MAJOR THORN
Real Name: Thorn (first name unrevealed)
Identity/Class: Human (World War II era through post-World War II era)
Occupation: Military officer
Group Membership: U.S. Army (D Company, Baker Company), US Rangers (A.G.I. Battalion)
Affiliations: The Bacardi Brothers, General Carter, Chauncy Chadwick, Combat Kelly, Colonel Gioletti, Harry, Kitty Klick, Joe Morgan, Cookie Novak, Sgt. O'Hooligan, John Porter, Yamakayaka
Enemies: The Butcher of Kochung, Chinese soldiers, Foy-Yun, Imperial Japanese army, Korea Katie, Nazis, Colonel Ti-Tong, Yalu River Rosie
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Mobile in Korea during the Korean War;
formerly mobile in the European, North African and Pacific Theaters during World War II
First Appearance: Combat Kelly I#1 (November, 1951)
Powers/Abilities: Major Thorn was a capable military leader. He usually carried an army pistol strapped to his left shoulder. On occasions, he carried an automatic rifle, grenades and an army knife.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'11")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 140 lbs.)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black with streaks of gray
History:
(Combat Kelly I#21/4) - In Italy, Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak fought
the Nazis at the Voltorno River, whose bridge the Germans destroyed to
delay the Allies' advance. Captain Thorn called for assault boats which
the men used to continue their push through German lines until pontoon
bridge could be raised.
(Combat Kelly I#38) - Kelly and Cookie captured an Italian town by permitting the Nazis to drink up all the wine. When Captain Thorn's forces rolled in, he found all of the Nazis were in a drunken stupor. Thorn considered Kelly and Cookie to have made the supreme sacrifice by letting the Nazis drink all the wine.
(Combat Kelly I#28/4) - On January 22, 1944, Kelly and Cookie reported to Captain Thorn that they'd destroyed the Germans' giant cannon Anzio Aggie. Later, Kelly and Cookie showed Thorn a remote-controlled German tank they had captured.
(Combat Kelly I#23/4) - During the battle of Mount Cassino (February 1-15, 1944) in Italy, Captain Thorn sent Kelly and Cookie to destroy a German cannon.
(Combat Kelly I#24/4) - In December 1944, Captain Thorn sent Kelly and Cookie through the snowy Apennine Mountains leading pack mules with supplies. The soldiers who received the ammunition considered it their Christmas present.
(Combat Kelly I#31/4) - In March 1945, Kelly, Cookie and Captain Thorn headed into Lubeck and received guidance from Agent K in pursuing the Nazis' Wolves Division to their base. Agent K sacrificed her life to destroy the Wolves' base with dynamite.
(Combat Kelly I#40/2) - In March 1945, the Nazis destroyed a bridge to try and stop Baker Company from advancing but Captain Thorn ordered Kelly and his fellow soldiers to turn empty oil drums into makeshift boats to float across by night then capture the bank from the Nazis.
(Combat Kelly I#39/5) - In March 1945, Captain Thorn led Baker Company to use gliders to land atop Kuna Atoll and defend it from the Japanese, repelling naval and aerial attacks.
(Combat Kelly I#33 (fb)) - Lt. Thorn led Baker Company against the Japanese on Onna Atoll. When all the Japanese were on a small part of the atoll connected by a bridge, Kelly proposed to Thorn that he destroy the bridge. Thorn approved and Kelly used explosives to destroy the bridge, causing the small portion to drift away from the atoll."
(Combat Kelly I#34) - On Kawawa Atoll, a band of Japanese soldiers held a perfect position atop a high stone cliff but Kelly planted dynamite to blast the stone apart so that the cliff toppled over. Captain Thorn renamed the atoll "Combat Kelly Atoll."
(Combat Kelly I#36/2) - At Kumo Atoll, Captain Thorn led Baker Company against the Japanese, who had superior ammunition supplies thanks their supply boat. One night, Kelly and Cookie snuck aboard the boat and sunk its larger supply ship then turned the munitions against the Japanese on Kumo Atoll.
(Combat Kelly I#42/2) - Captain Thorn led Baker Company against the Japanese on Tsuki Atoll. To keep the Japanese from landing their planes on the atoll, Kelly and Cookie rolled oil drums down into the airfield, removing their ability to land.
(Combat Kelly I#43/2) - On a Pacific atoll, Captain Thorn led Baker Company against miniature Japanese tanks. Kelly rigged the tanks to blow up when retaken and destroyed the Japanese camp.
