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War Stories (2014 Avatar) comic books

  • Issue #1A
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 1A

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Matt Martin. Pulling tales from real conflicts throughout modern history, this series is where a master storyteller brings the horrors of war to life in comics. Ennis travels the timeline to pull some of the most harrowing tales of valor and bloodshed from history's most violent battles with his trademark wit and spot-on dialogue to show the humanity within the inhuman horrors. The first story is Castles in the Sky, a tale of early bomber pilots and their incredibly difficult missions. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #1B
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 1B

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Matt Martin. Pulling tales from real conflicts throughout modern history, this series is where a master storyteller brings the horrors of war to life in comics. Ennis travels the timeline to pull some of the most harrowing tales of valor and bloodshed from history's most violent battles with his trademark wit and spot-on dialogue to show the humanity within the inhuman horrors. The first story is Castles in the Sky, a tale of early bomber pilots and their incredibly difficult missions. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #2A
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 2A

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art by Keith Burns. Cover by Matt Martin. No one captures the horror and misery of war like GARTH ENNIS! The horrors of WW2 bomber pilots faced were so much greater than simply the enemy fire. The mettle of a man gets tested in many ways in a conflict of that scale. Ennis proves time and time again that in battle it isn't the technology or the weapons you wield, but the fire within that leads to the ultimate outcome on the battlefield. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #3A
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 3A

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art by Keith Burns. Cover by Matt Martin. War is horror. And no one knows how to chronicle the bitter and bloody corners of conflict than Garth Ennis. Is this final chapter of the first arc, the brave bomber pilots have to suffer through the worst kind of Hell to carry out their mission. Or die trying. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #4A
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 4A

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. In 1973, the Golan Heights was the home to the most brutal tank warfare in history. As a young nation of Israel faced the imposing forces of the Syrian army, the true mettle of these soldiers would be tested as never before. No one delivers hard hitting stories of war like Garth Ennis. War Stories is the showcase for some of the darkest hours from history's most violent clashes and this month Tomas Aria illustrates part one of Children of Israel. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #4B
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 4B

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art by Keith Burns. Cover by Matt Martin. In 1973, the Golan Heights was the home to the most brutal tank warfare in history. As a young nation of Israel faced the imposing forces of the Syrian army, the true mettle of these soldiers would be tested as never before. No one delivers hard hitting stories of war like Garth Ennis. War Stories is the showcase for some of the darkest hours from history's most violent clashes and this month Tomas Aria illustrates part one of Children of Israel. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #5A
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 5A

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. As a massed Syrian armored assault smashes into the defenders of the Golan Heights, Israeli tank crews struggle against odds of nearly ten to one. No help is coming. Every enemy tank destroyed is instantly replaced. Iron, flesh and will begin to buckle under the ordeal, as Israel's darkest hour unfolds. Garth Ennis and Tomas Aira continue their tale of the Yom Kippur War, in part two of the three part Children Of Israel. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #5B
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 5B

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. As a massed Syrian armored assault smashes into the defenders of the Golan Heights, Israeli tank crews struggle against odds of nearly ten to one. No help is coming. Every enemy tank destroyed is instantly replaced. Iron, flesh and will begin to buckle under the ordeal, as Israel's darkest hour unfolds. Garth Ennis and Tomas Aira continue their tale of the Yom Kippur War, in part two of the three part Children Of Israel. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #5C
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 5C

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art by Tomas Aira. Cover by Matt Martin. As a massed Syrian armored assault smashes into the defenders of the Golan Heights, Israeli tank crews struggle against odds of nearly ten to one. No help is coming. Every enemy tank destroyed is instantly replaced. Iron, flesh and will begin to buckle under the ordeal, as Israel's darkest hour unfolds. Garth Ennis and Tomas Aira continue their tale of the Yom Kippur War, in part two of the three part Children Of Israel. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #6A
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 6A

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. As if defending the Golan Heights against impossible odds wasn't enough, the battered Israeli survivors of the battle now find themselves leading an invasion of Syria. The race to Damascus is on, but even with the tables turned against the Arab coalition the action is still furious and losses heavy. Can there even be winners and losers in a war that seems destined to last forever? Garth Ennis and Toma Aira conclude their tale of 1973's Yom Kippur War, in the final part of Children Of Israel. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #7A
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 7A

