Decent Comics: "Gung Ho!" by Kirby and Berry

Here we are, Groove-ophiles! The final Losers story by Jack Kirby from Our Fighting Forces #162 (September 1975). This one starts off with a misleading cover by Ernie Chua (Chan); misleading in that it has the wrong Loser featured in the scene, it should be Gunner, not Sarge, as you'll see for yourself when you read "Gung Ho!" But The King went out with style, allowing the least of the Losers, Gunner, his own time to shine and do his part to give us another action-packed fable on the atrocities of war.

Jack's 100th birthday celebration is coming up at the end of the month, and unless you've been under a rock, you've notices that it's been celebrated on comicbook sites and blogs pretty much all year long. And that's how it should be!

Decent Comics: "The Major's Dream" by Kirby and Berry

AttennSHUN, Groove-ophiles! Jack "King" Kirby is back with another Losers mini-epic! "The Major's Dream" from Our Fighting Forces #161 (August 1975) feels almost like an episode of The Twilight Zone, but it's really King Kirby dealing with the sensitive issue of the trauma suffered by so many soldiers of all ranks and nations. D. Bruce Berry inked it, and somebody at World Color Press messed up with the printing plate on page one! Oh, yeah--and Joe Kubert drew the cover!

Decent Comics: "Ivan" by Kirby and Royer

What's up, Groove-ophiles! In Our Fighting Forces #160's (July 1975) "Ivan" by Jack Kirby and Mike Royer, we're given two of the most vile and frightening characters in the King's entire run on the Losers: Ivan and his mother. A pair of Russian Nazi sympathizers living like vultures by toying with the lives of  those hunted by the Nazis, Ivan and his mother are a reminder that the lowest form of humanity can come in any form. Naturally, this being a Kirby (and Comics Code approved) mag, they get theirs in the end...

Cover art by Joe Kubert