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COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Combat Kelly 11 Universal
Grade: 8.5
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 1971262004
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Custom Sets: Designed for Delinquency
Sets Competing: Top POP  Score: 168
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Combat Kelly #11 is referenced in Geoffrey Wagner’s “Parade of Pleasure” (POP) in the text on page 94 and as color illustration.

On page 94, Wagner describes the unrealistic portrayal of war in comic books and provides the following example: “A favourite, recurrent, screamingly funny joke is for two commie soldiers to make simultaneous bayonet lunges at the grinning GI hero (‘I’m surrounded,’ he winks at us), who then ducks, with the result that the commies kill each other. Even on the most bathetic of crass Hollywood screens this sort of thing would seem rather stiff, but, believe it or not, I found this identical situation recently in two contemporaneous war-comics, Combat Casey no 8 and Combat Kelly no 11”.

In addition to the text reference, the cover of Combat Kelly #11 is referenced in full color on the POP dust jacket.


 
 
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