G-I in Battle

    (Four Star, 1952-1953)
™ and © Four Star Publications

War comics from the early 1950s generally trade in a pretty narrow range, content-wise. At best, they’re recycled stories of glory and valor from the freshly won World War II. At worst, they’re hysterical, bloodthirsty, and ideologically shrill anticommunist propaganda based on the then-current Korean conflict. G-I In Battle, a quick-and-dirty little war book from Ajax Publishing, probes the bottom reaches of the low register, combining crude racism (“Hurry up! We’ll have the whole gook army on us in no time”) as a central plot device with artwork that looks as if it were drawn with an entrenchment tool. G-I in Battle is remarkably bad stuff even for a period and a genre noted for low standards.
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