(Combat Kelly I#44/2) - While on Kabu Atoll, the men of Baker Company thought a lot of Thorn and wanted him to be promoted to major. Although his heroics didn't earn him the promotion, the tireless campaigns and testimonials from his men convinced the army to promote Thorn. Kelly and Cookie pinned the gold leaves on Thorn's uniform.
(Battle I#61/2) - On Baku Atoll, Major Thorn led the A.G.I. Battalion, including Joe Morgan and Harry as they stormed the beach. The Japanese had an observation post which A.G.I. Battalion couldn't identify and Joe discovered they were using a volcano, making it appear active by lighting oil drums. Joe and Harry defeated the team at the volcano then sent a message over the Japanese army's loudspeaker to Major Thorn, telling him it was safe to advance. This allowed the rest of the battalion to finish off the remaining forces.
(Combat Kelly I#1/2) - Now serving in Korea during the Korean War, Major Thorn was assigned as superior officer over Pvt. Hank "Combat" Kelly and Cookie Novak. Thorn ordered them on a patrol to capture a Chinese officer. Kelly and Cookie soon returned with a prisoner and Thorn was pleased until Cookie admitted Kelly had killed 9 other soldiers, disobeying his orders. Thorn put them into the stockade but after interrogating the prisoner determined that a radio transmitter being used by the Chinese to spread propaganda with their mouthpiece Seoul City Sue was nearby. Thorn released Kelly and Cookie from the stockade and ordered them to locate the transmitter. The duo succeeded but were taken prisoner and found the transmitter was camouflaged by haystacks. Ordered by the Chinese to deliver propaganda messages on the radio, Kelly sent a message to Major Thorn, saying he was "where you'd only look for a needle." Thorn realized this meant they were concealed by haystacks. Major Thorn led his men into the field and in just 20 minutes found the base where Kelly and Cookie were held and mopped up the Chinese there. Major Thorn expected to find Cookie and Kelly prisoners but instead walked in on Kelly relaxing with Seoul City Sue sitting on his lap.
(Combat Kelly I#2) - When Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak returned from having traveled through enemy lines, Major Thorn was furious at them for leaving their patrol to escort photographer Kitty Klick. Thorn sent them to the stockade but Thorn was convinced to withhold punishing them further when he saw the photos Kelly took behind enemy lines with Kitty's camera. Thorn wound up giving Kelly and Cookie medals instead.
(Combat Kelly I#3) - Major Thorn and his men moved in to occupy a temple in Kumsong where the Communists had a radio station. To his irritation, he found Kelly and Cookie had been dancing with the station's all-female staff, getting them to play swing music instead of targeting Thorn's men.
(Combat Kelly I#3/3) - Major Thorn was annoyed again by Kelly's antics when Kelly captured a Communist spy that had been hijacking convoy trucks but Kelly had taken the unorthodox step of romancing the spy.
(Combat Kelly I#4) - Major Thorn ordered his men into an offensive action at Heartbreak Ridge. When the enemy charged their position, Thorn ordered his men to affix bayonets and charge. Thorn's squad ultimately triumphed.
(Combat Kelly I#4/3) - Major Thorn sent Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak to help defend their convoys against enemy tanks. When they reported back that they had destroyed the tanks using molotov cocktails, a disbelieving Thorn wondered if Kelly was drunk.
(Combat Kelly I#5/3) - Major Thorn was surprised when Combat Kelly returned from a patrol alone, the rest of his patrol having been killed. Kelly informed Major Thorn how a South Korean woman had saved his life and shared intelligence on a nearby guerrilla base so that Thorn could order combat helicopters to destroy the base.
(Combat Kelly I#6) - After narrowly surviving an incident where he'd been captured by the Chinese, Kelly reported back to Major Thorn. Although Kelly didn't know where the enemy forces were headed, they had planned to time their attack when the squad sounded their bugle. Thorn arranged for Cookie to sound a bugle so they could ambush the Chinese in response. The ambush worked but Cookie was trapped behind enemy lines. Thorn apologized to Kelly over Cookie's capture.
(Combat Kelly I#6/2) - Major Thorn gave Kelly permission to go behind enemy lines and rescue Cookie, a mission which proved successful.
