Soldier Comics #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAn anthology of military-themed stories featuring American soldiers fighting on various battlefronts. One story follows Captain McQueen conducting a helicopter rescue mission to retrieve a wounded soldier from a minefield while fending off red guerrillas. Another tale tells of Foote, a soldier captured by Communists, who is distinguished by his unusually large feet—a characteristic that ironically becomes an asset rather than a handicap as he pursues a military career.
When enemy forces close in on a forward command post near Seoul, Corporal Frank Tydings volunteers to stay behind and man the radio—a decision that puts him in the crosshairs when the Reds overrun his position. Forced to repair the transmitter under threat of death, Tydings discovers the enemy's true strategy and seizes his chance to relay crucial intelligence that turns the tide of battle. His quick thinking and courage become the key to a devastating counterattack that saves his unit from annihilation.
Captain Jerry McQueen of the X Air Rescue Squadron faces the demanding realities of helicopter rescue operations during the Korean War, where his skill and courage are tested by a dangerous wire-laying mission that turns into a firefight with enemy guerrillas. When a wounded sergeant's condition becomes critical and evacuation calls mount, McQueen finds himself racing against the clock to save lives under intense pressure. This story chronicles the resourcefulness and bravery demanded of the men who pilot these revolutionary flying machines in the brutal skies over Korea.
A soldier with the biggest feet in the 8th Army ends up barefoot in Korea when Chinese prisoners of war mistake his unusual physique for a sign of rank and decide surrender is safer than facing their furious colonel. General Foote's outsized appendages become his unlikely weapon as he herds a dozen enemy combatants back to U.S. lines—and makes one frustrated war correspondent's career in the process. It's a tall tale about how sometimes your greatest handicap becomes your greatest asset.
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Reprinted in Soldier Comics #1 (1952), Blazing Combat: Vietnam and Korea #2 (1993)
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