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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published May 1959
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 84
Editing Roberta Strauss (Editor); Sam Birnkrant (Associate Editor)

Cover Details - "The Illustrated Story Of The Army"

Genre War
Pencils Doug Roea (Painted)
Inks Doug Roea (Painted)
Colors Doug Roea (Painted)

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Illustrated Story Of The Army"

Synopsis One page quick history of the Army.
Genre War

6 page story "Follow Old Minick"

Characters John W. Minick
Synopsis True story of Medal of Honor winner John W. Minick who was killed during WWII.
Genre War

5 page story "Here Comes Yankee Doodle"

Characters Miles Standish; General George Washington; Baron Ludwig Von Steuben
Synopsis Story of the early militia and how George Washington and Baron Von Steuben made them into an army.
Genre War

5 page story "Frontier Forts"

Characters Alexander Hamilton; President George Washington; Ohio Governor Arthur St. Clair; General Anthony Wayne
Synopsis The story of President Washington's struggle to force congress to allow for a standing peacetime army and the building of forts in the Ohio valley.
Genre War

5 page story "The Corps Of Cadets"

Characters President Thomas Jefferson; Superintendent of West Point Sylvanus Thayer; President James Monroe; Commanding General of the Army Winfield Scott
Synopsis Story of the founding of West Point Military Academy.
Genre War

1 page story "Two Too Many"

Characters James McNeill Whistler
Synopsis Amusing story about James Whistler as a cadet at West Point during an art class. James Whistler later became a famous artist.
Genre War

4 page story "Rifles And Arrows"

Characters Red Cloud; Roman Nose; Major George Forsyth; Lieutenant Frederick Beecher; Crazy Horse; General George Cook; Sitting Bull; General George Custer
Synopsis Short history of the Indian Wars.
Genre War; Western

8 page story "Custer's Last Stand"

Characters Colonel George Custer; General Alfred Terry; General George Crook; Chief Crazy Horse; Chief Gall; Chief Rain-In-The-Face; Chief Sitting Bull; Captain Benteen; Captain Reno
Synopsis A typical white man's version of the Battle at Little Big Horn with Custer as hero.
Genre War; Western

8 page story "Northern Raiders"

Characters Mitchell's Raiders; Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
Synopsis Re-telling of the story of Mitchell's Raiders during the Civil War. Mitcell's Raiders became the first Medal of Honor winners.
Genre War

3 page story "The Army In War"

Characters William Henry Harrison; Chief Tecumseh; New York State Militia Commander Jacob Brown; Brigadier General Winfield Scott; Andrew Jackson
Synopsis History of the War of 1812
Genre War

3 page story "The Mexican War"

Characters General Zachary Taylor; Mexican General Santa Anna; Lieutenant William Stover; General Winfield Scott
Synopsis Story of the Mexican war.
Genre War

3 page story "The Civil War"

Characters Dennis Hart Mahan; President Lincoln; General Ulysses S. Grant; General Jubal Early; General Philip Sheridan; General William T. Sherman
Synopsis Story of the Civil War.
Genre War

3 page story "The Spanish-American War"

Characters Theodore Roosevelt; Leonard Wood; Major Walter Reed
Synopsis Story of the Spanish-American war, and the discovery of the cure for Yellow Fever.
Genre War

3 page story "World War I"

Characters General John J. Pershing
Synopsis The story of World War I
Genre War

3 page story "World War II"

Characters General Douglas MacArthur; General Dwight D. Eisenhower; General Mark Clark; General George Patton
Synopsis The story of World War II.
Genre War

2 page story "The Korean War"

Synopsis Story of the Korean War.
Genre War

10 page story "The Army In Peace"

Characters Sam Donley; Bill Masters; Lee Wells
Synopsis Sam, Bill and Lee join the peacetime army. They take different career paths. All decide to re-enlist.
Genre War

7 page story "Scooter Burke's Peak"

Characters Lloyd "Scooter" Burke; Sergeant Foster
Synopsis True story of Medal of Honor winner Lloyd Burke.
Genre War
Pencils Sam Glanzman
Inks Sam Glanzman