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Combat Kelly 11 |
| Item: |
Combat Kelly 11 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1971262004
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Owner Comments
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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| Slot: |
Combat Kelly 12 |
| Item: |
Combat Kelly 12 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
3795354003
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Owner Comments
Combat Kelly #12 is referenced in Geoffrey Wagner’s “Parade of Pleasure” (POP) with a black and white illustration of the cover and a color illustration of a page from one of the interior stories.
One of Wagner’s topics in the POP is the distorted ways that American military forces and their communist enemies are presented in war comics. He uses Combat Kelly #12 as one example. Wagner’s caption under the black and white illustration of the cover of Combat Kelly #12 reads “The American infantryman in Korea, as seen by Combat Kelly.” On the adjoining page he has a full-page color illustration from an interior story contained in Combat Kelly #12.
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