(Combat Kelly I#7) - After an attack on their lines, Major Thorn sent Kelly and Cookie on a patrol to gather intelligence on where the next attack would come from. Kelly and Cookie ended up being captured but tricked the Chinese into doping themselves with sleeping medication. When Major Thorn and Sgt. O'Hooligan arrived at the slumbering camp, they found Kelly and Cookie had also been doped and fallen asleep. Grateful to them for what they'd done, Thorn draped his jacket over them as they slept.
(Battlefront I#6) - Kelly and Cookie brought Major Thorn film footage they had captured from a Chinese soldier who was filming American troops in combat. Later, they used similar footage to frighten the Chinese into thinking reinforcements were coming. The soldiers surrendered to Major Thorn, who quipped that Kelly and Cookie weren't ugly enough to make the red army surrender.
(Battlefront I#7) - Kelly and Cookie delivered to Major Thorn a hay wagon full of enemy soldiers. Thorn sent them on patrol in the north, where they found similar wagons and destroyed them all.
(Combat Kelly I#8) - Major Thorn was irritated when Kelly and Cookie left camp without permission, although they returned with prisoners who had information on Yalu River Rosie, a guerrilla the duo had fought before. Thorn ordered Kelly to guard a pontoon bridge but Cookie told Thorn about their previous encounter with Rosie. Thorn decided to go easy on Kelly and gave him a 5-day R and R pass. Kelly replied that he'd use that pass to go looking for Yalu River Rosie. At that, Thorn threw up his hands in frustration. When they returned with Rosie as their prisoner, Thorn told them their R and R was over and to go back on assignment.
(Combat Kelly I#8/3) - Cookie seized control of a secret Communist jet and flew it back to his own lines, where Major Thorn had been hoping to examine such a model of enemy aircraft. Thorn was so excited that he cooked a meal especially for Cookie.
(Combat Kelly I#9) - After Kelly and Cookie caught two Chinese soldiers, Major Thorn told them that the prisoners might prove valuable to Army intelligence so he rewarded them with 24-hour passes.
(Combat Kelly I#9/2) - After Sgt. O'Hooligan caught Combat Kelly AWOL in a pool of water with Yalu River Rosie, Major Thorn punished Kelly by putting him in the stockade. When Cookie Novak later returned and, thinking Combat was dead, told what had happened, he was accused of covering up for his friend and Major Thorn sent him to the stockade as well.
(Combat Kelly I#9/3) - Cookie delivered papers to Major Thorn that were given to him by Colonel Gioletti and which Cookie had assumed were important, having gone to great lengths to defend them from enemy troops. It proved to be Colonel Gioletti's recipe for spaghetti sauce.
(Combat Kelly I#9/4) - Major Thorn saw how Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak had used a captured enemy tank to create a makeshift bridge across a gorge.
(Combat Kelly I#10/2) - Major Thorn sent Kelly and Cookie into the town Hwangtu, Kelly armed with a flamethrower. When the town was cleared, they signaled Major Thorn and he advanced with the rest of the company. They pursued Chinese forces into the nearby mountains and Thorn sent Kelly and Cookie to clear out a bunker using the flamethrower. When Kelly and Cookie tumbled down the mountain, scorched from battle, Thorn and Sgt. O'Hooligan gave them a playful kiss of thanks.
(Combat Kelly I#10/4) - Major Thorn released Yalu River Rosie from the guardhouse and ordered Kelly and Cookie to exchange her for General Carter but once the duo had General Carter, Rosie turned on them. Cookie and Kelly took Rosie prisoner again and got back to Major Thorn with her and Carter.
(Battlefront I#10) - Kelly and Cookie were transporting secret plans when their jeep containing the plans was recaptured. They retook the vehicle but couldn't find the plans. Before they could inform Major Thorn of the loss of the plans, a mechanic found them hidden inside the gas tank. Thorn congratulated Kelly and Cookie, thinking they were the ones who had hidden the plans in the gas tank.
(Combat Kelly I#11) - Kelly and Cookie captured a Chinese officer carrying plans for a giant rocket weapon. Major Thorn examined the plans then ordered two-man teams to search for the weapon. Kelly and Cookie ultimately found the rocket and redirected it at Moscow.
(Combat Kelly I#11/4) - When Yalu River Rosie and her fellow prisoners built a catapult in the stockade and started hurling flaming objects at the camp, Major Thorn met with Rosie through the barbed wire and heard her demand to be released or else she would target the ammunition dump. Refusing to release her, Thorn instead sent Kelly and Cookie into the stockade to disarm Rosie and the prisoners. The duo failed so Thorn next sent in a tank and tear gas to forcibly pacify Rosie and the other prisoners.
