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Our Fighting Forces
File:Our Fighting Forces 29.jpg
Cover to Our Fighting Forces #29 (Jan. 1958).
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
Schedule Bimonthly:
#1-11, #53-64,
#104-153, #167-181
Monthly:
#12-52, #154-166
Eight Times a Year:
#65-103
Format Ongoing series
Publication date Oct./Nov. 1954 - Sept./Oct. 1978
Number of issues 181
Main character(s) Gunner, Sarge and Pooch
Larry Rock the Fighting Devil Dog
Capt. Hunter
Lt. Hunter's Hellcats
The Losers
Creative team
Writer(s) Robert Kanigher
Collected editions
Jack Kirby's The Losers ISBN 1-4012-2165-3

Our Fighting Forces is a DC Comics war-anthology comic book series that ran for 181 issues from 1954-1978.

Writer-editor Robert Kanigher and writer-artist Jack Kirby[1] were among the comics creators whose work appeared in the title. Others include artists Jack Abel, Ross Andru, Ken Barr, Gene Colan, Ed Davis, Mort Drucker, Mike Esposito, Ric Estrada, George Evans, Jerry Grandenetti, Russ Heath, Bruce Jones, Joe Kubert, Irv Novick, John Severin, Tom Sutton, Frank Thorne, and Wally Wood, some of whom would also script.

Recurring features[]

Features published in Our Fighting Forces include:

  • Gunner and Sarge (from issue #45 [May 1959] to issue #94 [August 1965]) — two "Mud-Marines" and their white German Shepherd dog Pooch on a small island in the Pacific.[2]
  • The Fighting Devil-Dog Lt. Larry Rock (the brother of Our Army at War's Sgt. Rock) (from issue #95 [October 1965] until #98 [February 1966]) — Marine wounded at Corregidor by shrapnel in his head that literally makes him see red on a Pacific Island.
  • Capt. Phil Hunter (from issue #99 [April 1966] until #105 [January/February 1967]) — Green Beret in the Vietnam War searching for his twin brother Nick, a pilot shot down by the Viet Cong.
  • Lt. Hunter's Hellcats (from #106 [March/April 1967] until #123 [January/February 1970])— Capt. Hunter's father Ben in World War II who formed a unit of military prisoners (a comics copy of The Dirty Dozen).[2]
  • The Losers (issues #123 [January/February 1970] to #181 [September/October 1978]) — DC Comics war heroes[2] who had lost their own features:
    • Capt. Storm of the Navy who appeared in his own series Capt. Storm which lasted 18 issues.
    • Johnny Cloud of the Army Air Forces who appeared in All-American Men of War.
    • Gunner & Sarge of the Marines who appeared in their own feature in Our Fighting Forces.

Collected editions[]

  • The Losers by Jack Kirby collects Our Fighting Forces #151-162, 240 pages, March 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2165-3[3]

See also[]

References[]

  1. McAvennie, Michael; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1970s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. "Jack Kirby also took on a group of established DC characters that had nothing to lose. The result was a year-long run of Our Fighting Forces tales that were action-packed, personal, and among the most beloved of World War II comics ever produced." 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Irvine, Alex "1950s" in Dolan, p. 73
  3. The Losers by Jack Kirby. DC Comics (March 11, 2009). Archived from the original on July 26, 2013.

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