Featuring: Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos
Release: November 11, 1965
Cover: January 1966
12 cents
Written with block-buster force by Stan Lee!
Drawn with machine-gun power by Dick Ayers!
Inked with dive-bomber impact by Carl Hubbell!
Lettered with bloodshot eyes by Artie Simek!
20 pages
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Sweet dreams, Master Race!!
We last saw Dum Dum two issues back. He was wounded in America and sent to the hospital. The Howlers couldn’t wait for him because they were urgently recalled to base to battle (maybe) the Red Skull. Dum Dum was in for a worse fate, because his wife and mother-in-law were going to visit him in the hospital.
This will be Dum Dum’s chance to shine in a largely solo feature.
We see the rest of the team in the beginning for a mission brief that fills us in on what Dum Dum has been up to since his recovery.
Gabe offers an odd bit of humor to characterize Nick’s mood: “Fury’s meaner than a Ku Klux’er without his sheet!”
The Skipper attends the briefing and we meet his first mate for the first time. Mr. Stone is his name. Not the last we’ll see of the character.
The Sea Shark is a notorious German warship that has been very successful at sinking Allied ships. And Dum Dum and three others are imprisoned after an aerial battle.
Some solid depiction of the aerial battle by Ayers and Hubbell here.
The Sea Shark’s next target is the Queen Elizabeth. The HMS Queen Elizabeth was a real World War II battleship, the flagship of the 2nd Fleet.
Dum Dum leads an escape and manages to blow up the Sea Shark.
He’s rescued from the ocean by the Skipper’s sub with his fellow Commandos on board.
Rating: ★★★☆☆, 53/100
Significance: ★★★☆☆
My copy of the comic is pretty badly stapled, hence many scans above not getting the edges right. Really nothing I could do short of removing the staples.
Characters:
- Corporal Dum Dum Dugan
- Rebel Ralston
- Pinky Pinkerton
- Sgt. Nick Fury
- Izzy Cohen
- Gabe Jones
- Dino Manelli
- The Skipper
- Mr. Stone
- Captain Happy Sam Sawyer
- Vice Admiral Ribbondorf
Story notes:
- Flight of B-17s attacked while being ferried to ETO by Sea Shark.
- German ME-109s fought Allied bombers last night at 2200; Dum Dum was acting tail gunner, taking down four enemy planes in under two minutes, but ultimately unable to save the slower bomber from going down.
- Dum Dum and three other survivors, a captain and two lieutenants, end up in lifeboat, then captured by Sea Shark.
- Ribbondorf the commander of the Sea Shark.
- Sea Shark’s secret is to take advantage of fog and jam all radio communications in the area.
- Dum Dum and pals plant bomb to blow up the Sea Shark, and then escape overboard with the crew.
| Previous | #457 | Next |
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| Tales of Suspense #76 | Reading order | Daredevil #12 |
| Sgt. Fury #25 | Sgt. Fury | Sgt. Fury #27 |
