Tag: WWII
Fighting Through Hell With Suicide Commanders!
I find it interesting that in April 1942, cover artists hadn’t yet started emphasizing the Nazi aspect of the Germans. This officer could easily be from WWI instead.
Reckless Commando Raid On Tobruk: We’re Bringing Back A German General
This scene was originally based on the feature Reckless Commando Raid on Tobruk: We’re Bringing Back a German General. It later appeared on the cover of True Action magazine, May 1962, for the feature The Surprise Allied Raid that Captured a Top Afrika Corps General.
These issues also feature WWII Yank And Five Nudist Girls Who Liberated A Danish Village, The Paris Party girl And Her Strange Love Balloon, The Hell-Raising Yank Who Led A Mongol Army, and The Sea Nymph
Lone-Wolf Raider Who Captured Hitler’s TNT-Terror Sub
Hiroshima
Six Survived To Tell What Happened
I find it interesting that, even though this is a serious look at the consequences of atomic warfare, it is basically impossible to tell from the cover art that it takes place in Japan.
Hiroshima tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, covering a period of time immediately prior to and one year after the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. It was originally published in The New Yorker. Although the story was originally scheduled to be published over four issues, the entire August 31, 1946 edition was dedicated to the article. The article and subsequent book are regarded as one of the earliest examples of the New Journalism, in which the story-telling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting.
The Lieutenant Who Took 20,000 POWs
Also featuring Cellblock Women Of The World’s Strangest Penal Island and Secret Sex World of Debutant Call Girls
Tiger’s Toll
Death’s Odds Were Ten To One… A Hundred To One… Yet The Yank Tigers Roared Into The Jap Hell-Trap To Get Their Nazi Prey!
The Fortress Fights Alone
The Wing-Bender From Island X
Live Bait For The Nazi Eagles
Satan With Golden Wings
The Spitfire Yank
Wake of the Wahoo
From Pearl Harbor to her last and fatal voyage — the heroic story of America’s most daring World War II submarine, as told by the only surviving member of her crew
The 15 Maidens In Col. Mito’s Spy House
Execution Of Convoy PQ17
The British Blunder That Lost 500 GI Lives — Tactical error? Sellout? Act of cowardice? There’s never been an explanation for this 24-ship half-a-billion-dollar tragedy…
Also featuring Daytime: Miss Society, Nighttime: “Any Bed” Dolly — The blonde scandal that set the world on its heels and The Great Tramp Army That Held The Hills Of Cyclades — From deep in the Greek mountains they engaged the enemy, a wonderful, straw-hatted, tobacco-chewing, death-dealing hero brigade
Magazines in 1960 saved on printing costs by keeping full-color pages to a minimum, using mostly two-color images for illustrations. In this case, the publisher only wanted to pay for one full-color page for this two-page story spread, so Charles Copeland actually painted this image half color, half duotone.