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Issue Details

Issue #55
Published June 1968
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - " The Cry of Battle, the Kiss of Death"

Characters Sgt. Fury
Genre War
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks John Severin

20 page Sgt. Fury story "The Cry of Battle, the Kiss of Death"

Characters Nick Fury
Synopsis While on a mission, the Howlers are inside a building when Allied bombers make a strike. When they wake up, they find themselves in a hospital ward, presuming that they've been rescued by the Red Cross. Fury, finding himself in clean sheets, comes to the conclusion (jokingly) that they must be in heaven. The joke fades and apparent confirmation of his heavenly reward approaches in the form of an angel in white, a dead ringer for Pamela Hawley. The reality of the situation is that they've awoken in a Nazi hospital ward, and their nurse is a woman named Irma. Fury realizes this as, in the midst of his "heavenly reunion", Nazi soldiers enter the ward. "There cain't be no krauts in heaven!" says Fury. The rest of the story involves the Howlers escape from the Nazis, with Irma's assistance.
Genre War
Script Gary Friedrich
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks John Severin
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Synopsis by Ed Boner (via DC History Yahoo List, June 23, 2008).
Reprinted in Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos (Marvel, 1974 series) #151 (April 1979)