(April 1962)

DC, 1954 Series
< Previous Issue |
| Next Issue >
Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly, with the exception of March, June, Sept. and Dec.
On-sale Date
1962-02-13
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
National Periodical Publications Inc.
Brand
Superman DC National Comics
Editing
Robert Kanigher (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from ad in Our Army at War #117 and copyright registration.

A Purple Heart for Pooch! (Table of Contents)

Gunner and Sarge / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jerry Grandenetti
Inks
Jerry Grandenetti
Colors
?
Letters
Ira Schnapp
Genre
war
Cover Thumbnail for Our Fighting Forces (DC, 1954 series) #67
Edit cover
Cover gallery

Safety Deposit Bank Vault (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Safety Deposit Bank Vault / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

8mm Motion Picture Projector / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Purple Heart for Pooch! (Table of Contents: 3)

Gunner and Sarge / comic story / 12.67 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Kanigher
Pencils
Irv Novick
Inks
Irv Novick
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino
Genre
war
Characters
Gunner; Sarge; Pooch; Colonel Hakawa - The Imperial Practical Joker (first appearance)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Characters added by Bob Bailey.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Our Army at War; G.I. Combat / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Buzzy Asks: "Do You Know Your Neighbors?" (Table of Contents: 5)

Buzzy / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script
Jack Schiff
Pencils
Win Mortimer
Inks
Win Mortimer
Colors
?
Letters
Ira Schnapp
Genre
advocacy; teen

Don't Miss These Two Super-Spectaculars! (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Superboy; Superman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

The Sitting Duck's Last Stand! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 5.67 pages (report information)

Script
Hank Chapman
Pencils
Jack Abel
Inks
Jack Abel
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino
Genre
war

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Metal Men / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Sgt. Rock's Combat Corner / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Robert Kanigher (signed as Rock, Sergeant)
Pencils
Joe Kubert
Inks
Joe Kubert
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Buddy Wright, Tony Glass, and Wayne Cooke.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Khaki-Yaks / cartoon / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
Henry Boltinoff
Pencils
Henry Boltinoff
Inks
Henry Boltinoff
Colors
?
Letters
Henry Boltinoff
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Corporal Brown was transferred here from the cavalry!
Genre
humor; war
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

Garcelon Stamps / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

"The Sight Seein' Sixth"... ...World War II Battle Story of the 5th Infantry Division (Table of Contents: 12)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
non-fiction; war

Dogtag Hero! (Table of Contents: 13)

comic story / 5.67 pages (report information)

Script
Bob Haney
Pencils
Jerry Grandenetti
Inks
Jerry Grandenetti
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino
Genre
war

Indexer Notes

Prototype for the later Weird War Tales series. The hero is a dead soldier who comes back to life to save his comrades only to die again. (Bob Bailey)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

Sea Devils / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Task Force (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

Task Force / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

American Body Building Club / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

American Seeds / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. A Purple Heart for Pooch!
    Gunner and Sarge
  2. 1. Safety Deposit Bank Vault
    Safety Deposit Bank Vault
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    8mm Motion Picture Projector
  4. 3. Purple Heart for Pooch!
    Gunner and Sarge
  5. 4. ["For the very best..."]
    Our Army at War; G.I. Combat
  6. 5. Buzzy Asks: "Do You Know Your Neighbors?"
    Buzzy
  7. 6. Don't Miss These Two Super-Spectaculars!
    Superboy; Superman
  8. 7. The Sitting Duck's Last Stand!
  9. 8. ["More startling than tomorrow's science-fiction are the Metal Men"]
    Metal Men
  10. 9. [no title indexed]
    Sgt. Rock's Combat Corner
  11. 10. ["Corporal Brown was transferred here from the cavalry!"]
    Khaki-Yaks
  12. 11. [no title indexed]
    Garcelon Stamps
  13. 12. "The Sight Seein' Sixth"... ...World War II Battle Story of the 5th Infantry Division
  14. 13. Dogtag Hero!
  15. 14. ["Whirl on an undersea roller coaster..."]
    Sea Devils
  16. 15. Task Force
    Task Force
  17. 16. ["I'll build you into a new athletic mighty-muscled all-male he-man..."]
    American Body Building Club
  18. 17. ["Make money get prizes with fast selling American seeds"]
    American Seeds
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Bob Bailey
  • Dwayne Best
  • Mark Boyer
  • Chris Boyko
  • Nick Caputo
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Per Sandell
  • Jim Van Dore
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.