Great Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century: Tsushima, Jutland, Midway by Jean-Yves Delitte and Giuseppe Baiguera is a graphic novel depicting three naval battles with deeper historical context. Delitte is an official “Painter of the Fleet” and a full member of France’s independent Académie des Arts & Sciences de la Mer (Academy of Arts & Sciences… Read more

Baltimore Comic-Con Live! October 23 – 25. Dead Reckoning is a publisher of graphic novels and an imprint of the Naval Institute Press located in Annapolis, Maryland. We publish nonfiction and fiction with a special focus on military and naval history, military and naval biography, history, and stories of the high seas. We are committed… Read more

The Photographer of Mauthausen and Great Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century called The Comics Beat most anticipated graphic novels for Fall 2020. As we head into the final stretch of 2020, it seems like many of us have lived a lifetime of misery since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the span of… Read more

This compilation restores some of Atlas Comics’ classic combat tales! by Jamie Frevele Back before Marvel became the House of Ideas we know and love today, it started out under the name Atlas Comics. During the 1950s, people of all stripes were looking for stories, and Atlas wanted to tell them. From horror to science… Read more

A standout sequence relates Kirby’s time in the Army: Arriving in France shortly after D-Day, he is plunged into a universe of lethal violence. (When his superiors realize he’s the artist who drew Captain America, they send him ahead as a scout to make maps.) Kirby channeled some of his firsthand experience into fictional war… Read more

With the publication of Dead Reckoning and Marvel’s Atlas at War!, some of the hardest-hitting war stories of the 1950s are back in print for the first time in nearly 70 years. As this book was being prepared, and as immersed as I was in the collective artistic oeuvre of my favorite comic creators of… Read more

DR: We asked Allan Harvey to give readers a “behind-the-scenes look at his work restoring an Atlas at War! graphic. In the following, Harvey walks us through this process. AH: Here’s a panel from a 1952 story drawn by Joe Sinnott. You can see [1] that the paper has deteriorated due to the passage of… Read more

“War is not healthy for children and other living things.” That famous ‘60s slogan was created by women who had grown up with the Korean War and World War II and weren’t at all happy that young men were dying yet again in Vietnam. Nonetheless, there’s something almost mythical about a well-told war story, whether… Read more

Wednesdays (and now Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in! Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words,… Read more

So many terrible things happened during WW2. It is vital that as many of stories of those that experienced it are remembered. This is as much for our sakes as it is for theirs. This was a heartbreaking read. It tells the story of Francisco Boix and his time at Mauthausen, a Nazi concentration camp…. Read more