(Combat Kelly I#12) - After a prisoner captured by Kelly and Cookie mentioned Yalu River Rosie during an interrogation, Major Thorn became concerned the Communists were preparing to break her out of the stockade. He ordered Kelly and Cookie to transfer Rosie to a location in the rear of their lines.
(Combat Kelly I#13) - Major Thorn was captured by Chinese soldiers who stole maps from him then prepared to execute him via firing squad. Yamakayaka, Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak interceded in time to save Major Thorn and Yamakayaka did most of the work, even dragging a Chinese helicopter back down to Earth and recovering the stolen maps. Although he had previously stated Yamakayaka couldn't join the U.S. Army due to regulations, Thorn decided "blazes with regulations" and announced he's recommend Yamakayaka for enlistment.
(Combat Kelly I#13/2) - After Kelly and Cookie brought in two prisoners, Major Thorn rewarded them 12-hour passes. He mentioned he'd hand out a month's leave to whoever captured the guerrilla Korea Katie.
(Combat Kelly I#14) - Enemy forces claimed Yongwa and set up camp inside the town's ancient Buddhist temple. Major Thorn debated attacking the town, knowing they would have to destroy the temple. The people of Yongwa solved the matter by blowing up their own temple, allowing Thorn to lead a quick invasion and capture the town.
(Combat Kelly I#14/3) - When Cookie was on latrine digging duty yet managed to capture three enemy soldiers using his shovel, Major Thorn was impressed and gave Cookie a medal. Unaware of Cookie's heroics, O'Hooligan accused him of abandoning his duty without permission and kicked him. Outraged, Major Thorn ordered O'Hooligan to dig the latrine himself.
(Combat Kelly I#14/4) - Major Thorn informed Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak of the importance of capturing a hill that was heavily fortified by the enemy. Kelly wound up commandeering a truck of ammunition and setting it off in the enemy camp at the top of the hill but he broke his arm while escaping the blast. In honor of his actions, Major Thorn told the U.S. Army to name the hill "Kelly Hill."
(Combat Kelly I#16) - After Combat Kelly recaptured Yalu River Rosie, he informed Major Thorn that he'd learned of an impending attack on their base by Colonel Ti-Tong. Guided by Kelly to the colonel's location nearby a bridge, Major Thorn had a bazooka team destroy the bridge so the colonel couldn't retreat then moved in to capture the colonel's entire force.
(Combat Kelly I#16/2) - Major Thorn officially inducted Yamakayaka into the Army on temporary duty assignment under United Nations auspices. Thorn asked Kelly and Cookie to take Yamakayaka into the field and see what outfit would be best-suited for his talents. Soon after, there was an enemy attack on their camp and Thorn ordered Kelly, Cookie and Yamakayaka to bring ammunition to their right flank. After repeatedly being impressed by Yamakayaka's incredible physical prowess, Kelly ultimately informed Major Thorn that he should assign Yamakayaka to a one-man division!
(Combat Kelly I#17) - Yalu River Rosie escaped the stockade again, this time using a giant slingshot. She took Major Thorn as a hostage and fled north with Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak giving chase. Rosie brought Major Thorn to an enemy tank depot but Kelly and Cookie hijacked one of the tanks and set it near a dam, knowing a friendly air patrol would spot and bomb it. The bomb destroyed the dam, forcing Rosie to flee for her life and enabling Major Thorn to escape her custody. Kelly and Cookie brought Major Thorn back to their camp.
(Combat Kelly I#17/4) - Major Thorn was leading his men against the Butcher of Kochung, who had built a mechanical dragon to inspire terror. Cookie and Kelly commandeered the dragon and used it to attack the Chinese then kill the Butcher of Kochung.
(Combat Kelly I#20/3) - Major Thorn decorated Cookie with a medal when he seemed to have single-handedly defeated a Chinese squad. The heroics were actually performed by the modest Yamakayaka.
(Combat Kelly I#21/3) - When Cookie rescued a Korean orphan girl, he treated her as a camp mascot but Major Thorn eventually convinced Cookie to send her to an orphanage instead.
(Combat Kelly I#23) - Kelly and Cookie brought the Chinese officer Colonel Fajen to Major Thorn for interrogation. The duo believed the tattoo on Fajen's chest contained a list of secret operatives but, after an interrogation, it proved to be simply a poem. The duo later returned to Major Thorn with the actual lists, which they found in the stomach of one of Panther Lady's panthers.
