Fightin' Army #77
Will Franz, Sam Glanzman and Joe Gill · PD
All Fightin' Army issues
A fugitive American captain poses as a Nazi tank driver to survive the brutal front lines of World War II. This gritty anthology collects several tales of military suspense, including a sniper hunt in a Luxembourg castle, a desperate Marine holdout on the beaches of Saipan, and a Morse code mystery in Vietnam. In the featured saga, Captain Willy Schultz must navigate the deadly suspicions of his German crew while struggling to protect his own countrymen from the shadows of the Panzer division.
27 pages · 134 panels · every panel read aloud, every balloon voiced, with sound effects and soundscapes.
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How “Fightin' Army #77” begins
Every balloon from the first pages, as it is read aloud:
Fightin' army
Thrill to the continuing exciting saga of… "the lonely war of captain willy shultz!"
The executioner
My rifle company is dug in on a hill west of a big castle in luxemburg. The fighting has moved on… We're feeling pretty safe and lt. Jones is pointing out something to t/sgt. Knowles, when suddenly he's slammed back by something. A second later, i hear the far-off crack of the kraut mauser 8mm sniper's rifle…
It's a sniper, i realize. It's got to be… But where? There shouldn't be any nazis within 6,000 yards of our position. The castle? Impossible, brigade h.q. Is located in it…
Sniper. Over there in the… Ungh!
Where? Sarge, what ha…
I know i'm next then and i duck…
Just in time!
He'll murder me just like he did them!
No! I can't stay here! He'll get me sooner or later!
Then… There are no more bullets. Not a sound on the hill. The sun is warm on me… I begin to think perhaps he has gone away. So i look…
He has i'm gonna get out of here!
Move, feet… Get me to that ditch!