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Issue: Atlas Comics Library #4
Publication Date: January 2024
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Issues: #4 of 4 Issues
Title: War Comics Vol. 1
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/20/2024
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ISBN: 9781683969686
UPC/EAN: 978168396968653499
Price: $34.99 USD
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Content Items: 65 (40 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: 8.75" x 11.25"
Paper Stock: bond
Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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[untitled]

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Atlas Comics Library No. 4: War Comics

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Contents

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World War Atlas

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First Line: With this fourth volume in the Fantagraphics Atlas library
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For The Best WAR Tales...

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[untitled]

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Genres: war
First Line: Get our of here, you fool! Save yourself! That's an order!
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Peril in Korea

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First Line: I want to give you the facts just the way they happened
Synopsis: Greg is skeptical about fighting in Korea until his friend Mitch is wounded and cared for by Mr. Randall, a white plantation owner. When Mr. Randall is killed by the North Koreans, Greg finally comes around. Y'know, now that a white guy has died.
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You Only Die Once!

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First Line: It was one of those parties, and people were throwing questions at me
Synopsis: Vesey pursues Eddie King during World War II and finds King has adopted the identity of Josef Kinicheck and is serving faithfully in the army. After Vesey helps King take out a building of Nazis, King is wounded saving Vesey's life. Vesey reports King as dead so that in his Kinicheck identity he has a second chance.
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Blaze Reports for Bravery!

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First Line: He's lost a lot of blood, Lieutenant.
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The Chips Are Down

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First Line: Ten American soldiers, the lone survivors of "C" battery, imprisoned in a Japanese camp!
Synopsis: Major Delaney's men are captured by the Japanese and placed in a POW camp. Joe and Tex think Sgt. Blayne is heroic but disdain Delaney, thinking he's a coward. Delaney is interrogated and tortured but doesn't give in. As soon as the Japanese threaten Blayne, Blayne loses his nerve and prepares to speak. Delaney steals a gun and kills Blayne to silence him, then is killed by the Japanese. Joe and Tex realize Delaney was the truly heroic one.
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Battle Bait

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First Line: Me... I'm nobody in particular...
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The Infantry's War

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First Line: It happened in Korea in those first terrible days just past
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They Died At Their Battle Stations

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First Line: Is this were only a bomber!
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Shellshocked!

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First Line: Even to this day I tremble with terror at the sign of a sea shell.
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The Classroom Secret

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Synopsis: Ad for the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools.
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Corporal Stanford The Hero Of Anzio

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First Line: There's a rise of ground up ahead, kid!
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Will You Let Me Prove...

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Character(s): Charles Atlas
Synopsis: Atlas makes muscles grow fast.
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The Wild Blue Yonder

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First Line: Me, I'm Sergeant Dan Burrows...
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Now! Brand-New, Up-to-the-Minute Edition of Famous Manual

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The Zero Hour

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First Line: Through a north Korean sky, blood-red with blood and misery, wings an American plane!
Synopsis: Lt. Todd's paratroopers have their plane hijacked by Bates. Todd recaptures it but has to keep it from crashing in China, consequently dying as he lands it. In succession, Plank is killed while trying to get his money; Billings uses a mirror to attract the Chinese, who shoot him; McCullogh tries to storm a tank and is cut down; Meeks gives his life to destroy the tank with a grenade. Only Anson survives to cheer Todd and Meeks and jeer McCullogh, Plank and Billings, who "were weak -- each in his way!"
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Cross Fire!

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First Line: Our patrols haven't been able to figure out their strength
Synopsis: Floyd wants to fight the war on his own, but when Rick saves him from the Italians he realizes the importance of teamwork.
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A Book Of Regulations

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First Line: Straighten up those shoulders, rookie!
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Death in the Desert

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First Line: This is it, Pete!
Synopsis: Mike leads his squad on an assignment to Hill 609 to destroy an outpost. Mike loses all of his men, but succeeds at the mission.
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Tank Trap

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First Line: Sgt. Mike Slavski, he wanted his ugly mug in the papers!
Synopsis: Jerry goes along with Mike's tank, but Mike forces him to leave as they go to hunt a German tank on a suicide mission. Jerry watches as Mike destroys the tank, but is destroyed himself.
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The General Said Nuts!

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Fun for All!

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The Victory!

