Showing posts with label Army & Navy Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Army & Navy Comics. Show all posts

05 October 2017

Then Came Five...

...
The 5th issue of Army & Navy Comics arrived on the stands with no warning on the cover of what was contained within...


Leafing through, it might seem the same as the previous four issues...





...and Private Rook returned for what is, as far as i know, his final appearance...


Of course, Private Rook's adventures were both insane and degradingly mocking of the wartime enemy, as usual...


There were a few joke pages and the obligatory text feature, but tucked in the middle were six pages of Odd (especially for a book aimed at members of the Armed Services) that would take over the title on the following month, and for most of the next four years:

(Yes, that's The Shadow. No, that's not Bird Person.
I'm going to pretend that's Kent Nelson, sans helmet, hanging next to Mandrake*...)

And then things got weirder...

all pages from Army & Navy Comics #5 (1942)



*(I think that's actually SuperMagician, not Mandrake, but he looks so close...
more importantly "That's Not Bird Person" is actually DOC SAVAGE! (Really))

04 October 2017

Oh! It's Later.

Didn't think i meant "later today" when i said we'd come back to look at Private Rook later, didja?
Here's his tale from Army & Navy Comics #4 (the same issue from which we pulled the two earlier stories from this morning's post.) Unfortunately, neither i nor the Grand Comics Database have any clue who wrote or drew this strip, or those presented this morning.


the Odd adventures of Private Rook from Army & Navy Comics #4 (1942)