comicbooks.com Join Free
Home › Battle Cry › #9 › Read

★ comicbooks.com Reading Room

Battle Cry #9 (1953)

Stanley Morse · 1953 · 36 pages

Free to read · restored edition by comicbooks.com · Issue details →

Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 1 of 36
1 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 2 of 36
2 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 3 of 36
3 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 4 of 36
4 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 5 of 36
5 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 6 of 36
6 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 7 of 36
7 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 8 of 36
8 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 9 of 36
9 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 10 of 36
10 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 11 of 36
11 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 12 of 36
12 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 13 of 36
13 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 14 of 36
14 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 15 of 36
15 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 16 of 36
16 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 17 of 36
17 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 18 of 36
18 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 19 of 36
19 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 20 of 36
20 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 21 of 36
21 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 22 of 36
22 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 23 of 36
23 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 24 of 36
24 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 25 of 36
25 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 26 of 36
26 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 27 of 36
27 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 28 of 36
28 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 29 of 36
29 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 30 of 36
30 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 31 of 36
31 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 32 of 36
32 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 33 of 36
33 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 34 of 36
34 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 35 of 36
35 / 36
Battle Cry #9 (1953) — page 36 of 36
36 / 36
ContinueBattle Cry #10 →
Contains 5 stories
Private, Do Not Disturb
6 pp · war

Pfc. Ike returns from a grueling two-day scouting mission in Korea just as a female newspaper correspondent, Anne Calhoon, arrives at camp—and finds himself assigned to stand guard outside her tent with strict orders to keep her undisturbed. When enemy infiltrators close in on the tent that night, Ike faces the challenge of stopping them without waking his charge, leading to a battle of wits (and fists) against impossible odds. By morning, his resourcefulness has saved the day, though sleep deprivation catches up with him in the most unexpected way.

7 Seconds to Hell
4 pp · war

During basic training, soldier Trask freezes while handling a live grenade on the practice range, a moment of panic that costs his instructor his life—a tragedy that haunts him and his unit for months. When Trask finally faces combat in Korea, he's given a chance to prove himself under fire, but the weight of that old mistake threatens to repeat itself at the worst possible moment. This is a stark, unflinching portrait of how a single failure can define a soldier, and what it takes—or costs—to move beyond it.

Carbine
6 pp · war

A young soldier named Will Adler is left behind to cover his patrol's rear during a night operation in Korea, armed with his carbine and a handful of ammunition—but when eight enemy soldiers emerge from no man's land, he's forced to rely on cunning and desperation to survive. As dawn breaks and the odds keep shifting, Adler must decide what his rifle can and cannot do in a fight that becomes far more personal than he bargained for. In four cold hours, a boy discovers what it takes to make it through a war.

A G.I.'s Equipment
5 pp · war

When Pvt. Eddie Bailey ships out to Korea, a grizzled sergeant's lessons about three essential pieces of equipment—his steel helmet, his M-1 rifle, and his dog tags—suddenly become a matter of survival. Over eighteen weeks of stateside training and his first brutal days in combat, Eddie learns why a soldier's gear isn't just regulation: it's what keeps him alive when the real fighting begins. "A G.I.'s Equipment" shows how the basics that once felt like a burden become a draftee's only defense.

A Blanket for Angie!
5 pp · war

Pvt. Angie Lange, a Southern soldier unaccustomed to Korea's brutal cold, desperately seeks an extra blanket to stay warm—his condition growing so dire that it threatens his combat effectiveness. When his unit is ordered to retake a strategic hill from the enemy, Angie sees a chance to find the blanket he needs, driving himself forward through the fierce assault. The price of that desperate climb reveals itself in a haunting final moment that underscores the true cost of war.

Restored edition © comicbooks.com. Our digitization, remastering, and presentation are our own work.

See something wrong with this issue? Report it.