"Favorite World War 2 Comic Book" Topic

In order (for my tastes):

Sgt Rock (DC) -#1 in my book!
GI Combat/The Haunted Tank (DC) -a close second

War (Charleton)
Fightin' Army (Charleton?)
Fightin Marines (Charleton?)
Blitzkrieg (DC) -a rather short-lived version starring… The Bad Guys!

After those 5, the quality drops:
The Losers (DC)
The Unknown Soldier (DC)
Sgt Fury and the Howling Commandos (Marvel) -not to my liking

I'm sure I've left some out. But this is based on my youth and memory!

I thought of another one: the Osprey Graphic Histories. (I'm not a big fan)

Gunner and Sarge DC Comics
Enemy Ace DC Comics
Haunted Tank DC Comics
Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos Marvel Comics
Johnny Cloud DC Comics

We just had the Beano, the Dandy and the Eagle.

Haunted Tank
Johnny Cloud

My family was "fiscally challenged." I only had my brother's few hand me down comics.

Haunted Tank and I always liked the British digest series Commando.

My favourite was an issue of Commando comic #351 Iron Cross Tommy.

Definitely SGT. Rock.

Enemy Ace is WW1

Boy, are we showing our age. Some of these comics go back to the '50s (at least).

B

Hey B,
I feel I earned every gray hair! And yes, some even back to 1949!
My top two are Fightin Marines and Sgt Rock. They were almost a tie, with WAR being my third choice.

Sam

You forgot "Star Spangled War Stories" where troops were fighting dinosaurs.

How about Warlord!?

Union Jack Jackson is the character I remember but it had lots of different series in the comic.

Blackhawk

Haunted Tank, for sure.

The Losers
The Haunted Tank
Weird War Tails
Sgt. Rock
The Unknown Soldier

Sgt. Rock. He was just wicked cool.

Over in the UK it was the following in the 60s/70s
Commando
Victor link
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If we are including Graphic Novels:
Alan's War
Twists of Fate
Maus
Two Generals
I,Rene Tardi, Prisoner of War in Stalag 2B
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths

SGT Rock and SGT Fury and his Howling Commandos …

In the UK we had the Victor and Valiant. Both with some WW2 stories but later on came Battle andcWarlord. Both of these had a core of WW2 characters such As Johnny Red, Major Easy, Union Jack Jackson andvtge particularly visceral Darkies Mob. Nor were the characters wholly Allied. There were also stories based around German characters such as Panzer G man and Hellman of Hammer force. These comics were definitely of their time.

WW2 Sgt Rock though I bought all of the Haunted tank too.

Overall war comic is Enemy Ace.

Definitely Sgt Rock, when I did Flames of War my U.S. infantry was always called Easy Company.

Second was Haunted Tank, any time a M-3 stuart could kill a Tiger and shoot down a Me109 has to be cool

I grew up reading Commando and Battle Picture Library comics.

I didn't pay much attention to comics, so I don't really have a favorite but one of the guys from my platoon at Danang appeared in a Sgt Rock book in early 1972 (I think). Only one copy crossed the Pacific so this was a big deal for a week or so and then we went back to blowing things up.

LT

Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandoes

Add in: "Sgt. Hawk" from Atlas Comics…

GI Combat with the anthology of:
Enemy Ace
Grave Digger
Unknown Soldier
Haunted Tank

Loved them all. My grandfather had stacks of 1950s issues of War that I read.

Also loved Weird War Tales with all kinds of strange stuff.

Commando for me.

Still got a box of them in the attic.

Lots of dogfight stories with a character called BattlerBritain .

When I was a boy I had a US comic book history of D-Day…brilliant.
Also…in the UK in the mid-60s there were a few 'books'of pop-out cardboard figures…anybody remember them?

Indulge your nostalgia and find many of them here:
comiconlinefree.com
vlcomic.com

Sgt Rock was the only one I ever owned.

I forgot about Grave Digger!

I love Commando, Battle Picture Weekly (which immediately preceded 2000AD and was written and illustrated by many of the same people) and its competitor Warlord.

I enjoyed a comic series called 'Combat', illustrated by Sam Glanzman, one of my favorite artists. Each issue covered a major battle – the ones I had were Tarawa, Okinawa, and Sunda Strait (Australians, British, and Dutch vs Japanese?) Here is the Tarawa issue on ebay, I liked Glanzman's realistic style.

auction

Combat by Dell.

Ditto to rmaker -- Blackhawk. I had every issue from about 1956 to 1964(when they changed from blue uniforms) but when I went to college my younger brother sold them all :(

Sgt. Rock and the Ghost tank comic books were my favs.

Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandoes 'Nuff said!"

Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos
Sgt. Rock and Easy Company
The Haunted Tank

Mostly Commando for me. There must be about 400 of 'em in my parents bathroom still. Some of the earlier ones only cost 5p I think. I'll have to fight my brothers for them one day! Victor was another good one, it always had a Victoria Cross action on the front and back covers.

Sgt Rock (DC)
GI Combat/The Haunted Tank (DC)

Sgt. Rock, The Haunted Tank, Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos.

Sgt Rock and Haunted tank but I thought the Haunted Tank jumped the shark at some point so only Sgt Rock.