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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Combat Kelly
Issue: 43
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: June 1957
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Stan Lee

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Combat Kelly #43
Owner: steppenwolfscomics

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Combat Kelly
Pages:1
Pencils:Joe Maneely (signed)
Inks:Joe Maneely (signed)
Colors:Stan Goldberg


Story Title: Red Assault on Hill 313! - comic story
Features:Combat Kelly
Pages:5
Pencils:Dave Berg (signed)
Inks:Dave Berg ?
Characters:Combat Kelly; Lieutenant Banner; Comrade Major (Red Chinese); Cookie Novak
Synopsis:Kelly must take hill 313 from the Reds. After avoiding boulders being rolled down the hill, Kelly and Lieutenant Banner and the men take hill 313. Red reinforcements come to retake the hill but Cookie had found a spring when digging his foxhole and Kelly uses the water to make the hill a mudslide, preventing the Reds from taking it back.


Story Title: The Uses of the Past - text story
Pages:1.66
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Trap! - comic story
Features:Combat Kelly
Pages:5
Pencils:Dave Berg (signed)
Inks:Dave Berg ?
Characters:Combat Kelly (as a private); Captain Thorn; Cookie Novak; unnamed Japanese Major
Synopsis:Flashback story of Kelly and the Baker Company during World War II fighting on a Japanese atoll. Kelly and Cookie capture Japanese miniature tanks. The Japanese have a remote control for the tanks guns and plan to recapture them after making them not work. Kelly outwits them by rigging the tanks to blow up when retaken and destroys the Japanese camp.


Story Title: Lost in No Man's Land! - comic story
Features:True War Stories that Made History...Told By Combat Kelly
Pages:4
Pencils:Dave Berg (signed)
Inks:Dave Berg ?
Characters:Combat Kelly (only as intro narrator); amnesiac soldier; unnamed German Captain: unnamed American Captain; unnamed American Sergeant
Synopsis:An amnesiac soldier in American uniform is wandering the battlefields of World War I. He encounters a German artillery outfit and is shot at and begins shooting back. He single handedly destroys the German's big gun, allowing the Americans to advance. When approached by the American Sergeant he is knocked unconscious by him. When questioned by his Captain, the Sergeant replied that he asked for his name rank and serial number, the hero responded in German. He was a German spy sent to destroy the American gun but had amnesia due to an exploding shell.


Story Title: The Capture of Captain Thorn! - comic story
Features:Cookie Novak
Pages:4
Pencils:Chuck Miller
Inks:Chuck Miller ?
Characters:Cookie Novak; the three Bacardi Brothers; unnamed Sergeant; Comrade Major; Captain Thorn
Synopsis:Captain Thorn has been captured and Cookie and the Sergeant have to rescue him. They find out he is on the second floor of a building in the Red Interrogation Camp. The Bacardi Brothers - a former circus act of acrobats - volunteer to get Captain Thorn out. Climbing on top of each other they rescue Captain Thorn.


Story Title: [ no title ] - statement of ownership
Pages:0.34


Story Title: Run, Doggies...Run! - comic story
Features:Combat Kelly
Pages:5
Pencils:Dave Berg (signed)
Inks:Dave Berg ?
Characters:Combat Kelly; Captain Thorn; Chu Lu; Comrade Major
Synopsis:Combat Kelly and Captain Thorn are approached by a Korean village elder named Chu Lu who asks that they do not destroy the village Temple. Captain Thorn agrees. The Red Chinese have set up their artillery O.P. in the Temple and Baker Company's efforts to take it fail. Since Thorn made a promise not to destroy the sacred shrine, the Americans retreat. Seeing the Americans retreat the Reds come out yelling and celebrating. Unknown to them, not all of Baker Company left and enough remained hidden in the trenches to capture them and the Temple.


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