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Army Man (tagline: "America's Only Magazine") was a comedy magazine published in the late 1980s by George Meyer, who went on to be an acclaimed writer for The Simpsons. The magazine consisted mostly of very short and surreal jokes, along with cartoons. Each issue also featured Jack Handey 's "Deep Thoughts", as well as other pieces written by him.
Leonard Matlovich. Technical Sergeant Leonard Phillip Matlovich (July 6, 1943 – June 22, 1988) [1] was an American Vietnam War veteran, race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. [2] He was the first gay service member to purposely out himself to the military to fight their ban on gays, and perhaps the ...
In 1988, Sam Simon, a reader of Army Man, recruited Swartzwelder and Meyer to write for the animated sitcom The Simpsons. [11] By 1994, with the show's sixth season, Swartzwelder was granted a special dispensation and allowed not to attend rewrite sessions with the rest of the staff, instead being allowed to send drafts of his scripts in from home so other writers could revise them as they saw ...
In 2011, Time magazine placed the army men on their list of 100 most popular toys of all time. [1] This cultural phenomenon was represented in Army Men, a popular series of video games introduced by 3DO in the 1990s. Green army men were also among the characters in the 1995 Disney Pixar animated film, Toy Story and its three sequels. Gummy army ...
Soldier of Fortune magazine was founded in 1975, by Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve, (Ret.) Robert K. Brown, who served with Special Forces in Vietnam. [4] After retiring from active duty, Brown began publishing a “circular”, magazine-type publication with few pages which contained information on mercenary employment in Oman, where the Sultan Qaboos had recently deposed his father ...
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Fiction genres. Crime, war, thrillers, romance, Western. K.G. Murray Publishing Company is an Australian publisher primarily known for its publication of DC reprint comics. Established in 1936 in Sydney, Australia by Kenneth "K. G." Murray, the company was a family-owned and run business until its sale to Australian Consolidated Press in 1973.
Renshaw is a professional hit-man, who returns from his assassination of a toy-maker to find a package delivered to his penthouse apartment in the Bay Area. The package contains a G.I. Joe Vietnam footlocker, sent to him by the mother of the toy-maker he had recently killed. When he opens the package, he finds that the toy soldiers are alive ...