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Issue: Our Fighting Forces #116
Publication Date: November 1968
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Issues: #116 of 181 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/10/1968
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 9 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.; later standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Peril from the Casbah!

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Genres: war
Character(s): Mlle. Marie; Lt. Hunter; Assassins
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Peril from the Casbah

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Genres: war
Character(s): Lt. Hunter's Hellcats; Mlle. Marie; Middle Eastern Assassins; Nazis
Synopsis: Marie leads the Hellcats through a Paris cemetrry - and they're jumped by Middle Eastern Assassins!.. Earlier: The Hellcats brawl as Nazis creep close. Mlle. Marie opens fire and they dispatch the Nazis. The Germans are bombing passenger trains and trolleys with a secret weapon. They chase one train, but it explodes. Finally they track to the cemetery and meet the "weapon". "Fanatic thugs the Nazis imported from the East! The Devil's own suicide squad!" They detonate the thugs and save the day. And Lt. Hunter carries a (lightly) wounded Marie off the field!
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Pages: 11.17
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Born to Trouble!

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Feature(s): Jonny Double
Character(s): Jonny Double
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Promo for the Jonny Double feature in Showcase #78.
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Praise for Enemy Ace, Hellcats, and Frank Thorne

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Feature(s): Mail Call!
Synopsis: Readers praise Enemy Ace, Hellcats, and Frank Thorne, the artist.
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Combat Cowboy

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Genres: war
Character(s): Bronco; GIs; Nazis
First Line: The American West holds stories of the whip-cord men that settled the land...
Synopsis: Images of the Old West, homesteading, and fighting Indians are on Bronco's mind as his company digs foxholes to hold the line. "I found a home in the US Army!" As Nazis attack, Bronco fights to keep his foxhole, shooting and lobbing grenades at tanks... Reinforcements find the company wiped out. Including Bronco, who's found a "permanent home." Funny he was called Bronco. "He'd never been further west than Brooklyn, USA!"
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Pages: 6.5
Disclose 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.
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A Magazine About Today

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Character(s): Brother Power
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Brother Power, the Geek #2, with cover depicted. "On sale Sept. 5th."
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The Silent Tin Can!

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Genres: war
Character(s): Commander Frank; Dan Frank
First Line: My ship! Torpedoed from under me before we'd ever fired a shot!
Synopsis: Commander Frank's Ship 53 was torpedoed by a U-Boat in World War I. In 1941, Commander Frank's son is assigned to the same ship, which has been salvaged and refitted for duty. The old ship is too slow to fight, but manages to delay a Nazi battleship by ramming it.
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From Content Item: FlagStar Spangled War Stories #104 published August 1962
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Pages: 3.67
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We Double Dare You

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Feature(s): House of Mystery
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Disclose Notes: Illustrated generic promo for the House of Mystery series.
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Joe Kubert Is a Grand Old Name!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1

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