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Issue Details

Issue #103
Published April 1972
Cover Price $0.20
Pages 36
Editing Sal Gentile
Notes Viet Nam and Korean War cover. Cover images taken from inside stories.

Cover Details - "Charley Trap"

Characters Sgt "Shotgun" Harker; Pvt "Chicken" Smith
Genre war
Pencils Jack Keller; ?
Inks Jack Keller; ?
Notes Viet Nam and Korean War cover. Cover images taken from inside stories.

7 page story "The Last Days"

Characters Marine Lt. Mike Langley; Signalman 1C Neal Winters
Synopsis Lt. Mike Langley saves a hospital ship from a kamikaze attack.
Genre war
Pencils Jack Keller [as J.K.]
Inks Jack Keller [as J.K.]
Notes WWII story.
Reprinted In Fightin' Marines (Charlton 1955 series) #137 (one panel used as the cover with some minor alterations); In Fightin' Marines (Charlton, 1955 series) #137; in Brothers in Battle (Avalon, 2001 series) #1.

8 page Shotgun Harker story "The Charley Trap!"

Characters Sgt "Shotgun" Harker; Pvt "Chicken" Smith; Toledo
Synopsis Shotgun Harker is in a chopper that is shot down. After being rescued he returns to the area to get revenge on the Viet Cong that shot him down.
Genre war
Pencils Jack Keller [as J.K.]
Inks Jack Keller [as J.K.]
Notes Viet Nam story.

1 page Sam Spolo text story "Lost Face"

Characters Sam Spolo [the Spy Smasher]
Genre spy
Letters typeset
Notes Includes circulation figures. Average copies last 12 months: 205,000

8 page story "Listen Ta Me, Boot"

Characters Lt. Mike Krinsky; PFC. Walt Turner; Sgt. Romano; Cpl. Dolman; T/Sgt. Jim Root; Dzumek
Synopsis PFC. Walt Turner, new to Korea, helps turn Cpl. Dolman back into a good marine.
Genre war
Notes Korean War story.
Reprinted In Fightin' Marines (Charlton, 1955 series) #163