Our Fighting Forces #138 (DC)
Various (w) & (a), Joe Kubert (cover)
Grabbed an unread back issue at random whilst my cake was in the oven this afternoon (yeah really, cooling as I type) which turned out to bis little gem I purchased a while back. This comic was part of a whole range of war comics produced by DC at the time and from the days when various genres including horror, mystery and love anthologies were still on the stands.
The Losers were the main feature in this period a "ragbag group of DC characters like Captain Storm (presumed dead in this issue), Johnny Cloud an air ace along with Gunner and Sarge. Not sure of the origins of the last two maybe a more knowledgeable reader can enlighten me!
Talking of enlightenment one reader complained in his letter about not just the "death" of captain Storm but the fact (shock horror) he had been replaced by ...woman! This was the seventies but even so it should have been common knowledge that women played a brave an active role across all theatres of war, especially in occupied Europe.
Now I'm not particularly "woke" as the young generation refer to these days but women have played major roles throughout history in military affairs and every other field of human endeavour.
As for the main story pretty average set in the North Sea during the Blitz looking for a mystery raider. The rest of the book is mildly entertaining and the last story very "American" for want of a better expression.
This comic is really for the fans of the genre. I bought it mainly because of the Joe Kubert cover. I love his art.
Oh and later issues show Capt Storm seemed to get better!
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