Sgt. fury and his howling commandos 1
Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos #1 - 1st Appearance Sgt Fury, Corporal Dum Dum Dugan, The Howlers, Captain "Happy Sam" Sawyer - Lower to Mid Grade! - Key Book!!! - Softcover - First edition - (1963/1972) Check your national and local postal services. VERY IMPORTANT!!! If you win an auction track the package as soon as it has been send!! Please realize that due to Corona Virus there can be serious delays in delivery. Then you will only be charged shipping costs once Art © Marvel Comics.Wait with paying until you are finished with bidding. Purchase Marvel Comics Merchandise Online Today in Toons: Every day's an anniversary!
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Or it may be that there simply isn't any room in today's comic book market for an ongoing series about soldiers in World War II.īACK to Don Markstein's Toonopedia Home Page Despite typical comic book explanations for his slow aging, there was no use rubbing the readers' noses in the "fact" that a man as active as Colonel Fury the government agent was around so long ago. Maybe that has something to do with why it was eventually dropped. By that time, World War II was about twice as far in the past as it had been when Fury started. Savage & His Leatherneck Raiders came and went. Nonetheless, Fury was the most successful war comic the company ever published, lasting until 1981 while titles like Combat Kelly, War Is Hell and even the obvious attempted tie-in Capt. They were followed by many different creative teams, as Marvel treated it like a second-string title, generally assigning it to whoever was available. Fury & His Howling Commandos only a little over a year. But while this was going on in what was then the present, Fury's adventures as a World War II sergeant continued. Always on top of the trends, Marvel converted the older version of him into an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., one of those secret yet flamboyant initialized agencies that were so popular in the mid-1960s (cf. That was Fury's only "present day" appearance as his old self, the army guy slowly rising through the ranks. An older Fury, by then a colonel, helped The Fantastic Four defeat a Hitler-like villain in that group's 21st issue (December, 1963). Fantastic), who was known by Fantastic Four readers to have seen combat in World War II, turned up in the third issue, and Captain America himself was plastered all over the cover of #13 (December, 1964). Obviously, most started out as stereotypes, but they developed into individuals soon enough.Īnother aspect of that style was frequent use of crossovers. Junior was killed off early on, and replaced by Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton, a bumbershoot-wielding Englishman.
The Howlers were "Dum Dum" Dugan (a hot-tempered, red-headed Irishman), Izzy Cohen (possibly the first action hero in comic books that was definitely Jewish), "Reb" Ralston (an easygoing guy from Kentucky), Dino Manelli (of Italian ancestry, and reminiscent of actor Dean Martin), "Junior" Juniper (an Ivy League college man, and no relation), Gabe Jones (a black man, anachronistically placed in a mostly white unit), and of course, gruff, dedicated, all-American Nick Fury himself. It was certainly done in the Lee/Kirby style, with lots more light-hearted banter on the quiet pages than was customary in that grim genre, and a diverse mix of appealing characters. Most comics historians think only the war books Harvey Kurtzman edited for EC Comics really fit that description, but maybe there was something to it. Still, fans of Thor and The Fantastic Four followed Lee and Kirby to the new title, encouraged by its slogan, "The war mag for people who hate war mags". But this one had much in common with its predecessors - lots of bullet dodging, grenade lobbing, one-armed machine gunning and that sort of stuff. Marvel wasn't publishing any series set in World War II when (with a cover date of May, 1963) Fury debuted, tho they'd done dozens back in the 1950s. Reportedly, it was launched just to prove to Marvel Comics publisher Martin Goodman that the Lee/Kirby style could succeed in any genre. Fury & His Howling Commandos was their first and only collaboration on a war comic. Half-dozen superheroes, and enough monsters with goofy names to populate a Japanese island. Please contribute to its necessary financial support.īy 1963, the legendary team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had launched a western, at least a If this site is enjoyable or useful to you, FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS Medium: Comic booksĬreators: Stan Lee (writer) and Jack Kirby (artist)