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. 'When I was a little girl, my mother told me tales of knights in shining armour, who would save damsels like me from dragons and other monsters...' February 1945: as the Soviet war machine crashes into eastern Germany on a tidal wave of carnage and revenge, a mother and her children join the flood of refugees struggling to stay ahead of the invaders. But the realities of battle are dreadful to behold, and what the little family find waiting for them is deadlier than any mythical dragon. Worse still, the strange figures who appear from the deep woods are far from being knights in shining armour- and in these dark times, the price of salvation may just be too much to bear. A dark tale of conflict and its consequences, by Garth Ennis and Tomas Aira: part one of The Last German Winter. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #8A
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 8A

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. As the full horror of the Soviet advance becomes clear, the little group of German refugees makes its way through the dark woods of East Prussia. Romance flares between our heroine and one of her saviors, but these German war heroes are not all they seem. And the road to salvation is a dangerous one, growing more so with every step along it. 32 pages, full color. MR Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #8B
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 8B

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. As the full horror of the Soviet advance becomes clear, the little group of German refugees makes its way through the dark woods of East Prussia. Romance flares between our heroine and one of her saviors, but these German war heroes are not all they seem. And the road to salvation is a dangerous one, growing more so with every step along it. 32 pages, full color. MR Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #9A
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 9A

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. In the deep, dark woods, Rachel finally learns her saviours' terrible secret, and struggles to come to terms with the sins of her nation. But as the Soviet advance gets nearer and nearer, she may just take the truth she's longed for to her grave- in the third and final episode of The Last German Winter. Part three of 'The Last German Winter' 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #10A
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 10A

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. A brand new story arc begins here! 'T''was England bade our wild geese go, that small nations would be free...' In the Second World War, any Irishman wanting to fight the Nazis had to join the British army- the Republic of Ireland having declared neutrality when the war began. Now, a small unit of Irish soldiers join the advance into Germany- where the going is rough and the enemy nowhere near surrender. And old tensions remain from Ireland's own struggle for independence, as well as the bloody civil war that followed. Part one of Our Wild Geese Go. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #10B
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 10B

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. A brand new story arc begins here! 'T''was England bade our wild geese go, that small nations would be free...' In the Second World War, any Irishman wanting to fight the Nazis had to join the British army- the Republic of Ireland having declared neutrality when the war began. Now, a small unit of Irish soldiers join the advance into Germany- where the going is rough and the enemy nowhere near surrender. And old tensions remain from Ireland's own struggle for independence, as well as the bloody civil war that followed. Part one of Our Wild Geese Go. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #11A
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 11A

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. Things get worse for the little band of Irish soldiers entering Hitler's Third Reich, as the German army turns out to have plenty of fight left in it. A battle in the deep woods leaves our heroes lost and scattered- and that's when one of them decides to settle an old score. Tensions from Ireland's bloody past come to a head, in part two of Our Wild Geese Go. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #11B
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 11B

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. Things get worse for the little band of Irish soldiers entering Hitler's Third Reich, as the German army turns out to have plenty of fight left in it. A battle in the deep woods leaves our heroes lost and scattered- and that's when one of them decides to settle an old score. Tensions from Ireland's bloody past come to a head, in part two of Our Wild Geese Go. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #12A
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 12A

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. Hayes and Aitken's private war is suddenly interrupted, as the gentlemen of Germany's Waffen SS take a hand. Captured and brutally interrogated, the future seems bleak for the two young Irishmen- but the battle about to begin will eclipse their fears and feuds completely. A stand is taken against the greater enemy, in the third and final part of Our Wild Geese Go. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #12B
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 12B

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. Hayes and Aitken's private war is suddenly interrupted, as the gentlemen of Germany's Waffen SS take a hand. Captured and brutally interrogated, the future seems bleak for the two young Irishmen- but the battle about to begin will eclipse their fears and feuds completely. A stand is taken against the greater enemy, in the third and final part of Our Wild Geese Go. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #20A
    War Stories (2014 Avatar) 20A

    Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Tomas Aria. As the night war heats up, the pilots of Vampire Squadron find themselves in the thick of the action despite their many disagreements and divisions. The reason for Squadron-Leader Carver's breakdown becomes all too clear, while Michaels continues to cut a bloody-if inexplicable- swathe through the enemy ranks. And in the midst of war, Terry Proctor finds loveā€¦ Part two of the four-part Vampire Squadron, by Garth Ennis and Tomas Aira. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $3.99.