Combat Casey
#21
(April 1955)
Marvel,
1953 Series
- 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
- Sports Action Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
Combat Casey / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Russ Heath (signed)
- Inks
- Russ Heath (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now it's just you 'n' me, hand-to-hand!
- Genre
- war
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
"Hong Ssu" -- Red Death!
Combat Casey / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Robert Q. Sale (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Q. Sale ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- F-634
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The tiny village of Pudong, in the rugged Korean mountains, was home to the Korean farmers!
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Combat Casey; Penny P. Pennington; Capt. Stone
- Synopsis
- Casey's outfit is sent to clear out Communist forces from a Korean town. Villagers warn Casey that the Communists are holding their children hostage in the schoolhouse, bound and gagged. Under cover of night, Casey and Penny slip into the school and smear the children with beet juice. In the morning, the Communists fear the children have come down with a plague and flee the building, right into the arms of the U.S. forces.
- Keywords
- gagged kids; Korea; Korean War
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
The Old Hickory Division!
Combat Casey / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Robert Q. Sale (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Q. Sale ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- F-668
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Springfields and the bayonets of the U.S. 30th Division doughboys were leadin' the Allied assault, as they slashed their way across the battlefields of France on September 24, 1918...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Combat Casey; Albert; Francois; Marcel
- Synopsis
- Casey narrates a tale of the U.S. 30th Division of World War I, the "Old Hickory Division." Casey tells how the soldiers discovered the Germans had built a massive bomb shelter out of a river tunnel, but the Old Hickory Divsion launched an attack on the tunnel, capturing many of the Germans with no place to run.
- Keywords
- Hindenburg Line; St. Quentin Canal; World War I
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
To Catch a Spy
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- C-108
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Intelligence officer Kent Taunton whirled down the main street of Fushun, Korea in his jeep.
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Kent Taunton; Col. Henschall; Kum Jak
- Reprints
-
from Man Comics (Marvel, 1949 series) #25 (April 1953)
-
- Keywords
- Korean War
Indexer Notes
"Text story/new illustration." Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
Hello U.S.A.
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Robert Q. Sale (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Q. Sale ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- F-635
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- After four years with the United States Army in Korea, Private Penny P. Pennington, and thousands of other G.I.'s have said "good-bye, Korea!"
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Penny P. Pennington; Lucy; Sergeant Pulaski
- Synopsis
- Pennington's time in Korea is over, but en route to San Francisco Penny discovers a pair of Communist saboteurs aboard his transport vessel. Penny handily defeats them both and the ship carries on safely to San Francisco.
Indexer Notes
"Submarine." Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
Go Get the Enemy!
Combat Casey / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Robert Q. Sale (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Q. Sale ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- F-671
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Combat Casey; Penny P. Pennington; Capt. Stone
- Synopsis
- In North Africa, Casey and Penny help drive out Nazi forces to help General Patton's tanks proceed.
- Keywords
- Battle of El Guettar; Gabes; Tunisia; World War II
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Now it's just you 'n' me, hand-to-hand!"]
Combat Casey -
1.
["Do you want spending money?"]
Stephens Credit Sales Mottoes -
2.
"Hong Ssu" -- Red Death!
Combat Casey -
3.
["Treasure chest "lucky" rings"]
Lucky Pirate Ring -
4.
The Old Hickory Division!
Combat Casey -
5.
["Want a U.S. government job?"]
Franklin Institute Job Assistance -
6.
["Join the treasure hunt for uranium"]
Geigerscope -
7.
To Catch a Spy
-
8.
Hello U.S.A.
-
9.
Go Get the Enemy!
Combat Casey -
10.
["Rare army patches"]
Patch King Military Patches and Felt Initials -
11.
["Gain weight in 7 days or don't pay!"]
Pounds Plus Concentrated Food -
12.
["They mailed this coupon... and look what I did for them!"]
Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System -
13.
["Amazing new way to a slimmer figure"]
Kelpidine Chewing Gum [Candy]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Del Gruber
- Matthew Head
- Michael Hoskin
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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