Combat Kelly #43

(June 1957)

Red Assault on Hill 313! (Table of Contents: 1)

Combat Kelly / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Dave Berg (signed)

Inks

Dave Berg ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-951

Genre

war

Characters

Combat Kelly; Lieutenant Banner; Comrade Major (Red Chinese); Cookie Novak

Synopsis

Kelly must take hill 313 from the Reds. After avoiding boulders being rolled down the hill, Kelly and Lieutenant Banner and the men take hill 313. Red reinforcements come to retake the hill but Cookie had found a spring when digging his foxhole and Kelly uses the water to make the hill a mudslide, preventing the Reds from taking it back.

The Uses of the Past (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 1.66 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

G-244

Genre

military

The Trap! (Table of Contents: 3)

Combat Kelly / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Dave Berg (signed)

Inks

Dave Berg ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

M-109

Genre

war

Characters

Combat Kelly (as a private); Captain Thorn; Cookie Novak; unnamed Japanese Major

Synopsis

Flashback story of Kelly and the Baker Company during World War II fighting on a Japanese atoll. Kelly and Cookie capture Japanese miniature tanks. The Japanese have a remote control for the tanks guns and plan to recapture them after making them not work. Kelly outwits them by rigging the tanks to blow up when retaken and destroys the Japanese camp.

Lost in No Man's Land! (Table of Contents: 4)

True War Stories that Made History... Told By Combat Kelly / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Dave Berg (signed)

Inks

Dave Berg ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

M-39

Genre

war

Characters

Combat Kelly (only as intro narrator); amnesiac soldier; unnamed German Captain: unnamed American Captain; unnamed American Sergeant

Synopsis

An amnesiac soldier in American uniform is wandering the battlefields of World War I. He encounters a German artillery outfit and is shot at and begins shooting back. He single handedly destroys the German's big gun, allowing the Americans to advance. When approached by the American Sergeant he is knocked unconscious by him. When questioned by his Captain, the Sergeant replied that he asked for his name rank and serial number, the hero responded in German. He was a German spy sent to destroy the American gun but had amnesia due to an exploding shell.

Indexer Notes

Combat Kelly as narrator only.

The Capture of Captain Thorn! (Table of Contents: 5)

Cookie's Combat Tales / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Chuck Miller

Inks

Chuck Miller ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

M-51

Genre

war

Characters

Cookie Novak; the three Bacardi Brothers; unnamed Sergeant; Comrade Major; Captain Thorn

Synopsis

Captain Thorn has been captured and Cookie and the Sergeant have to rescue him. They find out he is on the second floor of a building in the Red Interrogation Camp. The Bacardi Brothers - a former circus act of acrobats - volunteer to get Captain Thorn out. Climbing on top of each other they rescue Captain Thorn.

Indexer Notes

Previous indexer credited Dave Berg pencils and inks.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

statement of ownership / 0.34 page (report information)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Statement required by the act of August 24, 1912...

Indexer Notes

For 1 Oct 1956. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager.

Run, Doggies... Run! (Table of Contents: 7)

Combat Kelly / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Dave Berg (signed)

Inks

Dave Berg ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

M 55

Genre

war

Characters

Combat Kelly; Captain Thorn; Chu Lu; Comrade Major

Synopsis

Combat Kelly and Captain Thorn are approached by a Korean village elder named Chu Lu who asks that they do not destroy the village Temple. Captain Thorn agrees. The Red Chinese have set up their artillery O.P. in the Temple and Baker Company's efforts to take it fail. Since Thorn made a promise not to destroy the sacred shrine, the Americans retreat. Seeing the Americans retreat the Reds come out yelling and celebrating. Unknown to them, not all of Baker Company left and enough remained hidden in the trenches to capture them and the Temple.