GI Joe (1951 Ziff Davis) 7

Add to cart GD 2.0 $18.00 View scan 1/2" spine split from the top. Water damage.

Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Dan De Carlo, George Tuska, Bob Powell, Paul S. Newman, Frank Giacoia, Rudy Lapick and Gerald McCann. Neither a tie-in with the later toy line/cartoon nor a grim war comic, this first-gen GI Joe focused on lighthearted tales of military life. The Yardbirds, featuring Pvts. Windy and Whitey, was straight-up comedy of the Beetle Bailey/Sad Sack variety. Joe and his company rescue a bomber pilot who's traumatized after losing every soldier on his mission, including his own brother. Mechanical mayhem ensues when Pvts. Windy and Whitey are assigned as drivers for a colonel, in a story by future Archie legend Dan De Carlo. A children's illustrator with Baker Company borrows from his own book on the battlefield, in an offbeat story combining a page of funny-animal art with traditional combat images. Plus the life of a combat photographer, and a story with art by future Marvel legend George Tuska. Army Chuckles; Saga of a B-26; The Ninety-Day Wonder; The Patients Cured The Nurse; The Scribblers First Mission; Buddies: The Rout at Sugar Creek; Kids Dream; The Yardbirds: The Jumping Jeep; Combat Photographer. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.