Our Fighting Forces
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ISBN 1-4012-2165-3 | |
Our Fighting Forces is a war comics anthology series published by DC Comics for 181 issues from 1954 to 1978.
Publication history
Our Fighting Forces began with an October-November 1954
DC Implosion with issue #181 (September–October 1978).[1]
Our Fighting Forces one-shot was published in November 2010.[6]
Recurring features
Features published in Our Fighting Forces include:
- Gunner and Sarge (from issue #45 [May 1959] to issue #94 [August 1965]) — two "Mud-Marines" and their white German Shepherd dog Pooch on a small island in the Pacific.[7]
- The Fighting Devil-Dog Lt. Larry Rock (the brother of shrapnelin his head that literally makes him see red on a Pacific island.
- Capt. Phil Hunter (from issue #99 [April 1966] until #105 [January–February 1967]) — Green Beret in the Vietnam War searching for his twin brother Nick, a pilot shot down by the Viet Cong.
- Lt. Hunter's Hellcats (from #106 [March–April 1967] until #123 [January–February 1970])— Capt. Hunter's father Ben in World War II who formed a unit of military prisoners (a comics copy of The Dirty Dozen).[7]
- The Losers (issues #123 [January–February 1970] to #181 [September–October 1978]) — DC Comics war heroes[7] who had lost their own features:
- Capt. Storm of the Navy who appeared in his own series Capt. Storm which lasted 18 issues.[8]
- Johnny Cloud of the All-American Men of War.
- Gunner & Sarge of the Marines who appeared in their own feature in Our Fighting Forces.
Collected editions
- America at War includes Our Fighting Forces #49: "Blind Gunner!" by ISBN 978-0671249533
- ISBN 1-4012-3437-2
- ISBN 978-0486801582[9]
- The Losers by Jack Kirby collects Our Fighting Forces #151–162, 240 pages, March 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2165-3[10]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Our Fighting Forces at the Grand Comics Database
- ISBN 978-1603602334.
- ^ Cooke, Jon B. (Spring 1998). "Archie's Comics - Archie Goodwin talks about DC in his last interview". Comic Book Artist (#1). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012.
- ^ Arndt, Richard J. (April 2018). ""Nice" Is the Word: A Few Words on Archie Goodwin". Back Issue! (#103). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 10.
- ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9.
Jack Kirby also took on a group of established DC characters that had nothing to lose. The result was a year-long run of Our Fighting Forces tales that were action-packed, personal, and among the most beloved of World War II comics ever produced.
- ^ "Our Fighting Forces one-shot". Grand Comics Database.
- ^ Irvine, Alex"1950s" in Dolan, p. 73
- ^ Markstein, Don (2010). "Captain Storm". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on September 13, 2012.
- ^ "U.S.S. Stevens: The Collected Stories". Grand Comics Database.
- ^ "The Losers by Jack Kirby". DC Comics. March 11, 2009. Archived from the original on January 14, 2013.
External links
- Our Fighting Forces at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Our Fighting Forces at Cover Browser
- Our Fighting Forces and Our Fighting Forces one-shot at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
