War Comics.

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  1. Kuno

    Kuno Very Senior Member

    ...I will see Swiss comic artist Franz Zumstein today, he should be working on the fifth volume of his "Desert Hawk" series :)
     
  2. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Commando Comics July 2013
     

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  7. Mark Hone

    Mark Hone Senior Member

    Out of interest I have started re-reading my reasonably large collection of 'picture library' books which I found that my father had hung onto. I think that the popular wisdom is that the early ones are very jingoistic and simplistic with stereotyped 'Gott I'm Himmel' Germans and ' Banzai' Japanese and that they became more sophisticated as they went along culminating in the 'Commando' books of today ranging over many different wars with protagonists of all nations and creeds. As ever, re-reading these early examples dating back to the 60s and early 70s reveals a slightly more complex picture. I'm not pretending that they rival 'War and Peace' but many of these comics are quite clearly often written by people with military experience (as of course they would be at the time) and include in passing a lot of accurate technical detail and jargon. While many of the plots are repetitive with stories based on raids by commandos, paratroopers, LRDG etc and often involving the redemption of the lead character after earlier mistakes, disaster or wrongly suspected cowardice some do have a bit more depth. I was surprised for example how many of the ones I have re-read have sympathetic enemy characters, often doctors (in one case a Japanese medic) or correct, honourable Wehrmacht officers contrasted with fanatical Nazis. The Allies are not always presented totally sympathetically. In one striking example the hero, the leader of an LRDG type group, eventually goes insane and has to be polished off by his 2i/c! I must admit that on the whole I have found the Fleetway books ('War' and 'Battle' Picture Libraries etc) better than the DC Thompson 'Commando' titles with superior stories and more variety. I know that that also goes against conventional wisdom!
     
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  9. Deacs

    Deacs Well i am from Cumbria.

    Just been up into my mam and dads loft and found some good old comic books, from Valiant Picture1.jpg , victor Picture2.jpg ,Lion Picture3.jpg and also The Dandy,The Beano a few hours happy reading for me in the next week or so :lol:

    I will come back to inserting photos once I have resized the damn things.
     
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  10. Wills

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  11. rockape252

    rockape252 Senior Member

    Hi Wills,

    I found this LINK on Rocknet Ref Commando Comics..

    See http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/commando/44

    Are those Vickers Light Tanks on the cover of

    "Heading For Trouble"

    Commando Comic no 2151 ?


    And I cant believe the Rockape Officer wearing a Service Dress Hat (SD Hat) on the cover of

    "Arctic Convoy"

    Commando Comic no 2177 :)


    Regards, Mick D.


    PS If I've posted this info up before it's because of a very poor memory.

    Caused by holes in my head where the Rain gets in.

    The holes are very small that's why the Rain is very thin.

    "Spike Milligan"
     
  12. bamboo43

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  13. zahonado

    zahonado Well-Known Member

    Some time ago I saw photos of the Hornet version of the Lancashire fusilier story in Burma. Can't seem to find it now so if anyone has come across them, I would be interested in seeing them again.
     
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    Commando Comics 5000th issue
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  15. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Took a chance on volume one of Garth Ennis's 'War Stories' for a few quid on Amazon. Him being a bit of a comics legend for me after Preacher.
    Not great art, but not bad at all.
    Shall be investigating more.
    (Despite a squat looking 'Heng Long' Tiger with no steering wheel, what looks like a Jagdpanzerkanone in 1945, & Shermans with Carlos Fandango super wide tracks... but those are my personal issues.)

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  16. TTH

    TTH Senior Member

    I wonder...was Sid the Sexist ever in the forces?
     
  17. CL1

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    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    New Commando venture graphic novel a tad expensive though

    For the first time in its 57-year history, Commando presents a full colour graphic novel! Revitalising its original black‑and-white pocket‑sized interior artwork with explosions of colour, and blowing it up to a full‑sized graphic novel format, we’ve collected the first two issues of the classic Ramsey’s Raiders comic series about a rag-tag team of maverick soldiers operating behind enemy lines!

    Ramsey's Raiders
    Led by the roguish Captain James Ramsey, the Raiders are a motley bunch: two Scotsmen, an Englishman, a Welshman, an Irishman, and an Australian. They play by their own rules and are good at their job — very good — so the Germans have every reason to fear Ramsey’s Raiders!

    The Raiders Return!
    They’re back… this time in German-held Sicily! When their jeeps are destroyed, they’ll show the Nazis that a captured German staff car can make an equally effective — and deadly — form of transport!
    Ramsey’s Raiders Classic Stories
     
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  20. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Anyone else over the age of 60 remember drawing pictures of WWII dogfights in school? I think every boy between 5 and 10 drew them almost everyday. The teachers sometimes pinned them to the bulletin board replete with swastikas, machine gun bullets and bullet holes, stick figures in parachutes (which were often on fire). Had to have a plane or two crashed vertically into the ground too.
     
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