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[Tri-Color Brian]

16 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

Pic no longer shows.  If only you'd switch to PB. 

[1950's war comics]

Like this "gap in the wire" photo but there was usually a reason for the gap in the wire and i don't think the GI could have made it that far   

[Tri-Color Brian]

3 hours ago, Tri-ColorBrian said:

I don't know why Flickr dropped that pic...that's never happened before...

[1950's war comics]

GREAT.. obscure war comics in this thread lately !!!!

[1950's war comics]

Just now, Tri-ColorBrian said:

I don't know why Flickr dropped that pic...that's never happened before..

Yeah OOAW had a a couple revolutionary war covers early on in the run !!

SSWS had some of the best non WW2 covers in DC war ... i reallly liked SSWS "GLADIATOR" cover... although i forget which issue it was , single digits i think.....

[creaturefan95]

14 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

Yeah OOAW had a a couple revolutionary war covers early on in the run !!

SSWS had some of the best non WW2 covers in DC war ... i reallly liked SSWS "GLADIATOR" cover... although i forget which issue it was , single digits i think.....

Star Spangled War Stories #18

[707comics]

3 hours ago, creaturefan95 said:

Star Spangled War Stories #18

Cool cover!

[vaillant]

One of the rarest comics I own (and one of the pieces I am more excited about) from Italy, 1942 – and probably the only one based on original reports of german war correspondants on the eastern front (Propagandakompanie).
(Jim/jimjum has already seen it).

Edited January 9, 2018 by vaillant
Added back cover

[vaillant]

Also from my collection, issue 83 of the french comics journal L'As, presenting in France "L’Aeroporto Z" ("Airport Z") by our own Federico Pedrocchi and Kurt Caesar.
Originally appeared in the italian Mickey Mouse journal "Topolino" in 1938:
http://www.lfb.it/fff/fumetto/pers/a/aeroporto-z.htm

 

Edited January 9, 2018 by vaillant

[vaillant]

Another issue of "L'As": the "Airport Z" story has ended and a new story started to be serialized: it‘s Kurt Caesar's own "Romano il legionario" ("Romano the legionary") originally presented in Italy on "Il Vittorioso" in 1938.
The leading character, one of the most peculiar italian characters of the wartime period, fights in the Spanish civil war. Since France remained neutral about the conflict, the story is rewritten and the character is altered to a generic french patriotic hero, "Martial", fighting south-american opponents.

[vaillant]

Federico Pedrocchi has been the forerunner and "grandfather" of our own italian Disney comics school. He unfortunately died in a war accident.
On the pages of one of the Disney italian journals he founded he created "Will Sparrow", an air pirate which can be considered the very first "anti-hero" in italian comics.
So far, Will Sparrow has been the only feature by Pedrocchi and Kurt Caesar from the period that has been published in USA that I am aware of. His first adventure appears – rechristened as "Sky Pirates – serialized in Sky Blazers. Here’s #2 from my collection (still missing a #1):

[707comics]

53 minutes ago, vaillant said:

Also from my collection, issue 83 of the french comics journal L'As, presenting in France "L’Aeroporto Z" ("Airport Z") by our own Federico Pedrocchi and Kurt Caesar.
Originally appeared in the italian Mickey Mouse journal "Topolino" in 1938:
http://www.lfb.it/fff/fumetto/pers/a/aeroporto-z.htm

 

I wish I paid more attention in high school French class!

The plane resembles a Heinkel He-111 to me:

[vaillant]

1 minute ago, 707comics said:

I wish I paid more attention in high school French class!

The plane resembles a Heinkel He-111 to me:

It might be: I admit I am very ignorant about war machinery (although I like planes and boats and the like).
I have never read "Airport Z" in full, but even in this case it might be that the french adapted the artwork (more unlikely, as the story – as opposed to Romano's one – is "neutral").
Thanks for your appreciation!

[vaillant]

This is the first page of will Sparrow as it originally appeared in "Paperino" (Donald Duck's italian's journal, created by Pedrocchi, which hosted adenture stories as well):
Sorry for the bad quality: whites had been "zeroed", it’s a found picture from the web.

US adaptation from "Sky Blazers" (beautiful recoloring, I have to say).
The dialogue looks heavily adapted, but runs very well in english.

[1950's war comics]

7 hours ago, creaturefan95 said:

Star Spangled War Stories #18

Thanks , someday i might start a run of SWSS !!

[1950's war comics]

3 hours ago, 707comics said:

Cool cover!

Yep thats it ! a fav cover of mine 

[comicjack]

1 hour ago, vaillant said:

Federico Pedrocchi has been the forerunner and "grandfather" of our own italian Disney comics school. He unfortunately died in a war accident.
On the pages of one of the Disney italian journals he founded he created "Will Sparrow", an air pirate which can be considered the very first "anti-hero" in italian comics.
So far, Will Sparrow has been the only feature by Pedrocchi and Kurt Caesar from the period that has been published in USA that I am aware of. His first adventure appears – rechristened as "Sky Pirates – serialized in Sky Blazers. Here’s #2 from my collection (still missing a #1):

Love that cover 

[zzutak]

A few mini-runs from 1955.  Only one is high grade, but all have minty as-printed cover inks and nice interior pages. 

[jimjum12]

[creaturefan95]