Designed for Delinquency
Parade of Pleasure
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Combat Kelly 11 Universal
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Grade:
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8.5
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1971262004
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Owner:
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GAM
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SET DETAILS
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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