"Favorite WWII Comic Book (Round 1)" Topic

Ah Warlord…with all it's great cover mounted gifts.

The concealed plastic dagger you could hang around your neck(wait a minute – is this a necklace?), the handy spy's translator wheel which let you ask for papers or warn of an approaching spitfire in any Axis language.

And then Battle – with all those stories by people who would later draw for 2000AD. Major Easy was basically Strontium Dog without radiation and aliens….

…they were simpler times….

It's also interesting to see only Commando listed representing a whole range of Digest Size war comics. I expect that's because it's the only one still going.

But there were loads of them such as:

War Picture Library
Battler Briton (who wasn't a Command series character – I think he was in Air Ace Picture Library)

The bigger names ran for thousands of issues, but there were a lot more that had shorter lives.

I still have a box stuffed full of Commando, Battle Picture and War Picture comics.

The only ones I ever paid any attention to were Sgt. Rock and, especially, the Haunted Tank.

Best of both worlds for me. Four and a half years in the UK as a USAF brat, so I had Sgt. Rock, the Haunted Tank, etc., as well as War Picture Library and Commando.

Also, the Unknown Soldier (in the right hands) would make a phenomenal streaming series.

What was the name of the comic about the M3 tank crew. I have fond memories of that one. Was it General Stuart????

Sergeant Rock, and the Combat Happy Joes of Easy Company.

The Haunted Tank – and the M3 was indeed the General Stuart

What I didn't get – even as a callow youth – was how that 37mm gun could take out a Tiger

Where's "Enemy Ace"?

I'm told by people who know more than I that a 37mm hit in the right place on the Tiger's rear could disable it.

The Haunted Tank started as an M3 Stuart. Then they had their own wacky-mobile assembled from the junkyard, before finally ending up in a Sherman.