It’s Memorial Day. Here are comics’ two greatest soldiers.
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Comic-book heroes live forever. Flesh-and-blood soldiers do not. Honor the fallen today.
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Joe Kubert
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Jack Kirby pencils. Chic Stone inks.
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Kubert
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Dick Ayers pencils. Frank Giacoia inks.
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Kubert
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Kirby and Ayers
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Jim Aparo
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Kirby and Stone
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Kubert
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Ayers
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Kubert
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Ayers pencils. John Tartaglione inks.
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Kubert
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Credits and images from the patriotic Grand Comics Database.
June 1, 2017
I always wondered which issue told the story of the giant nickel in the Rock Cave’s trophy room….