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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9873341" data-attributes="member: 86653">Two more Weird War Tales issues.But first. Damn do I love this comic. As much as I love Tales from the Crypt, that’s mostly from the excellent TV series on HBO in the late 80s and early 90s. The comics are good, but the really great stories are spread out across dozens of issues and 5-6 different horror titles EC published back in the day. The signal-to-noise ratio on the average Weird War Tales comic seems to be higher. Far more hits than misses it seems like. The clear theme definitely restricts what they could do, but it also provides a clear focus. Weird War Tales 20.Death Watch. WW2. A coward has a prophetic dream about dying in a farmhouse from a German attack. He wakes just in time to run. The Germans attack and slaughter his unit. He watches from a nearby hillside as the Germans prepare an ambush for an incoming column of US troops. The coward stays hidden and watches them die. When the Germans leave, the coward breaks cover and investigates the site. Only he hears vehicles coming and hides again. Turns out it’s a US unit and it’s the last day of the war. The war is over. The coward is safe. He breaks cover to cheer his survival…only the soldiers can’t hear him. He’s already dead. He’s been a ghost since the initial attack.Operation: Voodoo. The Haitian Revolution. I was excited to get a different time period for a change, but the racism of the story drained whatever little joy there was. A French officer uses a voodoo priest to murder the head of the resistance. Turns out the murdered man had a voodoo priest of his own who murders the French officer in turn. Did I mention the racism? Gods damn.Death is a Green Man. WW2. Battle of London. A pilot crash lands and dies of a heart attack only to be brought back after a few minutes. He gains the power to see when someone will die the next day. He sees them as a green, corpse-like figure instead of fully flesh and blood. He’s freaked out but keeps it to himself. A sees a few green men and confirms his power works, then he sees he’s green in the mirror. Thinking he’ll outmaneuver death, he calls off sick so he doesn’t have to fly. The doc gives him penicillin and the pilot dies from the shot.Weird War Tales 21.One Hour to Kill. WW2. The government builds a time machine and uses it to send someone back in time to kill Leonardo da Vinci because he invented automatic weapons. They pick a soldier with a conscience who can’t go through with the job and also leaves behind his .45 automatic…giving da Vinci the idea for automatic weapons in the first place. Really, guys? Middle of WW2 and you’ve got a time machine and the best you can come up with is taking out da Vinci.When Death Took a Hand. WW2. A cowardly private freezes when a hand grenade is thrown at his feet. He miraculously survives but sees Death as an ghost in front of him. Death beckons him up a ridge. The rest of his platoon think he’s nuts. He flushes out a German ambush and the rest of the men charge after him to assist. They find him dead after the battle. Back down the hill where he was killed by the grenade. They followed a ghost into battle.</blockquote>

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