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Issue: Combat Kelly #43
Publication Date: June 1957
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Issues: #43 of 44 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Sphere Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/02/1957
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: On sale date determined by newsstand/distributor date stamp.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Maneely (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Combat Kelly
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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Red Assault on Hill 313!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dave Berg (signed)
Inker(s): Dave Berg ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Combat Kelly
Character(s): Combat Kelly; Lieutenant Banner; Comrade Major (Red Chinese); Cookie Novak
Synopsis: Kelly must take hill 313 from the Reds. After avoiding boulders being rolled down the hill, Kelly and Lieutenant Banner and the men take hill 313. Red reinforcements come to retake the hill but Cookie had found a spring when digging his foxhole and Kelly uses the water to make the hill a mudslide, preventing the Reds from taking it back.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: L-951
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The Uses of the Past

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1.66
Job Number: G-244
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The Trap!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dave Berg (signed)
Inker(s): Dave Berg ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Combat Kelly
Character(s): Combat Kelly (as a private); Captain Thorn; Cookie Novak; unnamed Japanese Major
Synopsis: Flashback story of Kelly and the Baker Company during World War II fighting on a Japanese atoll. Kelly and Cookie capture Japanese miniature tanks. The Japanese have a remote control for the tanks guns and plan to recapture them after making them not work. Kelly outwits them by rigging the tanks to blow up when retaken and destroys the Japanese camp.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: M-109
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Lost in No Man's Land!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dave Berg (signed)
Inker(s): Dave Berg ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): True War Stories that Made History...Told By Combat Kelly
Character(s): Combat Kelly (only as intro narrator); amnesiac soldier; unnamed German Captain: unnamed American Captain; unnamed American Sergeant
Synopsis: An amnesiac soldier in American uniform is wandering the battlefields of World War I. He encounters a German artillery outfit and is shot at and begins shooting back. He single handedly destroys the German's big gun, allowing the Americans to advance. When approached by the American Sergeant he is knocked unconscious by him. When questioned by his Captain, the Sergeant replied that he asked for his name rank and serial number, the hero responded in German. He was a German spy sent to destroy the American gun but had amnesia due to an exploding shell.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-39
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The Capture of Captain Thorn!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Chuck Miller
Inker(s): Chuck Miller ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Cookie Novak
Character(s): Cookie Novak; the three Bacardi Brothers; unnamed Sergeant; Comrade Major; Captain Thorn
Synopsis: Captain Thorn has been captured and Cookie and the Sergeant have to rescue him. They find out he is on the second floor of a building in the Red Interrogation Camp. The Bacardi Brothers - a former circus act of acrobats - volunteer to get Captain Thorn out. Climbing on top of each other they rescue Captain Thorn.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-51
Disclose Notes: Previous indexer credited Dave Berg pencils and inks.
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Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
First Line: Ownership Statement
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Pages: 0.34
Disclose Notes: For 1 Oct 1956. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager.
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Run, Doggies...Run!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dave Berg (signed)
Inker(s): Dave Berg ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Combat Kelly
Character(s): Combat Kelly; Captain Thorn; Chu Lu; Comrade Major
Synopsis: Combat Kelly and Captain Thorn are approached by a Korean village elder named Chu Lu who asks that they do not destroy the village Temple. Captain Thorn agrees. The Red Chinese have set up their artillery O.P. in the Temple and Baker Company's efforts to take it fail. Since Thorn made a promise not to destroy the sacred shrine, the Americans retreat. Seeing the Americans retreat the Reds come out yelling and celebrating. Unknown to them, not all of Baker Company left and enough remained hidden in the trenches to capture them and the Temple.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: M 55

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