Issue Details

Issue	#6
Published	December 1951
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	?
Notes	Cover credits from http://www.normansaunders.com/comiclist.html. Indicia states "published monthly by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company".

Cover Details - "Korean Family Man"

Characters	Joe Burch
Genre	War
Pencils	Norman Saunders (painting)
Inks	Norman Saunders (painting)
Colors	Norman Saunders (painting)
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Cover credits from http://www.normansaunders.com/comiclist.html. Indicia states "published monthly by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company".

1 page Army Facts filler "A kite used by the army..."

Synopsis	Six facts about armies (facts on kites, land mines, howitzers, tanks, and fuel) and the indicia.
Genre	Fact

8 page G.I. Joe story "It's a Foot Soldier's Job!"

Characters	Joe Burch; Sergeant Mulvaney; Sam Daily
Synopsis	Sam Daily, a new war correspondent, learns what it is really like to be at war.
Genre	War

7 page G.I. Joe story "Korean Family Man"

Characters	Joe Burch
Synopsis	Joe "adopts" a puppy and a young Korean boy.
Genre	War

6 page Buddies story "Frankie of the Pump!"

Characters	Francois de la Salle; Henshaw
Synopsis	Frankie, the cook for Baker Company, quits after a new guy, Henshaw, insults his cooking because it doesn't taste like rations.
Genre	War

2 page text story "Air Force Blues"

Genre	War
Letters	Typeset

8 page G.I. Joe story "23 Notches for Zeb!"

Characters	Joe Burch; Zeb
Synopsis	Zeb receives news from home that his father is ill.
Genre	War

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Beanbags"

Synopsis

Ad for Beanbags #1 from Ziff-Davis. Includes a line-drawing of the cover (final cover was painted).

6 page The Yardbirds story "Shell Shocked"

Characters	Whitey Hicks; Windy; Basil Q. Murgatrod
Synopsis	Whitey and Windy tour Basil Murgatrod, the Mayor of Flatville, around the base and almost get all of them killed.
Genre	War; Humor
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo ?
Inks	Dan DeCarlo ?
Notes	Dan DeCarlo ? credit from Jerry Bails' Who's Who and comparison to his later work at Archie.

7 page G.I. Joe story "The Corporal's Tree"

Characters	Joe Burch; Tony Carpuccio
Synopsis	Corporal Carpuccio strives to protect a tree from the enemy and from his own fellow soldiers.
Genre	War

1 page story "Fast Dance"

Synopsis	A soldier trudges in from the front to go to a dance, but quickly has to go back.
Genre	Humor
Script	Wally Littman [as Littman]
Pencils	Wally Littman [as Littman]
Inks	Wally Littman [as Littman]
Letters	Wally Littman [as Littman]

1 page Our Army and its Weapons filler "The Garand Rifle"

Synopsis	Facts about the Garand Rifle.
Genre	Fact
Pencils	Paul Parker [as Parker]
Inks	Paul Parker [as Parker]
Notes	On inside back cover.

1 page (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix* "Soldiers marching up a hill"

Synopsis	Back cover of comic. Heavily inked drawing of soldiers walking up a hill into the sunset.
Genre	War