On sale soon, Atlas at War! from US publisher Dead Reckoning collects 50 hard-hitting stories from Atlas Comics, the company that became Marvel Comics and published more war titles than anyone in the industry between the years 1951 and 1960. Comics historian Dr. Michael J. Vassallo has chosen the best of the best, many of… Read more

This is a dramatic retelling of true events in the life of Francisco—or François—Boix, a Spanish press photographer and communist who fled to France at the beginning of World War II. But there, he found himself handed over by the French to the Nazis, who sent him to the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp, where he… Read more

Presented here are 50 gritty, dirty, honest, time of war stories from Atlas Comics. Atlas later became Marvel and some of your favorite Marvel writers and artists from the early days are here to remind us all that War is Hell. The war comics were very popular 1951 to 1960 and this collection grabs the… Read more

The lengthy introduction to, “Atlas At War,” by the book’s editor, Dr. Michael J. Vassallo, is careful to point out that so many war comics were produced during the ’40s and ’50s (before somewhat fading away) that there is enough material for arguably 4 more think books after this impressive tome. I don’t doubt it,… Read more

The photographer of Mauthausen is a Historical Fiction/ Non-Fiction Graphic Novel based on true events. Actually the author himself have disclaimed that the dialogues between the characters are only guesswork so we can safely say it as retelling based on true events in the life of Francisco Boix. Francisco was Spanish press photographer and belonged… Read more

This graphic novel presents three the major naval battles: the Battle of Tsushima, the Battle of Jutland, and the Battle of Midway. In the Battle of Tsushima, the Russian Baltic Fleet is ordered to reinforce the fleet at Port Arthur, but their way is blocked by the English control of the Suez Canal. By the… Read more

The Stringbags. If you do the incredible often enough, they’ll want you to do the impossible. Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy began World War II with aircraft that could devastate enemy warships and merchantmen at will. Britain’s Royal Navy squadrons went to war equipped with the Fairey Swordfish. A biplane torpedo bomber in… Read more

The Stringbags – biplanes flying through WWII, underpowered, undergunned, whose crews never expected to become heroes in a plane that was never expected to become the stuff of legends. Garth Ennis and PJ Holden‘s Stringbags takes three of the most famous missions and ties it all together through the exploits of a trio of fictional… Read more

AUG201282 (W) Jean-Yves DeLitte, Giuseppe Baiguera (A) Jean-Yves DeLitte, Giuseppe Baiguera Since the publication of Alfred Thayer Mahan’s seminal The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, the important and defining role of sea power on civilization has been recognized. This symbol of a nation’s scientific and military genius has often been the deciding factor during… Read more

My first thought on Garth Ennis’ The Night Witches was a question. Would the story fall closer to Kate Quinn’s The Huntress or Aimie K. Runyan’s Daughters of the Night Sky? My second thought was to chastise myself for assuming the three-volume collection would resemble either, but I suppose such comparison should be expected when… Read more