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Battleground 9

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Published September 1954 – September 1957
Issue Numbers 1 – 20
Total Issues 20
Battleground #9 (1956) | Atlas Tales Cover Image
Issue Information
Cover Date
January 1956
 
Cover Titles
Surprise Attack!
 
Cover Credits
Joe Maneely pencils attributed

Issue Overview

Battleground #9 was published in January 1956. It is part of Battleground, a war series that began in 1954.

Cover credits include Joe Maneely.

Atlas Tales indexes 6 stories for this issue, including "Surprise Attack!." Indexed story credits include Don Heck and Werner Roth, among others.

Stories

Notes: With his fists and his mules, a GI wins the day in Korea.
Notes: In WW I in Asia Minor, a drummer boy improbably blows up a bridge on his own.
Notes: A little public service-style dramatization and lecture, shaming readers into giving blood to "split the shackles of communist slavery."
Feature: The Fight for Freedom
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Notes: A cowardly cook in the great Italian patriot's army proves his mettle when the enemy destroys his camp kitchen. This is an above average job for Krigstein at this time. - John Benson.
Notes: In WW II, a captured flyer smuggles aerial reconnaissance photos back to the Allies.

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