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Issue: Our Fighting Forces #159

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Publication Date: September 1975

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Issues: #159 of 181 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: The Line of DC Super-Stars

Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 06/17/1975

Volume: 22

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.25 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #119.

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Format

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

Format Notes:

Reprinted In2

2 Content Items
- Mile-a-Minute Jones! [Illustration on Cover, Front]1
- "Mile-a-Minute" Jones! [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Content Items (4 total)

Mile-a-Minute Jones!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Character(s): The Losers [Capt. Storm; Johnny Cloud; Gunner; Sarge]; Henry "Mile-a-Minute" Jones; Bruno Borman

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Jack Kirby's The Losers #[nn] published May 2009
as Mile-a-Minute Jones! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: X-571

Minerva Menace!

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Aunt Minerva; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Comics ad for Hostess Twinkies from ITT Continental Baking Company. Inside front cover.

"Mile-a-Minute" Jones!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Character(s): The Losers [Capt. Storm; Johnny Cloud; Gunner; Sarge]; Henry "Mile-a-Minute" Jones; Bruno Borman; General Kessel; Adolph Hitler (cameo flashback)

Synopsis: On the way to capture General Kessel, the Losers save champion runner Henry Jones from his German rival Bruno Borman. But when Borman gets loose, Jones re-lives their race at the Berlin Olympics.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Jack Kirby's The Losers #[nn] published May 2009
as "Mile-a-Minute" Jones! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 18

Job Number: X-569

Notes: Jerry Serpe coloring credit from letter column in this issue.

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Synopsis: Letters from Paul Dushkind, Charles David Haskell, Steve Andrews, Robert Brown and Jim Rafferty.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: X-570

Notes: One of the letters mentions the coloring of issue #154, the answer is that "the coloring is handled by crack DC coloring freelancers under the supervision of Jack Adler. In particular, The Losers is handled by Jerry Serpe, who also colors Jack Kirby on Kamandi, Omac and Justice Inc."