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Issue: Fightin' Marines #52 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1963
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Issues: #52 of 163 Issues (169 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: Charlton [corner box]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Pat Masulli (Executive Editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age, later Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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Symbol of Decadence

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover is made up of panels from interior story "Symbol of Decadence."
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Home-Coming

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Bill Molno
Inker(s): Bill Molno
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Ray Ortiz; Manuel Ortiz; Hermana
Synopsis: After surviving an ambush in Laos, a U. S. Marine of Puerto Rican heritage returns to Manhattan. Only to find that the hometown jungle is worse than the one in Asia when he has to keep his younger brother from being framed by a street gang.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: A-2356
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The Day He Joined the Corps

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Harry Lonigan
Synopsis: Harry Lonigan grew up in a Marine Corps family and joined the corps, but didn't have the Marine spirit. In combat in South Korea, he spent most of his time protecting himself instead of his fellow soldiers. Until one battle when he was hit by a mortar blast and almost killed by Chinese Communist troops, before saving himself with instinctive Marine hand-to-hand combat.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: A-1834
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The Invasion of Mara Atoll

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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Pages: 1.8
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Statement of Ownership for September 29, 1962

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Patrick J. Masulli (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.2
Disclose Notes: Statement of Ownership for September 29, 1962. Average paid circulation for the previous 12 months was 135,899.
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Last Lesson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Bill Molno
Inker(s): Bill Molno
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Corporal Leo Flowers; Pfc. Joey Cash; Sarge
Synopsis: U. S. Marines try to win over a village in Thailand, but a undisciplined private off-hours gambling keeps them from making any progress. Until the Communists come.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: A-2529
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Symbol of Decadence

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Captain Hiram Hooper
Synopsis: Hooper spends years in the Marines in officer training, mostly doing paperwork. When a freak accident at a party in Tokyo sidelines a replacement to lead a combat company, Hooper is sent as a backup replacement to South Korea. Due to a mixup, all he has when he arrives at his combat post in his dress uniform, which makes him a prime target for the Chinese Communists.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: A-2029

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