(March 1953)

Farrell, 1952 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Excellent Publications Inc.
Brand
A Farrell Publication
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Issue Notes

Indicia: WAR REPORT, Vol. 1, No. 4, March, 1953. Published bi-monthly by Excellent Publications, Inc., 30 East 60th Street, New York 22, N. Y. Publisher, Robert W. Farrell. Application for second-class entry pending at the Post Office, New York, N. Y,. under the Act of May, 1879. Additional entry pending at Meriden, Conn. Subscription in the United States and its possessions 10 issues $1.00, single copies 10c. All names in this periodical are entirely fictitious. Entire contents copyrighted 1953. Printed in the U.S.A.

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Cross of Courage (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Characters
Chaplain James Tucker; Major John Carew
Synopsis
When the highest ranking officer in Chaplain James Tucker's outfit gets wounded, Tucker must take the lead the soldiers into combat.
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Indexer Notes

The final page of this story is reprinted in Parade of Pleasure: A Study of Popular Iconography in the U.S.A. by Geoffrey Wagner (UK, 1954). Parade of Pleasure (abbreviated POP in Overstreet) criticizes violent and sexual imagery in popular culture, including comic books, which was the sole focus of Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, published the same year.

Wagner writes, "War Report for March 1953 kicks off with the story of a padre who learns that might is right and who at the end brings a sword, not peace, with a vengeance. Chaplain James Tucker at first hates carnage but in the last pictures he hurls a grenade, shouting 'The Lord is my shepherd' and cracks a commie on the skull with his rifle-butt 'YAGHH!' remarking, 'And the lord has a long arm, my erring brother!'"

Swamp Mission (Table of Contents: 2)

Sargent [sic] Fuller, Army Career Man / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Operations...Report! (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

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The Tank Trappers (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Spitting Death: A Saga of the U.S. .45 (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. Cross of Courage
  3. 2. Swamp Mission
    Sargent [sic] Fuller, Army Career Man
  4. 3. Operations...Report!
  5. 4. The Tank Trappers
  6. 5. Spitting Death: A Saga of the U.S. .45
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