With the Marines on the Battlefronts of the World #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis is an anthology of war stories featuring Marines in combat. "Kangaroo Court" depicts soldiers pressed into service as guards at a POW camp in Monty, Japan, who find themselves overwhelmed during a mass escape attempt and must make difficult decisions under threat from the prisoners. "Marine Saves White Horse Hill" follows Private Monty Hall on the Chowan Front near Tokyo, where circumstances force him to become a hero when he must hold a strategic position. A backup story depicts two Marines reading about the Trojan Horse and devising a plan to build a wooden horse to infiltrate an enemy town and launch a surprise attack on hostile forces within.
When Marines holding Sky Island discover that Cpl. Hank Garrett has vanished near a mysterious yellow idol, they chalk it up to local curse—until the statue itself starts winking at guards and pinpointing their positions to enemy artillery. Monty, Tex, and Canarsie must uncover whether the idol is truly man-eating or if something far more dangerous is hiding behind the legend.
When Tex is grabbed by rioting prisoners during a chaotic P.O.W. camp uprising, fellow Marines Monty and Canarsie must navigate a dangerous mock trial—a "kangaroo court" orchestrated by the ruthless Communist commander Yi Ling—to save their buddy before dawn. With help from an unlikely ally among the prisoners, the two Marines find themselves caught between a brutal power play and their own instinct to act, racing against time in a camp where ideology and violence have become the real weapons.
Two Marines cooking up an audacious scheme devise a "Trojan camel" to sneak past hostile hillmen blocking their unit's advance through a narrow valley—but their clever history lesson goes hilariously sideways when their wooden creation ends up in the wrong place entirely. What started as a shot at a trip home becomes an unexpected detour that neither Spike nor Bat saw coming.
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Reprinted in Soldier and Marine Comics #11 (1954), Tell It to the Marines #2 (1955), Monty Hall #3 (1955), Fightin' Army #16 (1956), Battle Stations #7 (1959), Battle Stories #17 (1964)
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