G.I. Combat, #127
Published: December 1967-January 1968
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Kill That Tank!
Credits
- Pencils: Joe Kubert
- Inks: Joe Kubert
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Mission -- Sudden Death!!
"The enemy just clobbered the skipper's tank"
Storyline
Jeb and his crew help Mlle. Marie free her scientist father from Nazi captivity in France.
Characters
- Mlle. Marie
- General J.E.B. Stuart
- Jeb Stuart
- Rick
- Arch
- Slim
- Skipper (death)
Credits
- Script: Robert Kanigher
- Pencils: Irv Novick
- Inks: Irv Novick
- Letters: Charlotte Jetter
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 this issue. Story in two parts of 5.5 and 8.5 pages.
Featuring Dig What's Coming; The Flash
"The winner!"
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Mike Esposito
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
House ad for The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #175 [second Flash-Superman race], contained in a Boltinoff humor strip.
"Young man, I've been watching you for the past half hour!"
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
Credits
- Script: Robert Kanigher
- Pencils: Joe Kubert
- Inks: Joe Kubert
Story Notes
Letters submitted by Robert Miles, Rickie Crankell, Ed Boscowitz, Mike Gilhoolet.
Featuring Dig What's Coming; War that Time Forgot
"C'mon! Give me a chance to read Star Spangled War Stories!"
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Joe Kubert
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Joe Kubert
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
House ad for Star Spangled War Stories (DC, 1952 series) #136, contained in a Boltinoff humor strip.
The Last Chance for Hobie!
Storyline
After flunking out of pilot training, Hobie Harris studies to be a bombardier. Though successful in schooling, he repeatedly fails in combat situations. However, he completes his mission by flying a captured enemy plane back to base and is given another chance at pilot training.
Credits
- Script: Howard Liss
- Pencils: Jack Abel
- Inks: Jack Abel
- Letters: Joe Letterese
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 this issue.
"I can't race my car. The contact brushes broke off."
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
Story Notes
Idea from Ray Oakley, St. Louis, Mo.
Credits
- Script: E. Nelson Bridwell (uncertain)
- Pencils: Gil Kane
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
- Inks: Sid Greene
- Inks: Mike Sekowsky
Story Notes
Listing of DC comics on sale in mid-October 1967; includes cover art for Green Lantern (DC, 1960 series) #58 and Batman (DC, 1940 series) #197.
Bad News, Readers!
Credits
- Pencils: Curt Swan
- Inks: George Klein
Story Notes
House ad for Superman (DC, 1939 series) #202 [80 Page Giant #G-42], on sale October 17.
2 Neither Alive nor Dead!
Credits
- Pencils: Mike Sekowsky
- Pencils: Murphy Anderson
- Inks: George Roussos
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
Inside back cover; house ad for Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) and The Spectre (DC, 1967 series).