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First Line: All right, Major Hunter, if you think a tactical withdrawal isn't necessary then keep your position and advance when ready!
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Home is the Eagle

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First Line: There she is...
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The Zero Hour

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First Line: The battlefields of Europe have long cooled off from the sizzling holocaust of war which roared and thundered across its cities and plains.
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Sergeant Stuart's Revenge

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Feature(s): A True War Story
First Line: I'm in charge here, you ratty krauts...
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The General Said, "Nuts!"

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Feature(s): A True War Episode
First Line: Take a look at that friend!
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"Operation Killer"

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First Line: Oh, boy!
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Total Destruction

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First Line: More than the town of Keisan blew up in man made earthquake of T.N.T.!
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A Foxhole For Freddie

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First Line: John Anderson looked up at the B-17 flying low overhead and he turned to the rookie standing beside him.
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The Black Shark

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First Line: This is the true story of the U.S. Submarine "Black Shark"...
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Sergeant Storm's Mission

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Feature(s): Sgt. Sam Storm
First Line: Don't be a hog, Sarge!
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Be the Master Not the Slave!

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The Hounds of Death

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First Line: Had a narrow escape this morning.
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"The Deadly Decision of General Kwang!"

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"Uncle Bernie's" Toy Shop

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The Deadly Decision of General Kwang

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Feature(s): Sgt. Sam Storm
First Line: General Kwang seemed to know just when and where American G.I.'s were being shipped to Korea -
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Brass Hat!

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First Line: He was chained to a desk job, but his spirit was at the Korean front
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Fly... Or Wash Out!

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First Line: The captain's voice barked out at him.
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The Court-Martial Of Private Grant!

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First Line: Grant!
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The Sacrifice!

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First Line: The harrowing true story of action at the Korean front, and a medic's above and beyond the call of duty!
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New Silk-Finish Enlargement, Ivory Gold-Tooled Frame

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Alone!

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First Line: Fighting a war with a bunch of buddies at your side is one thing...
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Stormy Weather

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First Line: It could only happen in Korea, and it could only happen to Sergeant Sam Storm, and his side-kick
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The Twist Of Death

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First Line: Doctor Kurt Schultz was a German citizen who had been imprisoned by the Nazis for over a year
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The Fighting Machines!

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First Line: No, I'm not a soldier!
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A.P.O.

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First Line: Just some words written in ink on an ordinary sheet of paper...
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No Survivors!

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Be a Success As a Radio-Television Technician

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No Survivors

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First Line: There were three of them in that muddy shellhole in Korea...
Synopsis: Jonsey compares the war to ants fighting in the ground beneath them. When fighting breaks out the US soldiers are decimated until only Jonsey is left. He tries to run away but sees the ants and remembers like them, he cannot escape. He prepares himself for battle, facing the enemy hordes alone.
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The Road Back

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First Line: In the murky dawn, on October 20, 1944, the first waves of assault troops landed on the shores of Leyte
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The Face of the Enemy

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First Line: Is the enemy human?
Synopsis: Walton believes most of what he hears about the enemy is propaganda. When he's injured in battle and an enemy officer bandages him up he begins to think he was right until he realizes he's going to be used as bait to entrap other soldiers. Hurling a signal torch into an ammo dump he causes an explosion which kills himself and his captors.
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Road Block!

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First Line: To a general, war is a cold, calculating enterprise...
Synopsis: The story of how the US Army trapped the Afrika Korps in an ambush at Kasserine Pass.
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Final Mission

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First Line: Flight Commander Mathers was a bitter man...
Synopsis: Mathers is a heartless pilot but when his command wing is surrounded by MIGs he fights them solo, buying time for his pilots to escape.
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Job Number: 9377
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Given! Premiums or Cash Given!

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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for prizes offered for sales of White Cloverine Brand Salve from Wilson Chem. Co.
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Disclose Notes: Profiles of Mike Becker, Allen Bellman, Dave Berg, Hank Chapman, Gene Colan, John D'Agostino Sr., Al Eadak, Henry Allen "Al" Hartley, Russ Heath, Vernon Kenkel, George Klein, Bill Lacava, Joe Maneely, Pete Morisi, Jay Scott Pike, Mike Sekowsky, Norman Steinberg, John Tartaglione.
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Fantagraphics' fourth volume of the Atlas Library

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Disclose Notes: Back cover with blurb copy and cover of War Comics #1.

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