Real Life Comics #20

In September 1942, Colonel Merrill volunteers to lead a specialized jungle-fighting unit through the treacherous terrain of Burma to help cut off Japanese supply routes and support Chinese forces. After intensive training in Guatemala and India—from survival tactics to hand-to-hand combat—Merrill's Marauders are deployed in February 1944 to trap nearly 3,000 Japanese soldiers caught between allied positions in the Hukawng Valley. The unit executes a flanking attack on the Nambyu River, striking the Japanese from an unexpected angle while Chinese forces hold the line.

Over a lifetime spanning ninety transformative years, General James Edward Oglethorpe witnesses the decline of Ottoman power in Europe and England's rise as a colonial force—first as a young soldier fighting alongside Prince Eugene against the Turks, then as a visionary who recognizes that human freedom cannot be won by the sword alone. Elected to Parliament, he champions a bold idea: establish a colony in the New World where persecuted debtors, religious minorities, and the downtrodden can build a society founded on liberty and equality. In 1733, Oglethorpe ventures to Georgia and lays out Savannah as a model city, welcoming the industrious and faithful of every nation and creed to create something unprecedented—a beacon of democratic possibility that will endure through revolution and beyond.

During the fierce battles near Krivoi Rog, a Soviet Army typist named Manshuka Mametova volunteers for frontline duty, determined to contribute to the fight against the Nazi advance. When an entire German regiment launches a desperate assault on a Russian outpost, Manshuka finds herself facing overwhelming odds—and discovers she's willing to do whatever it takes to hold the line. This true account captures the grit and sacrifice of the soldiers defending the Soviet Union during World War II.

Joseph Pulitzer arrived in America as a penniless Hungarian immigrant with weak eyes and delicate hands, but through sheer determination and a passion for uncovering truth, he rose from seaman to soldier to reporter—eventually becoming owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. Working himself to exhaustion pursuing journalistic integrity and exposing corruption, Pulitzer built a newspaper empire that would later establish the prestigious prizes bearing his name, all while battling the physical toll his relentless drive exacted on his health.

Born into slavery aboard a Templar galley in 1275, Roger Di Flor clawed his way up through cunning and violence, transforming himself from a galley slave into an admiral and eventually a powerful general courting the favor of Emperor Andronicus. As his ambition swells and he consolidates power across Asia Minor, Roger grows ever bolder—but his ruthless climb toward absolute dominion draws him closer to a reckoning he doesn't see coming. This four-page biography traces one of history's most turbulent adventurers from bondage to the brink of empire, where fortune and cruelty collide.

Beyond the established rules of combat, some soldiers possess an instinctive gift for seizing and holding the initiative—and Technical Sergeant Charles Kelly proved to be exactly that kind of soldier. Faced with a Nazi advance near Altavilla during the Allied drive from Salerno, Kelly launches a desperate single-handed stand against overwhelming odds, drawing on every weapon in the arsenal and his own resourcefulness to hold the line. This is the true story of how one soldier's courage and quick thinking earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Antonio Jose De Sucre begins as a young idealist inspired by Simón Bolívar's fight for South American independence, joining the cause as a junior officer and pledging himself to a "war to the death" against Spanish rule. Over sixteen years of campaigns—from early skirmishes through his decisive victories at Pichincha, Lake Reyes, and finally Ayacucho—Sucre proves himself an exceptional military strategist, leading outnumbered patriot forces to triumph against imperial Spain. This biographical account traces his rise from a teenage believer in freedom to a leader whose courage and conviction helped liberate an entire continent.