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Issue: War Comics #21
Publication Date: September 1953
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Issues: #21 of 49 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: U.S.A. Comic Magazine Corp.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Full Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Sol Brodsky ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Possible Brodsky pencils per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com.

Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
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Formosa!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Maneely (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Dwight D. Eisenhower
Synopsis: Freedom fighters on Formosa strike back against the Chinese army. Formosan Yu Yi-Huen recalls how the communists slew his family and he wants to make them pay. Fellow freedom fighter Kuo takes Yu to see his grandmother and she relates the complete history of Formosa and the many powers which have fought over it; Yu dies in battle with the Chinese, pleased to at least have been a martyr. In the USA, President Eisenhower encourages support for Formosa.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: C-366
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The Fighting French

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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From Content Item: FlagBattle #6 published January 1952
was The Flying Frenchman [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Job Number: 9126
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The Bandit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Benulis
Inker(s): Jack Abel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Synopsis: Captain Devers is supplying black market items to the Chinese, but when a US pilot is shot down he picks him up in his boat. The Chinese demand Devers turn him over and he refuses, finally battling the Chinese and deciding from now on he'll be on the side of his own country.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: C-398
Disclose Notes: art credits per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com.
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The Flag!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gil Evans (signed)
Inker(s): Gil Evans (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Synopsis: The Korean schoolteacher Ki Li tries to befriend US soldiers by speaking English, explaining how he wants to move to the USA, but the soldiers are suspicious of him. When the Chinese move in, Ki Li flies a US flag over his town and the Chinese retaliate by killing him; at the sight of this, the US forces attack the Chinese and crush them in honor of Ki Li.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: C-345
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The Heroes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Vern Henkel (signed)
Inker(s): Vern Henkel ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Synopsis: War correspondent Marone visits Korea to see what real heroism is; he witnesses how exhausted the soldiers are and yet keep fighting on, caring for their wounded and never looking back; he decides this is real heroism.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: C-263

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