Blazing Combat

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Written by Archie Goodwin and drawn by such luminaries as Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, John Severin, Alex Toth, Al Williamson, Russ Heath, Reed Crandall, and Gene Colan, Blazing Combat was originally published by independent comics publisher James Warren in 1965 and 66. Following in the tradition of Harvey Kurtzmans Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, Goodwins stories reflected the human realities and personal costs of war rather than exploiting the clichés of the traditional mens adventure genre. They were among the best comics stories about war ever published.

Blazing Combat ended after its fourth issue when military post exchanges refused to sell the title due to their perception that it was an anti-war comic. Their hostility was fueled by the depiction of the then-current Vietnam War, especially a story entitled 'Landscape,' which follows the thoughts of a simple Vietnamese peasant rice-farmer who pays the ultimate price simply for living where he does ' and which was considered anti-war agitprop by the more hawkish members of the business community.