G.I. Combat, #108

Published: October-November 1964

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G.I. Combat #108

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Issue Contents:
The Wounded Won't Wait!
1 page war
Characters
  • Haunted Tank
  • Lt. Jeb Stuart
  • Sgt. Rock
  • Easy Company [Ice Cream Soldier
  • Wild Man]
Credits
Smoking Is for Squares!
Story 1 1 page advocacy
Credits
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

The Wounded Won't Wait!
Story 2 14 pages war
Storyline

Lt. Stuart is trying to get his three wounded crewmen to an army hospital when he is helped by Sgt. Rock and a couple of Easy Company soldiers. But they are also wounded. Tank commander and sergeant dodge more tanks to reach a field hospital, but it's under fire from an enemy advance. They charge the oncoming forces - and the walking wounded stumble in to save the day!

Characters
  • Haunted Tank
  • Lt. Jeb Stuart
  • Arch Asher
  • Rick Rawlins
  • Slim Stryker
  • General J.E.B. Stuart (ghost)
  • Sgt. Rock
  • Easy Company [Ice Cream Soldier
  • Wild Man]
Story Notes

Story in two parts: Part One (6.67 pp.) & Part Two (7.67 pp.). Jeb Stuart recalls meeting Rock and Johnny Cloud previously in "Brave & Bold [#52] presents 3 Battle Stars (Feb-March)" to rescue Mlle. Marie from the Gestapo.

Story 3 0 pages

"Tootsie Rolls go on and on..."

Story Notes

At the bottom of page 7 of the previous story sequence.

Featuring 80 Page Giant Magazine; The Flash

Story 4 1 page

"Stop! Treacherous traps!"

Story Notes

On the page immediately following page 7 of the previous story sequence.

Story 5 1 page

"Boys and girls! Be my guest..."

Story Notes

On the page immediately following page 7 of the previous story sequence.

Story 6 1 page

"Be first in your neighborhood to read each issue..."

Story Notes

On the page immediately following the two previous sequences.

Featuring American Military Ornaments

Story 7 1 page non-fiction

"In 1836, the Jackson Artillerists of Philadelphia..."

Story Notes

On the page immediately preceding page 8 of the previous story sequence.

Story 8 1 page

"Nothing else is Silly Putty!"

Story Notes

On the page immediately preceding page 8 of the previous story sequence.

Story 9 0 pages

"What makes a Tootsie Pop so special?"

100 Magnets
Story 10 1 page
207 Stamps
Story 11 1 page
Story 12 1 page
Storyline

Rock answers questions about auto-semiautomatic fire, ace counts, bomb fuses, foxholes, tank destroyers.

Credits
Story Notes

Letters from Walt Jannsen, Bob Wheeler, Steve Kovens, Harry Levin, Sid Sterncroft, Freddie Lindell, and Roy Wardle.

Story 13 1 page

"Boys! Men! My secret new dynaflex method..."

Private War!
Story 14 9 pages war
Storyline

In WW1, a pilot and doughboy vie for Tammy's hand. She'll marry whoever comes back the biggest hero. Soon the pilot lifts the doughboy in his biplane, but his guns jam, so the doughboy is the hero as he shoots down enemy fighters. Later the doughboy's company is caught in a gas attack. The pilot's plane ditches, can't fly, but blows away the gas and rams a tank. So both are recuperating heroes in hospital when both get "Dear John" letters from Tammy. She married a desk jockey!

Story 15 0 pages

"I like chocolate fudge best!"

132 Pc. Roman Soldiers
Story 16 1 page
Credits
204 pc. Revolutionary War Soldiers
Story 17 1 page
100 Pc. Toy Soldier Set
Story 18 1 page
Story 19 1 page

"Brother, can you spare a dime..."

Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 20 1 page

"Boys, girls, men, women..."

Story Notes

Back cover.