Team Yankee

In the late 1980s, First Comics adapted David Drake's novel Team Yankee into a six-issue miniseries, bringing the gritty, tactical reality of a Cold War gone hot to the page. Illustrated by Richard Ory and Rod Whigham, the story follows a U.S. tank platoon fighting a desperate conventional war against Soviet forces in Europe, emphasizing the human cost and brutal mechanics of armored combat. This series stands as a key artifact of the military fiction boom in comics, offering a grounded, no-frills portrayal of soldiers and machinery under fire.