#war comics

(1956)

some John Severin artwork.

This one's unsigned but the art has been attributed to Al Hartley and the writer clearly remembered the ending of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. The poor slob who dies here was a farmer in civilian life and talked his buddies' ears off about the changes Spring would bring. No moral, just brutal irony. And in another story, a three-pager set in World War II, we're shown how a navy barrage saves an American infantryman from German tanks, and then we're shown how he dies trying to grab a booby-trapped Outer for a souvenir. These things aren't war comics, they're death comics, closer kin to the horror and crime stuff than to superheroes. But maybe seeing a difference between war comics and death comics is just a relic of Comics Code thinking.

Spitfire Comics #133 - Cover art by Sam Cooper (1945)

Before he found stardom at Marvel Comics, Devil Dinosaur performed at few side gigs at competitor DC Comics.

middle 1960s silver age war comic for you all.