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Blazing Combat #3

Warren · Series began 1965 · April 1966

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Dates

Cover date: April 1966
On sale: January 27, 1966
Pages: 68

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Frank Frazetta, Angelo Torres, John Severin, Jerry Grandenetti, Reed Crandall, Gene Colan, Alex Toth, Dan Adkins, Gray Morrowinks: Frank Frazetta, Angelo Torres, John Severin, Joe Orlando, Reed Crandall, Gene Colan, Alex Toth, Dan Adkins, Gray Morrowcolors: Frank Frazettaletters: Ben Oda, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Alex Tothscript: Archie Goodwin, Alex Toth, Wally Wood

Stories

Special Forces! · 8 pages
Foragers · 6 pages
U-Boat · 7 pages
Survival! · 6 pages
The Battle of Britain! · 7 pages
The German Air Force has been playing the war of attrition with the RAF, and at the current rate, would wipe them out. However, newbie pilot, John Bassford, is eager but terrified when called to do battle in his first mission, and makes several blunders and has to bail out. In his second engagement, the whole squadron is shot down and Bassford is now left alone against the Luftwaffe, being shot down himself. But he has a surprise in store when he awakens from the mission in a hospital.
Water Hole! · 5 pages
Souvenirs! · 6 pages
A US Marine in the Pacific during WWII loses his life because of his obsession with collecting dental fillings from dead Japanese.

Reprinted in

The Blazing Combat Collection (2009), The Blazing Combat Collection (2010), The Blazing Combat Collection (2018), Blazing Combat (1978), Blazing Combat: World War I and World War II (1994), Creepy (1964), Eerie (1965), World of Wood (1986), Blazing Combat: Vietnam and Korea (1993), The Mammoth Book of Best War Comics (2007), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), Genius, Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth (2013), Creepy Presents Alex Toth (2015)