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Issue: Sad Sack Goes Home #[nn]
Publication Date: May 1951
 
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Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Harvey Information Press Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 16
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.00 USD
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Content Items: 2 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Leon Harvey ?
Disclose Notes: Produced by the information comics division of Harvey Publications.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover ?; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
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Sad Sack Goes Home

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
George Baker (signed)
George Baker (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous, war
Sad Sack
Sad Sack
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Sad Sack Goes Home

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
George Baker
George Baker
George Baker
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Subject Matter
humorous
Sad Sack
Sad Sack; Sally (former girl friend)
After doing every dirty job the Army can find him to do, plus serving time in the guard house, Sad Sack is called into the Captain's office and given his discharge papers. But when he gets out in the real world: having to buy his own clothes, get his own housing, buying his own food, and getting a job (and being better treated than he was in the Army), Sad Sack decides the best course of action would be to re-enlist!
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SAD SACK, like WILLIE AND JOE, had been a favorite of U.S. troops in WWII and Harvey Comics would produce multiple titles per month for about 25 years. This particular published edition was specially done FOR the military by Harvey and SAD SACK's creator, George Baker.

There were thousands of comic books banned and burned in the America of the 1950's, but here we have what may well have been the only one treated that way by military order. The Army spent $17,544 on 500,000 copies of this book. Senator Capehart (R-Indiana) denounced this issue as "Socialist propaganda", and the 6th Army, stationed at Fort Ord, California, ordered several hundred copies of the book (in unopened packages) burned.

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