Army War Heroes
#31
(April 1969)
Charlton,
1963 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Press Inc.
- Brand
-
Charlton Comics
- Editing
- Sal Gentile
Issue Notes
Issue with purchase date stamp of January 7, 1969, exists.
[no title indexed]
The Iron Corporal / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sanho Kim; Sam Glanzman; Clemente Rezzonico
- Inks
- Sanho Kim; Sam Glanzman; Clemente Rezzonico
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?; typeset
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Iron Corporal
Indexer Notes
The cover is made up of three panels from inside stories.
[no title indexed]
The Iron Corporal / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Will Franz (credited as Willi Franz)
- Pencils
- Sam Glanzman (credited)
- Inks
- Sam Glanzman (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-1970
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There she stands, Bottler..
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Iron Corporal [Cpl. Ian Heath]; Earl Boswell; Lt. McKee [as Kee] (death); Bottler; Harry Simms; Sgt. Burt Newley (death); Eddy Sly (death)
- Synopsis
- The Iron Corporal and his team have to take out a Japanese radio transmitter station and tower.
- Reprints
-
in Attack (Charlton, 1971 series) #46 (May 1984)
-
- Keywords
- Australians; barbed wire; Japanese; New Guinea; Pacific; radio transmitter; tanks; Waltzin' Matilda; World War II
The Strangest Spy
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- war
- Synopsis
- How Jos Ringoro helped the Germans prepare for the attack on the oil fields of Plotzy in Rumania.
- Keywords
- Ploesti; Romania; spy; World War II
Indexer Notes
Written as a true history article, but may be fiction based on a World War II event.
The Loner
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Cpl. Arnie Howell
- Synopsis
- Cpl. Howell tries to think just of himself, but ends up risking his life to rescue two soldiers from the Germans.
- Reprints
- in War (Charlton, 1975 series) #34 (August 1982)
-
- Keywords
- Americans; dive bomber; France; Germans; tank; World War II
Indexer Notes
Art is dated March 22, 1968.
72 Tons of Steel
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Will Franz
- Pencils
- Clemente Rezzonico (signed)
- Inks
- Clemente Rezzonico (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- war
- Synopsis
- Two soldiers escape an attack by a Tiger Royal German tank and take refuge in a bombed-out farm house.
- Reprints
- in War (Charlton, 1975 series) #34 (August 1982)
-
- Keywords
- Americans; bazooka; Germans; hand grenades; jeep; machine gun; tank
Indexer Notes
Script credit from the Will Franz interview in Charlton Spotlight #9 (2015)
Cookie
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- A-4711
- Genre
- war
- Synopsis
- A cook trying to serve a company near the front lines has to fight off an enemy attack before he can get back to cooking.
- Keywords
- cook; Korean War; machine gun
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Iron Corporal -
1.
["There she stands, Bottler.."]
The Iron Corporal -
2.
The Strangest Spy
-
3.
The Loner
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4.
["On the firing line with our fighting forces"]
Charlton -
5.
72 Tons of Steel
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6.
Cookie
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- John DiBello
- Merlin Haas
- Paul Lefebvre
- Edgar Loftin
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
- Gregg Whitmore
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