![]() ![]() 1 (September-October 1971) Cover of The M16A1 rifle: operation and preventive maintenance, (1969)Ĭomics weren’t limited to fictional accounts, however. ![]() While many stories include depictions of race and gender now considered inappropriate, they document public perception of these issues at the time. Navy Combat, Fightin Marines, Our Fighting Forces, Star Spangled War Stories, even Weird War Tales and Wartime Romances were only a few of the titles that featured the US military and war stories. Particularly during the Korean War, even continuing into the Vietnam War, wartime adventures in comics were popular alongside their other genre counter-parts such as Crime, Romance, and Western Comics. Joe, who began as a newspaper comic strip and later had his own self-titled comic book, is perhaps one of the most well-known military comics today, but there were many others. “Bethesda, Maryland” Cartoon Picayune, no. Contemporary comics on war and the military include graphic journalism pieces as well as comics by and about veterans themselves. Even before the United States entered World War II, Captain America fought Adolph Hitler on the cover of Captain America no. 2 no.1, (March 1941).įrom the beginning comic books have published war stories and adventures, profiling every branch of the military and visually portraying every aspect of modern warfare.
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