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As with many comic book titles published at the time, Fightin' Navy did not start with issue number one; it was a renaming of a series called Don Winslow of the Navy, which published four issues, numbered #70–73, from March–September 1955. The Don Winslow title originated with Fawcett Comics, which published 69 issues from 1943 to 1951.
Broadside is a weekly, single-panel comic published in Navy Times from 1986 until March 2020, and written by Jeff Bacon. [1] [2] The humor is very specifically directed at United States Navy personnel, and considered nearly incomprehensible by many non-Navy servicepersons.
The comic is a tool to help Navy Corpsmen relate to the four fictional main characters, 19-year-olds Jason Banks and Derek Jackson, 22-year-old Erica Mendez, and 38-year-old John Wallace, in dealing with similar issues of stress, and tension in deployment, "The story follows them as they grapple with having to kill enemy forces; struggle to ...
Wilson Starbuck (December 25, 1897 – December 27, 1983) was an American writer, sailor, and United States Navy officer known for his written works involving life at sea. . He is best known for creating the World War II comic strip Navy Bob Steele which was published by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate from 1939 to 1945, and for his play Sea Dogs which was staged on Broadway in 19
Half Hitch is an American comic strip by Hank Ketcham, in syndication first between 1943 and 1945 and later from 1970 to 1975. It is an example of military humor, but unlike most cartoons and comics of this genre, is focused on the navy, rather than the army. The unnamed character first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1943. [1]
Farmer Palmer – a paranoid, money-grabbing farmer with an inbred son and daughter (who go on to marry each other) whose catch phrase is "Get orf moi laaaand!". He frequently berates and physically threatens (usually with a double-barrelled shotgun) innocent members of the public for encroaching on his property, yet he hypocritically treats the countryside with complete disdain.
Buz rejoined the Navy in the 1950s and flew carrier-based reconnaissance attack jets over Vietnam during the 1960s. Roy Crane was one of the innovators of the adventure comic strip. Wash Tubbs began in 1924 as a humorous story about the romantic adventures of Washington Tubbs, but increasingly Tubbs became involved in exciting adventures in ...
Comics with the navy, marine and/or seafaring in general as theme. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. A. Aquaman (2 C, 24 ...