2007-05-14 08:59 pm

More Furious Fashions of the Howling Commandos!

Before Nick Fury acquired the eyepatch, he could be distinguished by his shirts, which were inevitably torn (or occasionally missing altogether), displaying his hairy chest of manly commando-ness to terrify the enemy and inspire his comrades!

And also terrorize the quartermasters. )

(From Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos 64 pg. 4, by Gary Friedrich, Tom Sutton, John Severin, and Jerry Feld)

Bonus! Dancing Commandos! (from #13 pg 10-11, Lee and Kirby)

Old ads: Two for body building, and one for weight-gain!

And last but not least: A random moment of Dum Dum/Izzy slash. )
2007-05-13 09:30 pm

Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #45: The Sad Tale of Dum Dum's Fedora

Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #45 is officially entitled "The War Lover" and is described on Wikipedia as "shaded exploration of a trigger-happy soldier and the line drawn, even in war, between killing and murder. Daring for the time, when majority public sentiment still supported the undeclared Vietnam War, the story balanced present-day issues while demonstrating that even in what is referred to as "a just war", a larger morality prevails."

This is true enough. What Wikipedia *doesn't* mention is that it is also a very touching tale of Dum Dum Dugan's devotion to his fedoras.

Witness! Rather a lot of fedora scans )