American Update: War, Baby! Sgt. Rock, Sgt. Fury, the Creature Commandos and the Debut of Death! (In Marvel Comics, at least…)
*War: A cross-company update taking a many-faceted look at war. From DC, we have the final issue of the long-running G.I. Combat, which breathed its last in 1987 with #288 after four decades on the battlefield; Our Army At War #164, an 80 Page Giant starring not only Sgt. Rock, but also ‘Six Battle Stars’ and Weird War Tales #110, in which our grotesque guardians, the Creature Commandos, finally stop being an all-boys’ club. Marvel, meanwhile, brings us the Jack Kirby drawn Sgt. Fury #11 (with Howling Commandos in tow, natch), and two dollops of the 1970s title War Is Hell: #1, VF+ £19, with predominantly 1950s-era reprints and the Big One – issue #9, featuring all-new material and introducing the character of Death, as an anthropomorphic entity, to the Marvel Universe. Later better known as the unrequited love of Thanos the Mad Titan in an interminable sequence of Infinity This N’ That, this issue is where the bony gal got her start. War Is Hell #9 is VF/NM at £120; details of the rest, as always, in our online catalogue. SORRY, WAR IS HELL #9 HAS NOW SOLD