Our Fighting Forces
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| Our Fighting Forces | |
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 Cover to Our Fighting Forces #29 (Jan. 1958). |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Publication date | Oct./Nov. 1954 - Sept./Oct. 1978 |
| Number of issues | 181 |
| Main character(s) | The Losers |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Robert Kanigher |
| Artist(s) | Jack Kirby, Jack Abel, Ross Andru, Ken Barr, Gene Colan, Ed Davis, Mort Drucker, Mike Esposito, Ric Estrada, George Evans, Jerry Grandenetti, Russ Heath, Bruce Jones, Joe Kubert, Irv Novick, John Severin, Tom Sutton, Frank Thorne, Wally Wood |
| Collected editions | |
| Jack Kirby's The Losers | ISBN 1401221653 |
Our Fighting Forces is a DC Comics war-anthology comic book series that ran for 181 issues from 1954-1978.
Writer-editor Robert Kanigher and writer-artist Jack Kirby [1] were among the comics creators whose work appeared in the title. Others include artists Jack Abel, Ross Andru, Ken Barr, Gene Colan, Ed Davis, Mort Drucker, Mike Esposito, Ric Estrada, George Evans, Jerry Grandenetti, Russ Heath, Bruce Jones, Joe Kubert, Irv Novick, John Severin, Tom Sutton, Frank Thorne, and Wally Wood, some of whom would also script.
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[edit] Recurring features
Features published in Our Fighting Forces include:
- Gunner and Sarge — two "Mud-Marines" and their white German Shepherd dog Pooch on a small island in the Pacific who first appeared in issue #45 (May 1959) and lasted until issue #94 (August 1965)
- The Fighting Devil-Dog Lt. Larry Rock (the brother of Our Army at War's Sgt. Rock — Marine wounded at Corregidor by shrapnel in his head that literally makes him see red on a Pacific Island from issue #95 until #98
- Capt. Phil Hunter — Green Beret in the Vietnam War searching for his twin brother Nick, a pilot shot down by the Viet Cong from issue #99 until #105
- Hunter's Hellcats — Capt. Hunter's father Ben in World War II who formed a unit of military prisoners (a comics copy of The Dirty Dozen) from #106 (April 1967) until #122
- The Losers — from #123 to #181 - DC Comics war heroes who had lost their own features:
- Capt. Storm of the Navy
- Johnny Cloud of the Army Air Forces who appeared in All-American Men of War
- Gunner & Sarge of the Marines
[edit] Collected editions
- The Losers by Jack Kirby (collects Our Fighting Forces #151-162, 240 pages, hardcover, March 2009, ISBN 1401221653)[2]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ McAvennie, Michael; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1970s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. "Jack Kirby also took on a group of established DC characters that had nothing to lose. The result was a year-long run of Our Fighting Forces tales that were action-packed, personal, and among the most beloved of World War II comics ever produced."
- ^ The Losers by Jack Kirby details at DC
[edit] External links
- Our Fighting Forces at the Comic Book DB
