G.I. Combat #136
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Kill Now - Pay Later," a chilling cycle of violence unfolds across the battlefield, where fate seems to favor the trigger finger—until it doesn’t. Written by Howard Liss and illustrated by Fred Ray, this gripping tale from G.I. Combat #136 (1969) follows two soldiers whose fates are bound by a single, cursed gun. The cover, by Joe Kubert, captures the grim tension of war’s unpredictable toll.
In "Kill Now - Pay Later," the clash of two men shaped by loss unfolds when a German U-Boat commander, haunted by a shared past with Jeb Stuart, finds himself facing the Haunted Tank on a war-torn beach. The weight of history and the fury of war collide as their paths cross in a battle that feels as much personal as it is military.
In "The 13th Bullet," a Confederate soldier's rifle fails him on the 13th shot—after claiming twelve Union lives—only to be felled moments later by a Union soldier who takes up the cursed gun. The same fate echoes as the Union soldier fires twelve rounds with deadly precision, but the 13th bullet brings no victory, only the weight of repetition.
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Reprinted in Bat Lash #4 (1971), Showcase Presents: Haunted Tank #2 (2008)
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