Our Fighting Forces, #134

Published: November-December 1971

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Issue Contents:

Story Featuring The Losers

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The Real Losers!

Story Featuring The Losers

Storyline

Gunner has had enough and wants out of the war until he finds himself fighting side by side with the walking wounded and decides he needs to stay with the Losers to fight for those who no longer can.

In Tsingtao

Story Featuring U.S.S. Stevens

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Four sailors sneak into Tsingtao, a village liberated from the Japanese during WWII and find that a liberated village is not as safe as they thought.

Soldier's Grave
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Mullah joins the Egyptian army to try to earn some money to feed his family. He stops the Persian advance long enough for the Egyptians to regroup and make a stand.

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Number One
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A soldier who has always been first in everything in his life tries to be the first soldier to land on the beach on D-Day. WWII story.

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Story Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Schwartz kept editorial records for Robert Kanigher, who edited Our Fighting Forces #90, where this story originally appeared.

The K-9 Corps
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Information on dogs. Included are German Shepherds used during WWII, Scottish Terriers, American Foxhounds. Also information on dogs as pets and also dogs used by Hollywood in movies and on TV.

D.C. Sweeps A.C.B.A. Awards
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Story Notes

Information for this sequence from Mike Catron, 5/11/2007. This page looks like it was not inked, and shot from pencils only. Shows selected results of the 1970 Shazam Awards, sponsored by the Academy of Comic Book Arts. Page features reproductions of the covers of Green Lantern #86 and Green Lantern #76, and portraits by Neal Adams of Denny O'Neil, Neal Adams, Dick Giordano, Bob Oksner, Henry Scarpelli, and Jack Adler. This page is also known to have appeared in Flash #210, Green Lantern #86, Our Army at War #238, Tomahawk #137, Our Fighting Forces #134 and possibly other October-November, November, and November-December, 1971 DC Comics titles.

Letter Column Featuring Mail Call!

Story Notes

Includes a letter by Tom Glanzman who is Sam Glanzman's son.

G.I. Jesters

"But, Sarjint... You said 'At ease!'"