During the Silver Age, war anthologies were a mainstay of DC's line of comicbooks. During the Groovy Age, the serialized leads of those mags eventually took over completely. Our
Army at War became
Sgt. Rock;
Star Spangled War Stories became
The Unknown Soldier;
The Haunted Tank ruled
G.I. Combat's pages. During the Summer of 1978, the year of the
DC Explosion, it was decided that DC needed a new war anthology; one that had no continuing features. It's hook would be that the stories would cover every war and the various aspects of them. Editor Paul Levitz was given a week to pull together the contents of
Army at War #1 (July 1978), and a nice package he pulled together, indeed, with talents like Edelman, Michelenie, Rubeny, Ayers, Bingham, Redondo, and of course Joe Kubert. Check it out...
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| Cover by Joe Kubert |
Sadly, the
DC Explosion quickly became the infamous
DC Implosion, with the powers-that-were at Warner (DC's owners, don'tcha know) pulling the plug on twenty (!) of DC's mags.
Army at War was one of 'em. A shame, too. If Levitz could package a quality mag in a week, imagine what he might've done with a monthly or bi-montly schedule...
Never got to see this back in the day. Thanks for posting it so I could finally read it.
ReplyDeleteDeep down I felt DC's new 52 Reboot would eventually become the DC Implosion of the 70's.Time will tell!
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