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Combat Casey 8
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COMIC DETAILS
Comic Description:
Combat Casey #8 Universal
Grade:
5.0
Page Quality:
OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #:
0274780008
Owner:
GAM
SET DETAILS
Winning Set:
Top POP
Date Added:
3/20/2016
Research:
See CGC's Census Report for this Comic
Owner's Description
Combat Casey #8 is referenced in Geoffrey Wagner’s “Parade of Pleasure” (POP) in the text on page 94.
On page 94, Wagner describes the unrealistic portrayal of war in comic books and provides an example from Combat Casey #8 “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.
Wagner’s example from Combat Casey no 8 comes from the story “Slam into Combat on the Side of Combat Casey” where Casey and his fellow GI Penny do indeed duck in the nick of time.
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