But damn, this add for Our Army At War #203 makes me want to rush out and buy it. 
Cover art by Joe Kubert of course.
#SFWAPro.
I’ll never be a war comics fan—
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I wonder if it was the inspiration for the famous Days Of Future Past cover?
I’ve been reading old Brave and the Bold lately. Sergeant Rock has shown up about three times.
You’re right about the resemblance to Days of Future Past.
My favorite Sgt. Rock B&B is the one where the bad guys are forcing Haney and Aparo to write the story so the villains win.
That’s awesome! I haven’t got to it yet, but I think it was mentioned in the intro.
I just got to that story. I liked it. 🙂
I really like Kubert’s work on the Sgt. Rock comics. Not that I’ll ever be able to read them unless DC get their act together and release them digitally.
I mean the Showcase Presents collection goes for over £80 on Amazon UK
Wow, and those aren’t even in colour.
Worse still they appear to have used toilet paper when they printed them, lol.
Seriously though those things are supposed to be cheap and accessible to readers, DC really need to keep them in print to keep the gougers out of business.
Lol.
It’s one of many things I wish companies would keep in print – but gougers don’t affect them one way or another.
It’s a niche audience and they didn’t sell huge numbers, dooming future volumes.
I have read war comics, since I was a little kid. DC’s are only eclipsed by Blazing Combat and EC’s war comics, though i might argue the latter, given the entire body of DC’s publications. They tended to have a bit more mature writing (DC anyway, and Charlton, if Will Franz was writing them) and they had some great artists. Kubert’s Enemy Ace is a classic under any definition, right up there with All Quiet on the Western Front and that is not hyperbole. Sam Glanzman’s USS Stevins stories are some of the most accurate material you will find, since they were based on his own experiences, on that ship, in WW2, setting the foundation for his purely autobiographical A Sailor’s Story.
Sam also factored into Charlton’s best, The Lonely War of Captain Willy Schultz, in Fightin’ Army. A US soldier is framed for a murder and escapes across the lines and hides out with a German unit, as he is the son of German immigrants and speaks the language. He is torn between not wanting to kill Americans and being discovered, plus a sense of comradery with some of the German soldiers. Epic piece of work. They also collaborated on The Iron Corporal, set in the Pacific Theater, but less compelling and a harder premise to swallow.
Seriously, Sgt Rock, Enemy Ace, some of the Haunted Tank, some of The Unknown Soldier, The USS Stevens and A Sailor’s Story, Lonely War of Captain Willie Schultz, Vietnam Journal, the first year of The ‘Nam, Two Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, Blazing Combat…..all worth reading, with some of the best writing you will find in comics, and art to match.
Good enough for Roy Liichtenstein to swipe.
Urgh, Lichtenstein. Poser who pretends just because he graces comics artists with swiping their work he’s elevated it to art.