CATALOG RECORD

War Comics #21

Marvel · Series began 1950 · September 1953

Dates

colors: Stan Goldbergpencils: Joe Maneely, Bill Benulis, Gil Evans, Vern Henkelinks: Joe Maneely, Jack Abel, Gil Evans

Formosa! · 7 pages
Freedom fighters on Formosa strike back against the Chinese army. Formosan Yu Yi-Huen recalls how the communists slew his family and he wants to make them pay. Fellow freedom fighter Kuo takes Yu to see his grandmother and she relates the complete history of Formosa and the many powers which have fought over it; Yu dies in battle with the Chinese, pleased to at least have been a martyr. In the USA, President Eisenhower encourages support for Formosa.
The Fighting French · 2 pages
The Bandit · 5 pages
Captain Devers is supplying black market items to the Chinese, but when a US pilot is shot down he picks him up in his boat. The Chinese demand Devers turn him over and he refuses, finally battling the Chinese and deciding from now on he'll be on the side of his own country.
The Flag! · 5 pages
The Korean schoolteacher Ki Li tries to befriend US soldiers by speaking English, explaining how he wants to move to the USA, but the soldiers are suspicious of him. When the Chinese move in, Ki Li flies a US flag over his town and the Chinese retaliate by killing him; at the sight of this, the US forces attack the Chinese and crush them in honor of Ki Li.
The Heroes! · 6 pages
War correspondent Marone visits Korea to see what real heroism is; he witnesses how exhausted the soldiers are and yet keep fighting on, caring for their wounded and never looking back; he decides this is real heroism.