slew his family and he wants to make them pay. Fellow freedom fighter Kuo takes Yu to see his grandmother and she relates the complete history of Formosa and the many powers which have fought over it; Yu dies in battle with the Chinese, pleased to at least have been a martyr. In the USA, President Eisenhower encourages support for Formosa.
2Featuring
- Genre
- War
- Code
- 9126
Credits
- Writing
- , author
- Text
- , typeset
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3Featuring
- Genre
- War
- Code
- C-398
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- Bill Benulis, penciller
- Jack Abel, inker
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
Captain Devers is supplying black market items to the Chinese, but when a US pilot is shot down he picks him up in his boat. The Chinese demand Devers turn him over and he refuses, finally battling the Chinese and deciding from now on he'll be on the side of his own country.
Notes
art credits per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com.
4Featuring
- Genre
- War
- Code
- C-345
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- Gil Evans, line art [signed]
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
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- Also printed
-
Navy Action (Horwitz, 1954 series) #52 ([August 1959]) — The Flag!
Synopsis
The Korean schoolteacher Ki Li tries to befriend US soldiers by speaking English, explaining how he wants to move to the USA, but the soldiers are suspicious of him. When the Chinese move in, Ki Li flies a US flag over his town and the Chinese retaliate by killing him; at the sight of this, the US forces attack the Chinese and crush them in honor of Ki Li.
5Featuring
- Genre
- War
- Code
- C-263
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- Vern Henkel, penciller [signed]
- Vern Henkel , inker
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
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Synopsis
War correspondent Marone visits Korea to see what real heroism is; he witnesses how exhausted the soldiers are and yet keep fighting on, caring for their wounded and never looking back; he decides this is real heroism.
Indicia
The indicia for this issue is not recorded. The identified publisher might be an associated or parent company, rather than the specific listed publisher.