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Fightin' Marines #6

Jun 1952 · St. John · 0.10 USD
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An anthology of Korean War action stories featuring Marines in combat. "Canteen Kate in 'Ready...Aim...Fire!'" shows Kate managing a garden at a military base while soldiers admire her flowers and discuss an upcoming operation. The final visible story depicts Marines attempting a dangerous sabotage mission against enemy forces, involving the placement of explosives on a train and pitched combat in jungle terrain, with characters named Steve, Tony, Monte, Leatherneck Jack, and Sarge engaging enemy troops in a race against time.

Contains 5 stories
Operation Rescue
8 pp

Sergeant "Tripoli" Shores and his two Marines—Arkansan and Duck Sing—parachute into enemy territory on a dangerous rescue mission to locate and extract Kim Roo, a secret operative held captive by Communist forces. With quick thinking and the help of a local farmer, the trio must navigate through enemy patrols, infiltrate a prison transport, and fight their way back to friendly lines before the enemy closes in. It's a race against time filled with narrow escapes and improvisation that tests every ounce of Shores' legendary ingenuity.

Ready, Aim, Fire!
6 pp

Canteen Kate tries to help Private Al get back in the General's good graces by retrieving weed-killer from the supply depot—but a mix-up with a requisitioned refrigerator and some creative misdirection leads to a chaotic mishap in the General's prized garden. With plenty of slapstick hijinks and military red tape, this 1952 adventure proves that good intentions don't always lead to good results.

Express to Extinction
6 pp

Two feuding Marine corporals—Steve Farrell and Tony Wright—are sent on a dangerous mission to destroy a Korean troop train hidden on a rail siding, forced to work together despite their bitter rivalry. When enemy fire wounds Tony before they reach their target, Steve must improvise a daring plan to stop the locomotive before it evacuates enemy troops, testing whether these rivals can truly become teammates.

Major Error
5 pp

Private Thistlewait dreams of a romantic pickup duty when he's ordered to fetch a WAC officer named Major Smythe from the station—but his hopes come crashing down when he discovers the Major is a formidable older woman, not the beauty he'd imagined. Just when he thinks his ordeal is over, the Sergeant delivers news that turns his narrow escape into an even worse assignment: he's been voluntold to escort Major Smythe's sister to the post dance that evening.

Strategy for Suicide
7 pp · War

Leatherneck Jack and his squad of Marines land under cover of smoke to assault an enemy fort, but their reconnaissance mission turns into a desperate race against time when they discover the main gun battery threatening U.S. naval operations. Using a captured enemy soldier to guide them through the fort's tunnels, the Marines fight their way to the command post and rig the magazine to blow—then must scramble to escape before the entire installation detonates. With enemy reinforcements paddling in from the mainland and the clock ticking down, it becomes a brutal question of whether Jack and his men can reach safety before the blast brings the whole structure down around them.

ComicBooks.com Value

Our Model is In Beta
Raw (Good) $58
CGC 9.2 · 1 in census $1,143*
CGC 9.0 · 1 in census $793*
CGC 8.5 none in existence
CGC 8.0 · 1 in census $434*
CGC 7.5 · 1 in census $349*
CGC 7.0 · 4 in census $290*
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CGC 6.5 · 2 in census $243*
CGC 6.0 · 2 in census $210*
CGC 5.5 · 2 in census $177*
CGC 5.0 · 4 in census $168*
CGC 4.5 · 2 in census $143
CGC 4.0 · 1 in census $125*
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Full credits

cover pencils Matt Baker

Reprints

Reprinted in Fightin' Marines #16 (1955), The Lost Art of Matt Baker #1 (2013), Canteen Kate #[nn] (2013)

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