Battlefield
#3
(August 1952)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-04-08
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Animirth Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- ?
Ambush Patrol
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- war
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Korean War
Indexer Notes
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
Under Fire
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- A-580
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's easy to talk a tough fight...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Willie; Bronc
- Synopsis
- Willie makes the mistake of listening to Bronc, who is a lazy soldier.
- Reprints
-
in War (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #9 (1962) - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Korean War
Blood Of A Hero!
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- A-380
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- No one could look at Corporal John Murfree and believe that he had ever fainted from fear.
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- John Murfree; Clyde Mulligan; Traske
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Japan
Ambush Patrol
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- A-589
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Cripes, ain't it ever gonna stop?
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Danny Carter
- Synopsis
- Danny is just a cook who was drafted to fight the war. He doesn't want to be there, until he finds himself the only person who can save his patrol and becomes a true soldier.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Korean War
A Few Minutes More!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ogden Whitney (signed as Ogden Whitney (cursive))
- Inks
- Ogden Whitney (signed as Ogden Whitney (cursive))
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- A-509
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In wartime, any field is a battlefield!
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Mu; Ming
- Synopsis
- Mu wills himself to live long enough to see the Korean soldiers that massacred his village be killed by American forces.
- Reprints
- in Battleground (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #9 (1962)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Korean War
Helpless!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Robert Q. Sale (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Q. Sale (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- A-395
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was just a minor action on the east central front near Uijongbu!
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Joe Cooper; Mancuso
- Synopsis
- Joe Cooper tries to save a tank that is stranded in the middle of a fight.
- Reprints
-
in Battle! Comics (Horwitz, 1953 ? series) #1 ([July 1953]) - in War (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #9 (1962)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Korean War
Code!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Norman Steinberg (signed)
- Inks
- Norman Steinberg (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- A-401
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The right word can mean life or death on the battlefield!
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Private Bill Reger; Corporal Forest
- Synopsis
- Private Reger doesn't learn the proper code and his calls for assistance are ignored.
- Reprints
- in Attack (Horwitz, 1958 ? series) #1
- in Battle! Comics (Horwitz, 1953 ? series) #1 ([July 1953])
- in Battle Action (Horwitz, 1954 ? series) #67 (July 1960)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Korean War
Killed In Action
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- A-653
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is the beach at Anzio!
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Major John Henry Munroe; Joe Patterson; Danny; Captain Woods; Paul Munroe; Farrel; Mickey; Bellin
- Synopsis
- Sergeant Patterson takes Major Munroe's son Paul on patrol only to find out the Major's son is a coward.
- Reprints
- in Attack (Horwitz, 1958 ? series) #1
- in Battle! Comics (Horwitz, 1953 ? series) #1 ([July 1953])
- in War in the Army (Yaffa / Page, 1973 ? series) #3 ([1973])
- in Great War Stories (Yaffa / Page, 1973 series) #2 ([1975] ?)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)
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- Keywords
- Anzio; Korean War; Occupational Japan
Indexer Notes
Saltarella disagrees with the Tuska identification and feels this is actually Pete Morisi. Atlas Tales feels it is Tuska.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Ambush Patrol
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1.
Under Fire
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2.
Blood Of A Hero!
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3.
Ambush Patrol
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4.
A Few Minutes More!
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5.
Helpless!
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6.
Code!
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7.
Killed In Action
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Steve Dasinger
- Christopher Fama
- Del Gruber
- Steve Jenner
- Keith Mervine
- Mike Nielsen
- Banks S. Robinson
- Per Sandell
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