Fightin' Army
#16
(January 1956)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Comics Group
- Brand
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A Charlton Publication
- Editing
- Al Fago (executive editor)
in 
Flight Of Fancy
Quigley and Beals / comic story / 14 pages
- Genre
- humor; war
- Characters
- PFC Patrick Michael Quigley; PFC Marmaduke (The Duke) Beals
- Synopsis
- Quigley and Beals are assigned to guard a Navy experimental rocket.
- Reprints
-
from Fighting Leathernecks (Toby, 1952 series) #6 (December 1952), #6 (December 1952) - from With the Marines on the Battlefronts of the World (Toby, 1953 series) #1 (1953) which is reprinted
- from Fighting Leathernecks (Toby, 1952 series) #6 (December 1952)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #264-A - Fightin' Army: Volume 1 Readers Collection (2019)
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Indexer Notes
Art credits updated to recognize that the Toby original was signed by Mel Keefer. In this reprint Charlton's production staff (probably Dick Giordano) systematically reduced the breast size of Lotta throughout the story, and gave the dream-sequence character Maria a much less revealing outfit.
Homing Pigeon
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- John Martin
- Pencils
- ? (illustration)
- Inks
- ? (illustration)
- Colors
- ? (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- war
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
first page of story says "continued on inside back cover" but it is on the flip side of that page.
Errand Of Mercy
Quigley and Beals / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; war
- Characters
- Quigley; Beals
- Synopsis
- Quigley and Beals are corpsmen duty.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art credits updated to indicate that in both Toby printings of the story the splash panel is signed by Mel Keefer; the Charlton production staff appears to have eradicated this signature. Two changes were made to this story to appease Comics Code Authority censors: (1) the stretcher that Quigley uses on both pages one and four to knock back the North Koreans is eliminated, leaving him looking like he's doing this all with his bare hands; (2) the beautiful female war correspondent on page two has suffered a significant breast reduction.
The Mysterious Idol
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Canarsie, Tex
- Synopsis
- Marines are assigned to guard an idol on an island.
- Reprints
- from With the Marines on the Battlefronts of the World (Toby, 1953 series) #2 (March 1954)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #264-A - Fightin' Army: Volume 1 Readers Collection (2019)
- Name of story changed to "The Mysterious Idol" in Charlton reprint.
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Indexer Notes
Multiple changes (aside from the name change) made to this story when Charlton reprinted it in order to satisfy Comics Code Authority censors. These include text changes as from "News Flash! Man-eating idol swallows Marines!" to "News Flash! Marines disappear!"; and illustrations removing the bullets that severely wound a Marine on page six.
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1.
Flight Of Fancy
Quigley and Beals -
2.
Homing Pigeon
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3.
Errand Of Mercy
Quigley and Beals -
4.
The Mysterious Idol
- Nick Caputo
- Gary Henderson
- Steve Newton
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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