(Combat Kelly I#26) - Kelly and Cookie brought Major Thorn a film they had captured from the Communists and assumed it was valuable material. However, it proved to be a Buck Duck cartoon reel!
(Combat Kelly I#30) - Major Thorn's forces captured the village of Hatong. The villagers assumed the U.S. forces would pillage them but Major Thorn insisted they weren't there to plunder them. Over time, the soldiers' actions convinced the villagers and they even donated blood to help Major Thorn's wounded men.
(Combat Kelly I#31) - Major Thorn remarked to Kelly and Cookie that they always seemed to come back from their patrols with "fantastic" stories about their adventures. During a Communist assault on their camp, Major Thorn was kidnapped. Kelly and Cookie pursued him to a POW camp and liberated Thorn and the other prisoners then captured a train to get back to their lines. After this episode, Thorn said he'd never doubt Kelly and Cookie's stories again.
(Combat Kelly I#32) - Major Thorn saw that Kelly and Cookie had captured the town Mukyong from the Communists as he ordered them to.
(Combat Kelly I#33/4) - Major Thorn led Fox Company against the North Korean guerrilla leader Foy-Yun. Kelly and Cookie helped orchestrate his defeat by liberating South Korean prisoners from Foy-Yun's camp, who then joined the fight against him.
(Combat Kelly I#38/2) - Major Thorn led Baker Company in the field to destroy an enemy bridge. Probing the defenses of the enemy soldiers there, Thorn determined their best course of action was to circle around the enemy by building a raft with explosive charges aboard and sailing it upriver to the bridge but the Chinese shot it down first. Kelly and Cookie solved the problem by dumping gasoline into the river then lighting it on fire, creating a blaze which consumed the wooden bridge entirely.
(Combat Kelly I#39) - Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak used a rocket launcher to blast an enemy pillbox so Major Thorn's men could advance and capture it. Spying tank tracks nearby, Thorn sent Kelly and Cookie to trail the tanks and destroy them.
(Combat Kelly I#40/5) - The village of Hasung was surrounded by Devil Posts. The people of Hasung happily welcomed Baker Company in their village. When the Communists attacked Hasung at night, they mistook the posts for U.S. forces and shot them by mistake.
(Combat Kelly I#41) - Thorn captured the town of Karyoju but a large number of enemy tanks came to recapture it from the U.S. Army. Cookie discovered a deposit of alkali so he and Kelly used it to mark enemy tanks with U.S. markings, tricking them into destroying their own tanks.
(Combat Kelly I#41/2) - Major Thorn was present as Kelly and Cookie were honored by the U.S. Air Force for destroying a Communist air base.
(Combat Kelly I#42) - Major Thorn directed Kelly and Cookie to liberate a farmhouse from the Communists, who were using the family there as human shields. Kelly discovered battle plans inside the farmhouse and Thorn made a copy then returned them to the Communists' hiding place. When the Communists returned with a larger force, Thorn withdrew but only so the U.N. could combine forces for a mass attack through that sector.
(Combat Kelly I#43/4) - Major Thorn was captured by the Chinese. Sgt. O'Hooligan led a rescue team using Cookie Novak and the Bacardi Brothers. The Bacardi Brothers' acrobatic abilities enabled them to easily reach the second floor of the Red Interrogation Camp where Thorn was held then get him away safely.
(Combat Kelly I#43/5) - Combat Kelly and Major Thorn were approached by Chu Lu, who asked that they not destroy the village's temple. Major Thorn agreed. The Red Chinese had set up their artillery O.P. in the temple and Baker Company's efforts to take it failed. Since Thorn made a promise not to destroy the sacred shrine, the Americans retreated. Seeing the Americans retreat, the Communists came out yelling and celebrating. Unknown to them, not all of Baker Company had left and enough remained hidden in the trenches to capture them and the temple.
(Combat Kelly I#44) - Major Thorn's forces faced a new enemy tank that was completely invulnerable but Cookie got at the crew by inserting angry bees inside the tank; the crew exited the tank covered in bee stings.
(Combat Kelly I#44/3) - Major Thorn overheard Chauncy Chadwick boasting to other members of Baker Company about his abilities as a wrestler.
