from General Douglas MacArthur one-shot (Fox, 1951), creators uncredited and unknown
Showing posts with label Iwo Jima. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iwo Jima. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Today in Comics History, February 23, 1945: Raise High the Roof Beam Flagpole, Carpenters Marines
from General Douglas MacArthur one-shot (Fox, 1951), creators uncredited and unknown
Today in Comics History, February 23, 1945: Silly! Mountains aren't made of bullets!
from The World Around Us #11 [The Illustrated Story of the Marines] (Gilberton, July 1959), pencils and inks by Gerald McCann
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Today in Comics History, February 22, 1945: Marines make a brave assault on Tokyo Disneyland's Space Mountain
from The World Around Us #11 [The Illustrated Story of the Marines] (Gilberton, July 1959), pencils and inks by Gerald McCann
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Today in Comics Real History, February 19, 1945: They battled up Iwo Jima hill / Two hundred and fifty men / But only twenty-seven lived / To walk back down again
The comics you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While the following does not represent the comics industry view of today's society, these panels are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.
from "Scoops... Pictures to Remember" in Real Fact Comics #5 (DC/National, November 1946), pencils and inks by George Roussos
from "Scoops... Pictures to Remember" in Real Fact Comics #5 (DC/National, November 1946), pencils and inks by George Roussos
Monday, February 23, 2009
Ten of a Kind and Today in Comics History, February 23, 1945: Uncommon valor was a common virtue
"Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue."—Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
Sixty-four years ago today, February 23, 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the image of US Marines and a US Navy corpsman raising the American flag during "Operation Detachment"—the battle for the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Read more about the raising of the flag and the famous photograph here, and enjoy these homages to one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century:
(More Ten of a Kind here.) See also.
Sixty-four years ago today, February 23, 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the image of US Marines and a US Navy corpsman raising the American flag during "Operation Detachment"—the battle for the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Read more about the raising of the flag and the famous photograph here, and enjoy these homages to one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century:
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