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Oct-91

Sub-title: "The Ville"- POW from issue 60 escapes to a villiage where a kind old lady- blind of course takes care of him (showing not all North Vietnamese were the enemy), both of them pay the...

Dec-88

Premis: Semper Fi' is a comic series about the US Marines role in various American conflicts. It follows one family, the Whittiers (who have been Marines since 1775), thru their experiences....

Jan-89

Premis: Semper Fi' is a comic series about the US Marines role in various American conflicts. It follows one family, the Whittiers (who have been Marines since 1775), thru their experiences....

Aug-91

Sub-title: "Buff Strike" Air strikes in the North begin again. One man is taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese.

Cover: Paratrooper falling from sky- there is an explosion above him. It...

Jul-91

Subtitle: The Death of Joe Hallen, part five of five: "Down So Long..." Joe Hallen does not phsically die- he is sent to the brig at Camp Pendelton. Personal interpretation is that he died...

Jun-91

Sub-title: The Death Of Joe Hallan, part four of five: "Burned" In Cambodia, Khmer soldiers, things getting shady (CIA)

Cover: Joe Hallen sitting in torn up uniform in from of smoking blue...

Jan-91

Sub-title: The Punisher Invades, part one: "The Long Sticks" Part one in a two part series, a sniper is ordered to track and kill a VC Sniper, who is infamous , he gets caught, and hangs himself...

Apr-87

Sub-title: "Humpin' the Boonies" in reference to a long range patrol with full gear, moving thru the field.

Cover: Three American soldiers (one black) looking at three posts with dead...

Nov-90

Sub-title: "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" Love in Vietnam.

Cover: Image shows soldier falling from the sky towards rice paddys that are highlighted with a heart- it says "He was a...

Dec-90

Sub-title: "Stone Age" Wedding between a copter pilot, and donut dolly in a French Cathedral (remaining),

Cover: Two skeletons getting married in a Catholic Cathedral, in-countrym :Till...

May-91

Sub-title: The Death of Joe Hallen, part three of five: "Whipping Post" In Cambodia, plotting POW extraction

Cover: Blue, orange and white, a shadowy dipiction of heavy fighting. Marvel...

Feb-91

Sub-title: The Punisher Invades, part two: "The Long Sticks" The sniper in part one set it up to look like he had killed himself, only to turn to tides, and finidh his mission.

Cover: "...

Mar-91

Subtitle: Part one in five The Death of Joe Hallen: "Bring it on Home To Me" Joe Hallan at home- different than what he expected, so hard to readjust, he re-up's.

Cover: Joe Hallan with...

Aug-90

sub-title: "Brothers-In-Arms" Racial tensions, and soldier comradery

Cover: One white soldier, and on black soldier fighting, while surrounded by guns. Under the title it asks "Can they...

Jun-90

Sub-title: "Looking Out For Number One" About an Black soldier who in Korea was kept from promoting due to his ethnicity, his father was a WWII hero, he was promoted just before Vietnam.

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Jul-90

Sub-title: "On the Clock" orders to invade Cambodia, balck market trade, American troops selling American supplies.

Cover: Shows a US Soldier with money in his hand, sitting behind a desk...

Sep-90

Sub-title: "The C-Note" Soldier Comradery

Cover: Soldiers in a heavy fire-fight. The Marvel signage is in the upper left corner, and there is a bar-code in the lower left.

Oct-90

Sub-title: "What They're Fighting For" Women in the combat zone, helicopters, to be continued...

Cover: Helicopter with a missile coming towards it, the Marvel comic sign is in the upper...

Mar-90

Subtitle: "Inquitry" This issue is about whether you save one, all, or most of your men.

Cover: A Huey is seen taking heavy fire, while the men in back try to pull up a rope. The Marvel...

May-90

Sub-title: "Football Hero"- fear, and the average man in the field

Cover: a helmet, the tip of a gun, a hand, some bullets, and a cut out from a newspaper that reads "Foorball hero 'Rocket...

Apr-90

Subtitle: "The Weight" This title is a reference to the psychological implications of war, and of surviving, while your buudies died.

Cover: Two eye, boardered by black with writing on it...

Dec-89

Sub-title: "Family Affair" Vietnamese father and son argue about which side to take- if either

Cover: Young Vietnamese, on VC "uniform" (tire sandles, and black pj's) with tanks flanking...

Mar-87

Sub-title: "Six O'Clock News" in reference to TV crews that filmed combat during the war.

Cover: helicopters, soldiers with weapons, television camera-man. Marvel 25th Anniversay in top...

Jan-90

Subtitle: "Down By the Riverside" The Regular troops meet some others whose roles are different.

Cover: Shows US Soldiers riding up a river, in a jungle, on a boat- the question poses "Up...

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