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Combat Casey 17
Atlas Tales
Title Profile
Curated Atlas tales, timelines, and cover art notes.
Issue Information
- Cover Date
- August 1954
- Sighted Date Stamps
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5/26
June 16
- Indicia Publisher
- Sports Action, Inc.
- Starring
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Combat Casey starring
- Cover Credits
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Russ Heath pencils and inks signed
- Contributions
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Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Cover Creator Credit
Issue Overview
Combat Casey #17 was published by Sports Action, Inc. in August 1954. It is part of the Combat Casey series, which ran from January 1953 to July 1957.
Cover credits include Russ Heath. This issue features Combat Casey.
Atlas Tales indexes 5 stories for this issue, including "Up from the Ranks." Indexed story credits include Robert Q. Sale and Joe Maneely, among others.
Stories
Untitled
Credits
Robert Q. Sale pencils and inks signed
Combat Casey
starring
Contributors:
Joe Moore: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Joe Moore: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: Communist guerilla "Red Poppy" grows poppies and produces opium that she sells to "communist guerillas in South Korea ... and they use it to break the mind and spirit of the South Koreans!" Includes detailed depictions of how the milky latex is extracted from immature capsules, dried, and rolled into balls.
Untitled
Credits
Robert Q. Sale pencils signed
Combat Casey
starring
Contributors:
Joe Moore: Creator Credit
Dave O'Dell: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Joe Moore: Creator Credit
Dave O'Dell: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: WWI story narrated by Combat Casey.
"When I was in bonnie England durin' big bang number two, I met a terrifc lassie there whose pop was a tar in the British navy in World War I! The stories that this old bloke told me made me forget I was supposed to hold hands with his daughter!...".
Combat Casey narrates this story of World War I, a format that later crystallized as the series "True Action-Packed Battle Stories of World War I, Told by ... Combat Casey ".
"When I was in bonnie England durin' big bang number two, I met a terrifc lassie there whose pop was a tar in the British navy in World War I! The stories that this old bloke told me made me forget I was supposed to hold hands with his daughter!...".
Combat Casey narrates this story of World War I, a format that later crystallized as the series "True Action-Packed Battle Stories of World War I, Told by ... Combat Casey ".
Up from the Ranks
Credits
Joe Maneely pencils guess
Dudley the Demon!
Credits
Bill Savage pencils and inks signed
Penny Pennington
starring
Contributors:
Joe Moore: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Joe Moore: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Notes: Korean War story.
A Combat Casey Salute to the United States Army Transportation Corps
Credits
Robert Q. Sale pencils signed
Robert Q. Sale inks guess
Combat Casey
starring
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: German Fuehrer Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) appears.
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