G.I. Joe #49

Cpl. Reilly jumps at the chance to go into business when a smooth-talking stranger offers him the deed to a diner, only to discover the ramshackle establishment comes with plenty of unexpected challenges—and a handful of locals who know more about its troubled history than he'd like. With Pvt. Alvin Otis and Merlin Mullins as his reluctant partners, Ready-Money Reilly sets out to transform the place into something that'll actually draw a crowd to this sleepy town. It's a scrappy story about entrepreneurship, persistence, and learning the hard way that sometimes the best business idea is the one that was staring you in the face all along.

When a soldier arrives at Elaine Blake's door with a cryptic message from her husband Dick—a man she hasn't heard from in three years—her world is thrown into turmoil. Flashbacks reveal how their whirlwind romance began when Dick, a lonely and embittered young man, first opened up to her at a party, and how they married despite her parents' objections, only for Dick to ship out the very next day. Now Pvt. Joe Burch finds himself caught in the middle of a marriage fractured by silence and doubt, forced to confront truths neither Elaine nor Dick may be ready to face.

Pvt. Dopey faces inspection day under Sgt. McTuff's watchful eye, but when the sergeant tries to show off for the visiting colonel, things don't go quite as planned. A humorous tale of military pride meeting its comeuppance in this 1957 one-pager.

Sgt. Mulvaney is called back to train raw recruits after years away from the job, but a rebellious new arrival named Sparks clashes with him at every turn—until a tragic accident at the rifle range forces both men to reckon with responsibility and consequences. This is a hard look at the weight of command and the cost of lost focus, wrapped in the discipline and danger of basic training.