War Comics

We are fortunate today to have a guest author for this posting, my good friend and original art collector, Don Mangus, talking about of one...

As this year sees the fiftieth anniversary of Commando comics, I thought it might be instructive and hopefully fun to take a brief detour and look at the comics that started the whole trend off in the first place so here's the first ten covers of Amalgamated Press's War Picture Library which was launched on a tentative two a month basis in October of 1958, some thirteen years after the cessation of hostilities. As a result of some superb investigative work by Steve Holland (author, ephemera…

DC July 1982 Joe Kubert cover art

It's great to see how much of the detritus of 20th century pop culture has been retrieved from the ash bin of history and polished up and presented to a new generation for more serious study and appreciation. There was...

Spirit tigers rock. Yes, it’s true: the dramatic storyline and sumptuously dark artwork make this story a real standout in DC’s anthology series, Weird War Tales. But what really sold u…

Visit the POP CULTURE SHOP eCRATER Store! Visit the POP CULTURE SHOP eBAY Store! THE 'NAM GRAPHIC NOVEL Hard to find COLLECTOR'S ITEM! * Paperback: 96 pages * Publisher: Marvel Entertainment Group; Comic edition (May 1999) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0785107185 * ISBN-13: 978-0785107187 Product Description Don't worry about choosing sides, because this far into the heart of darkness things get pretty gray. Follow Private Ed Marks and his fellow soldiers through a jungle of blood, lies…

Y por fin la cuarta y última entrega de los 101 artistas más grandes de la historia del comic-book. A estas alturas no creo que haga falta detallar otra vez de qué va el evento, así que en los siguientes enlaces podéis repasar la primera, segunda y tercera entregas de estos 101 maestros del comic-book americano y las evoluciones del resto de blogs implicados en el evento en La Canción de Tristan, Hombre de Trapo y Una Vida de Historietas... sin más que añadir, a continuación la gran traca…

For a certain type of kid growing up in the 1970s, Airfix kits were the bedroom hobby of choice, Clarke’s Commando shoes were de rigueur in the playground and battling the Germans with shouts of “donner und blitzen” an “mein...

Cover art by Dick Giordano. Art restoration and new colour by Scott Dutton. #charlton #charltoncomics #comics #comicbooks #comicbookart #worldwar2 #ww2 #usmarines #marines #war #dickgiordano