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Series
Battleground 9
Atlas Tales
Title Profile
Curated Atlas tales, timelines, and cover art notes.
Issue Information
- Cover Date
- January 1956
- Cover Titles
- Surprise Attack!
- Cover Credits
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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.
Operation Secret
Credits
Credits not yet documented
Bridge Crossing
Credits
Werner Roth pencils attributed
Contributors:
John Benson: Creator Credit
Frank Wilmot: Creator Credit
John Benson: Creator Credit
Frank Wilmot: Creator Credit
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
Garibaldi
Credits
Bernie Krigstein pencils signed
Contributors:
John Benson: Creator Credit
John Benson: Story Scan
John Benson: Creator Credit
John Benson: Story Scan
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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