Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2000 4:05 am
All this reminds of a comic called 'Battle' (later 'Battle/Action' but it was never the same). Any Brits who were kids in the 70's will probably remember it.
It had classic stories such as:
D-Day Dawson (Sgt Dawson took a bullet near the heart which is slowly killing him so he takes heroic risks all the time).
Rat-Pack (a bunch of mismatched commandos including Weasel, the scrawny tea-leaf cum poacher and Turk, a huge bloke who I distinctly remember taking a 88mm shell from a Tiger while carrying a safe full of Nazi secrets and being OK)
Johnny Red (British Hurricane pilot gets lost in cloud and ends up in Murmansk! Joins a Russian squadron and becomes their hero)
The Team That Went to War (an entire local football team join up and end up in the same platoon fighting the Japs.)
Sergeant Without Stripes (the eponymous sergeant was stripped of rank for doing something against orders [but heroic nontheless] but his men still saw him as their sergeant.)
The Eagle (an SOE operative who basically won the war by assassinating Germans/stealing secrets/generally being good).
Hellmann of Hammer Force (a German panzer commander who didn't like his Nazi superiors and therefore was a good guy).
Another thing I remember from Battle was that all British, American and German soldiers died shouting 'AAAAAARRRGH!' (length determined by the gruesomeness of their death) while all Russian and Japanese soldiers died shouting 'AAAAAIIIEEEE!' (again length based on death nastiness).
I don't suppose comics like that are allowed anymore. They'd probably turn kids into car thieves and burglars and stuff.
Hang on a minute.....
It had classic stories such as:
D-Day Dawson (Sgt Dawson took a bullet near the heart which is slowly killing him so he takes heroic risks all the time).
Rat-Pack (a bunch of mismatched commandos including Weasel, the scrawny tea-leaf cum poacher and Turk, a huge bloke who I distinctly remember taking a 88mm shell from a Tiger while carrying a safe full of Nazi secrets and being OK)
Johnny Red (British Hurricane pilot gets lost in cloud and ends up in Murmansk! Joins a Russian squadron and becomes their hero)
The Team That Went to War (an entire local football team join up and end up in the same platoon fighting the Japs.)
Sergeant Without Stripes (the eponymous sergeant was stripped of rank for doing something against orders [but heroic nontheless] but his men still saw him as their sergeant.)
The Eagle (an SOE operative who basically won the war by assassinating Germans/stealing secrets/generally being good).
Hellmann of Hammer Force (a German panzer commander who didn't like his Nazi superiors and therefore was a good guy).
Another thing I remember from Battle was that all British, American and German soldiers died shouting 'AAAAAARRRGH!' (length determined by the gruesomeness of their death) while all Russian and Japanese soldiers died shouting 'AAAAAIIIEEEE!' (again length based on death nastiness).
I don't suppose comics like that are allowed anymore. They'd probably turn kids into car thieves and burglars and stuff.
Hang on a minute.....