The 'Nam #1

Dates

Cover date

December 1986

On sale

September 9, 1986

Pages

36

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Direct - First Printing

  Source ↗
• Newsstand edition

  Newsstand

  A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

  Barcode 0714860243512

  This edition’s page
• 2nd printing

  Second Printing

  Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.

  This edition’s page

Creators

Stories

• 'Nam: First Patrol · 22 pages

  Private Marks gets on a plane, lands in 'Nam, gets assigned and takes his first patrol.

• Incoming · 1 pages

  Information on 'The 'Nam' series and a glossary of terms.

Publisher’s description

PFC Ed Marks arrives to Vietnam in 1966. He gets his first taste of the reality of the war when VC tries to destroy his plane on Saigon and when he fails to bribe the sergant in infantry HQ and is assigned to combat unit. On a search and destroy mission in the bush he sees the cruel reality of jungle warfare.

Reprinted in

The 'Nam (1987), The 'Nam Magazine (1988), The Punisher (1989), The 'Nam (2009), Marvel Firsts: The 1980s (2013), The 'Nam: 1966-1969 Omnibus (2025)