(Combat Kelly I#44/5) - After Kelly and Cookie escaped from a Communist camp and told of their encounter with Communist agents Kim and Kam to Major Thorn, Thorn helped them piece together the fact that Kim and Kam were actually working behind the lines to disrupt the Communists and had allowed them to escape.
(Battle I#60/4) - After his company distinguished themselves in battle, Major Thorn offered a trip to the USA on a bond drive to one soldier. John Porter nominated Cookie Novak but Cookie nominated John, who received the trip.
Comments: Created by Hank Chapman and an unidentified artist.
In Major Thorn's first appearance, there's no sense that he'd spent apparently all of World War II fighting alongside Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak; the World War II stories didn't become a regular feature until Combat Kelly I#18.
The story in Battle I#61/2 might be a Combat Kelly story that was slightly altered to remove Kelly and Cookie's distinctive features. Major Thorn wasn't altered.
In Korean War stories, he was Major Thorn through Combat Kelly I#40 then started being referred to as "Captain Thorn" in issue #41 as a typo (the same story also calls him "Major Thorn"). When in doubt, he was a captain in World War II, a major in the Korean War.
Profile by Prime Eternal.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Major Thorn should not be confused with:
Harry was one of the men who served in Baker Company, A.G.I. Battalion under the command of Major Thorn on Baku Atoll in World War II. He was a good friend of Joe Morgan. Together, they discovered the seemingly-active volcano on Baku Atoll was actually the result of the Japanese lighting oil drums on the top of the crater. They defeated the Japanese atop the volcano then sent a loudspeaker message to Major Thorn telling him to advance his men and surround the Japanese.
--Battle I#61/2
I think he might be a slightly-altered Cookie Novak.
Joe Morgan was one of the men who served in Baker Company. A.G.I. Battalion under the command of Major Thorn on Baku Atoll in World War II. He was a good friend of Harry. Together, they discovered the seemingly-active volcano on Baku Atoll was actually the result of the Japanese lighting oil drums on the top of the crater. They defeated the Japanese atop the volcano then sent a loudspeaker message to Major Thorn telling him to advance his men and surround the Japanese.
--Battle I#61/2
I think he might be a slightly-altered Combat Kelly.
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Battle I#61/2, page 1, panel 1 (Thorn, main)
Combat Kelly I#38/2, page 1, panel 1 (Thorn, face)
Battle I#61/2, page 3, panel 7 (Harry)
Battle I#61/2, page 1, panel 2 (Morgan)
Appearances:
Combat Kelly#1/2 (November, 1951) - Hank Chapman (writer), unidentified artist, Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#2 (January, 1952) - unidentified writer, Al Hartley (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#3-4 (March-May, 1952) - Hank Chapman (writer), Joe Maneely (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#5/3 (July, 1952) - Hank Chapman (writer), Joe Maneely (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#6-7 (September-November, 1952) - Hank Chapman (writer), Joe Maneely (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Battlefront I#6 (November, 1952) - Hank Chapman (writer), Al Hartley (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Battlefront I#7 (December, 1952) - Hank Chapman (writer), Al Hartley (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#8/1 (December, 1952) - Hank Chapman (writer), Joe Maneely (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#8/3 (December, 1952) - Hank Chapman (writer), Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#9/1,2 (January, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Joe Maneely (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#9/3,4 (January, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Al Hartley (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#10/2 (February, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Al Hartley (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#10/4 (February, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Joe Maneely (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Battlefront I#10 (March, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Al Hartley (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#11/1 (March, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Joe Maneely (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#11/4 (March, 1953) - unidentified writer, Al Hartley (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#12-13 (April-May, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#14/1 (June, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#14/3,4 (June, 1953) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly#16-17 (October-December, 1953) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly I#20/3 (March, 1954) - Hank Chapman (writer), Dick Ayers (penciler), Ernie Bache (inker), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly I#21/4 (April, 1954) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly I#23-24 (August-September, 1954) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly I#26 (November, 1954) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly I#28/4 (January, 1955) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly I#30-32 (April-August, 1955) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly I#33 (October, 1955) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly I#34 (December, 1955) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly I#38-42 (August, 1956-April, 1957) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly I#43/2,5 (June, 1957) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly I#43/4 (June, 1957) - unidentified writer, Chuck Miller (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly I#44/3,5 (August, 1957) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Battle I#60/4 (October, 1958) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Battle I#61/2 (December, 1958) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
First posted: 09/11/2025
Last updated:
09/11/2025
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