Issue: #6
Published: December 1951, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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| Cover (1 page) |
Korean Family Man |
| Featuring: |
G.I. Joe |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Norman Saunders (painting) | Inks: Norman Saunders (painting) | Colours: Norman Saunders (painting) | Letters: Typeset |
| Genre: |
War |
| Characters: |
Joe Burch |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Army Facts |
| Synopsis: |
Six facts about armies (facts on kites, land mines, howitzers, tanks, and fuel) and the indicia. |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction War |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
It's a Foot Soldier's Job! |
| Featuring: |
G.I. Joe |
| Synopsis: |
Sam Daily, a new war correspondent, learns what it is really like to be at war. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: George Olesen? | Letters: Ben Oda |
| Genre: |
War |
| Characters: |
Joe Burch Sergeant Mulvaney Sam Daily |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Korean Family Man |
| Featuring: |
G.I. Joe |
| Synopsis: |
Joe "adopts" a puppy and a young Korean boy. |
| Credits: |
Letters: Ben Oda |
| Genre: |
War |
| Characters: |
Joe Burch |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Frankie of the Pump! |
| Featuring: |
Buddies |
| Synopsis: |
Frankie, the cook for Baker Company, quits after a new guy, Henshaw, insults his cooking because it doesn't taste like rations. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Frank Giacoia? | Inks: Frank Giacoia? |
| Genre: |
War |
| Characters: |
Francois De La Salle Henshaw |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Air Force Blues |
| Credits: |
Script: Ed Silverman | Letters: Typeset |
| Genre: |
War |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
23 Notches for Zeb! |
| Featuring: |
G.I. Joe |
| Synopsis: |
Zeb receives news from home that his father is ill. |
| Credits: |
Letters: Ben Oda |
| Genre: |
War |
| Characters: |
Joe Burch Zeb |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
Beanbags |
| Synopsis: |
Ad for Beanbags #1 from Ziff-Davis. Includes a line-drawing of the cover (final cover was painted). |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Ben Brown | Inks: David Gantz | Letters: Typeset |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Shell Shocked |
| Featuring: |
The Yardbirds |
| Synopsis: |
Whitey and Windy tour Basil Murgatrod, the Mayor of Flatville, around the base and almost get all of them killed. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Dan DeCarlo ? | Inks: Dan DeCarlo ? |
| Genre: |
Humor War |
| Characters: |
Whitey Hicks Windy Basil Q. Murgatrod |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Corporal's Tree |
| Featuring: |
G.I. Joe |
| Synopsis: |
Corporal Carpuccio strives to protect a tree from the enemy and from his own fellow soldiers. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Mike Suchorsky | Inks: Mike Suchorsky | Letters: Ben Oda |
| Genre: |
War |
| Characters: |
Joe Burch Tony Carpuccio |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Fast Dance |
| Synopsis: |
A soldier trudges in from the front to go to a dance, but quickly has to go back. |
| Credits: |
Script: Wally Littman [as Littman] | Pencils: Wally Littman [as Littman] | Inks: Wally Littman [as Littman] | Letters: Wally Littman [as Littman] |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
The Garand Rifle |
| Featuring: |
Our Army and its Weapons |
| Synopsis: |
Facts about the Garand Rifle. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Paul Parker [as Parker] | Inks: Paul Parker [as Parker] |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction War |
| Illustration (1 page) |
Soldiers Marching Up a Hill |
| Synopsis: |
Back cover of comic. Heavily inked drawing of soldiers walking up a hill into the sunset. |
| Genre: |
War |
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