Battlefield #4

(October 1952)

Mop-Up Squad (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

A-750

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The communiqué was terse, understated and broad in the details it neglected to mention!

Genre

war

Characters

Anderson; Pugliese; Jordon; Phelps; Ackerman; Lash

Synopsis

The Mop-Up squad comes in after a town is taken and clears out all the snipers and other North Korean soldiers that are left behind.

Reprints

• in Marines in Action (Horwitz, 1953 series) #48 ([July 1960] ?)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)

Keywords

Korean War

Indexer Notes

Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.

Flare! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Norman Steinberg (signed)

Inks

Norman Steinberg (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

A-748

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It is night...

Genre

war

Characters

Hurst; Krantz; Gordon; Goodley; Ernst; Baker

Synopsis

A patrol is sent out under the cover of darkness to probe the enemy lines.

Reprints

• in Battle Action (Horwitz, 1954 ? series) #67 (July 1960)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)
• in Atlas at War! (Naval Institute Press, 2020 series) (2020)

Keywords

Korean War

Indexer Notes

Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.

The Creep! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Vern Henkel (signed)

Inks

Vern Henkel (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

A-710

First Line of Dialogue or Text

C'mon, move!

Genre

war

Characters

Sgt. Keats; Novak; Berg; Benton; Krause; Bailey; Hart

Synopsis

Sgt. Keats never knew what it was like to have a family until some Korean villagers tended to his wounds.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)

Keywords

Korean War

The Unimportant Battalion (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 1.67 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

A-917

Genre

war

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)

Indexer Notes

Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.

Lieutenant (jg) Thomas Hudner, Jr. U.S.N. Medal of Honor (Table of Contents: 5)

public service announcement / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

? (photo)

Inks

? (photo)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It was a bright early December day and Lieutenant Hudner was flying a Korean combat mission...

Genre

war

Characters

Thomas Hudner, Jr. (photo)

Synopsis

Biography of Lieutenant (jg) Thomas Hudner, Jr. U.S.N. Medal of Honor recipient.

Reprints

• in Battlefront (Marvel, 1952 series) #6 (November 1952)
• in Spy Fighters (Marvel, 1951 series) #11 (November 1952)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)

Indexer Notes

Appeal to buy U.S. Defense Bonds.

Identity Unknown (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Dave Berg (signed as Davy Berg)

Inks

Dave Berg (signed as Davy Berg)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

A-711

Genre

war

Characters

Harve Berren; Jim Daley; "Johnny Noname"

Synopsis

A soldier with amnesia is captured and sent to a POW camp.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)

Keywords

amnesia; Korean War; MIG jet; POW; prisoner of war; Sabre jet

Indexer Notes

Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Battlefield Bivouac / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

A-723

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)

Indexer Notes

Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group. Letters by Joe Wallace, Gerry Szcowlaski, Harold Minetta, Bill Wheeler and Hank O'Brien.

Killer Sub (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Inks

Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

A-689

First Line of Dialogue or Text

An officer on the K-7 pushed a button!

Genre

war

Characters

Lt. Commander Frank Barstow; The crew of the submarine K-7

Synopsis

The tiny attack sub K-7 sinks a North Korean atomic sub.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)

Keywords

Korean war; nuclear submarine

Indexer Notes

Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.

The Road to Changdo (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Syd Shores

Inks

Syd Shores

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

A-923

Genre

war

Characters

Colonel Storm; Pinky; Angie; General Hall

Synopsis

Colonel Storm knows that infantry is the only way to take the town of Changdo.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([February] 2011)

Keywords

artillery; B-29 bomber; Korean War; napalm; Sabre jet

Indexer Notes

Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.