Brûlant #24
In "Mort pour la patrie," Joe Kubert delivers a gripping wartime tale with a haunting twist: after a crash landing in the French countryside, the fugitive Von Hammer is repeatedly saved by the very families of the pilots he’s killed—each unaware of his identity. With powerful storytelling and striking visuals from Joe Kubert, both in the interior and on the cover, this 1973 issue from Arédit-Artima presents a tense, morally charged encounter where loyalty and memory blur.
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When Von Hammer crash-lands in the French countryside, he is aided three times by the relatives of three French pilots he has shot down, who do not recognize him.
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