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Issue Details

Issue #236
Published September 1971
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Joe Kubert

Cover Details

Characters Sgt.Rock
Genre War
Pencils Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks Joe Kubert (signed)

12 page Sgt Rock story "Face The Devil!"

Characters Sgt. Rock; Billy Boy; Bulldozer; Little Sure Shot; Jackie Johnson
Synopsis An old man comes out of the fog, claiming that Billy Boy is his lost son. Is the man real, or a ghost?
Genre humor; war; super-hero
Script Bob Kanigher
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath
Reprinted in Sgt. Rock (DC, 1991 series) #19 (December 1991).

4 page story "22 Hours to San Francisco"

Characters Alan Tomasz
Synopsis Alan Tomasz returns home from Vietnam. Vietnam war story.
Genre War
Script Mike Friedrich
Pencils John Severin
Inks John Severin
Notes No text to this story. The part of the story that takes place in Vietnam is in black & white, that portion that takes place in America is in color.
Reprinted in Sgt. Rock (DC, 1991 series) #21 (February 1992).

8 page story "The Empty Cockpit!"

Characters Lt. Jack Danner; Captain Kelly; George Danner
Synopsis Lt. Danner, a new Spad pilot, wants to fill the empty cockpit of the squadron's hero Captain Kelly.
Genre War
Pencils Joe Kubert
Inks Joe Kubert
Reprinted from Captain Storm (DC, 1964 series) #3.

1 page Captain D. Ring story "The Wild, Blue Yonder!"

Characters Captain D. Ring
Synopsis Captain D. Ring tests a new parachute device.
Genre Humor; War
Script John Costanza
Pencils John Costanza
Inks John Costanza

5 page story "The Third Enemy"

Synopsis A rookie Allied Ski Soldier learns that every mountain contains three types of enemies. WWII story.
Genre War
Script Bob Haney
Pencils Russ Heath (signed)
Inks Russ Heath (signed)
Reprinted From Our Fighting Forces (DC, 1954 series) #45.

6 page story "No Beginning--No End!"

Synopsis A look at war through the ages, from Cavemen, through Knights to WWI and WWII.
Genre War
Script Bob Kanigher
Pencils Frank Thorne
Inks Frank Thorne

1 page letters page "Take Ten"

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