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Issue: Our Army at War #173

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Publication Date: November 1966

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Issues: #173 of 301 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: Superman DC National Comics

Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 09/01/1966

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.12 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 9 (4 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Robert Kanigher

Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; then standard Silver Age U.S.; then standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #242, 269, 275, 280)

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

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1 Content Item
- Easy's Hardest Battle! [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (9 total)

Easy's Hardest Battle!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Joe Kubert (signed)

Inker(s): Joe Kubert (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, superhero, war

Feature(s): Sgt. Rock

Character(s): Sgt. Rock; Easy Company

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Pages: 1

Easy's Hardest Battle!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Robert Kanigher

Penciller(s): Joe Kubert (signed)

Inker(s): Joe Kubert (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Feature(s): Sgt. Rock

Character(s): Sergeant Rock; Easy Company [Sid; Vic Lester; others unnamed]

Synopsis: While Easy is waiting on an enemy attack, Rock recalls Easy's first action in a battle against tanks in the desert.

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From Content Item: Flag

Our Army at War #99 published October 1960
was Easy's Hardest Battle! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 12.67

Notes: Cover is a reprint of the splash page. Chapters of 8 and 4.67 pages.

Lost -- A Free Education!

Public Service Announcement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jack Schiff

Penciller(s): Bob Oksner

Inker(s): Bob Oksner

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Ira Schnapp

Subject Matter

Genres: opinion, teen

Feature(s): Binky

Character(s): Binky Biggs

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Pages: 1

Notes: Appears in DC comics cover-dated October 1958 and November 1966.

Famous Army Firsts

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

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Pages: 1

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Robert Kanigher [as RK]

Penciller(s): Joe Kubert

Inker(s): Joe Kubert

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Readers-- Sound Off!

Character(s): Sgt. Rock (cameo)

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters from Leo H. Linder; Al Knowles; Frank Borawics; Alice T. Graham; Leslie Karuntz; Andy Moller (Canada).

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Activity on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inker(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Cap's Hobby Hints

First Line: That's a nice model you're painting, Billy.

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Idea from Dale Kent, Winnipeg, Canada.

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Direct Currents

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Pages: 0.5

Fustest with the Mostest!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Synopsis: First line: By 1898 such Tennessee army units as the Chattanooga Rifles ...

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Pages: 1

Notes: History of the 278th Infantry Regiment.

Fight to the Finish!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Howard Liss

Penciller(s): Gene Colan

Inker(s): Gene Colan

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Synopsis: In World War I, an American soldier fails to prevent a German soldier from returning from a scouting mission and the American's tank platoon is destroyed. In World War II, the soldiers' sons square off in the same cemetery with the roles reversed.

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Pages: 8.67

Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Schwartz kept editorial records for Robert Kanigher, who edited this issue.