Lee Shigeta

Bronze Age war comics had a gritty, ensemble energy all their own, and Lee Shigeta stepped onto that battlefield in 1975 courtesy of Archie Goodwin and Al McWilliams in Seaboard's Savage Combat Tales — a title that wore its rough-and-tumble spirit right in its name. Shigeta shares those combat-scarred pages with a memorable cast of hard-edged characters: Turk Ankrum, Duke Ripley, Ice Marko, and Sgt. Ben Stryker, the kind of company that signals this book meant serious business. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Shigeta is a genuine rarity of the era — a character for the dedicated Bronze Age hunter who loves unearthing the overlooked corners of comics history that the big two never told.