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Category: Blazing Combat

  • Blazing Combat (1965) #4

    Blazing Combat (1965) #4

    Goodwin and company recover for the fourth–and tragically final–issue of Blazing Combat. The issue opens with Goodwin returning to, if not controversial, then uncomfortable topics–he and Gene Colan (Colan’s art this issue is far better than his already good art in the previous one) have a depressingly real story about American racism. It might be…

  • Blazing Combat (1965) #3

    Blazing Combat (1965) #3

    There’s a lot of great art this issue… but it seems like Goodwin was getting worn out. There really aren’t any stories with any bite–even the WWII one with the marine taking gold teeth from every corpse he finds. The opening story, credited to Joe Orlando but apparently pencilled by Jerry Grandenetti, is an indistinct…

  • Blazing Combat 4 (July 1966)

    Goodwin and company recover for the fourth–and tragically final–issue of Blazing Combat. The issue opens with Goodwin returning to, if not controversial, then uncomfortable topics–he and Gene Colan (Colan’s art this issue is far better than his already good art in the previous one) have a depressingly real story about American racism. It might be…

  • Blazing Combat 3 (April 1966)

    There’s a lot of great art this issue… but it seems like Goodwin was getting worn out. There really aren’t any stories with any bite–even the WWII one with the marine taking gold teeth from every corpse he finds. The opening story, credited to Joe Orlando but apparently pencilled by Jerry Grandenetti, is an indistinct…

  • Blazing Combat (1965) #2

    Blazing Combat (1965) #2

    I can’t believe it, Goodwin tells a joke. In fact, he sets up his entire Revolutionary War story for a joke. I suppose the issue kind of needs it, since he opens with this famous Vietnam story, “Landscape,” the best illustrated of the three Joe Orlando stories this issue. “Landscape” is about a South Vietnamese…

  • Blazing Combat 2 (January 1966)

    I can’t believe it, Goodwin tells a joke. In fact, he sets up his entire Revolutionary War story for a joke. I suppose the issue kind of needs it, since he opens with this famous Vietnam story, “Landscape,” the best illustrated of the three Joe Orlando stories this issue. “Landscape” is about a South Vietnamese…

  • Blazing Combat (1965) #1

    Blazing Combat (1965) #1

    In seven stories–from the Revolutionary War to the burgeoning Vietnam conflict–there isn’t a single moment of humor. Goodwin doesn’t give the reader a single moment to forget he or she is reading a war comic. There’s so little humor, it’s got to be intentional. If Goodwin had just been writing loose, someone would make a…

  • Blazing Combat 1 (October 1965)

    In seven stories–from the Revolutionary War to the burgeoning Vietnam conflict–there isn’t a single moment of humor. Goodwin doesn’t give the reader a single moment to forget he or she is reading a war comic. There’s so little humor, it’s got to be intentional. If Goodwin had just been writing loose, someone would make a…