Star Spangled War Stories #95
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDC's war anthology takes a thrillingly prehistoric turn in this 1961 issue, as the cover — penciled by Ross Andru and inked by Mike Esposito — depicts a massive winged reptile clutching a U.S. military transport plane in its claws while paratroopers descend helplessly through the chaos around it. The cover copy promises "Paratroopers Battle Winged Giants" in the story "Guinea Pig Patrol!," and that image of a soldier firing point-blank at the creature while dangling from his parachute lines delivers on every word of that promise. A fine slice of DC's early-'60s "war meets the impossible" storytelling, with interior work by writer Bob Haney and artist/inker Jack Abel.
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A new "tinfish tender" on a sub is assigned torpedoes 1 and 2. He waits for the order as battle with a Japanese cruiser rages above and below. But when he fires his torps, the first one circles and damages the sub's rudder, and the second bumps along the hull. Feeling it's his fault, the sailor dons frogman gear and guides the torp through depth charges and shellfire to sink the Japanese cruiser. The sub's "secret weapon" is a "human torpedo"!
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