COMBAT CASEY
Real Name: Henry P. Casey
Identity/Class: Human (World
War II era to post-World
War II era)
Occupation: Military Policeman;
former soldier
Group Membership: U.S. Rangers, U.S. Army (2nd and 27th Infantry Divisions) (Able Company, Dog Company, George Company, Baker Company, C Company)
Affiliations: Lt. Baker, Corporal Buggsie Bartek, Chee-Choo, Torchy Finnigan, Gerda, Corporal Higgans, Private Bobby Jackson, Captain Jack Jackson, Major Kent, Lt. Kim, Lt. Kowalski, the Manatelli Brothers (Angie Manatelli, Joe Manatelli, Pete Manatelli, Tony Manatelli), Pach-Hoo, Percy P. Pennington, Sgt. Pulaski, Roanhorse, Captain Rocke, Sik Soo, Sloe-Joe, Captain Stone
Enemies: Chung, Comrade China, Gertrude, Kaesong Katie, Sum Kim, Major Ming, Mokuei, Major Mong, Colonel Mung, Major Mung, Nita, Major Pak, Panther Lady, Red Poppy, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Snake Lady of Sinyong, Commissar Susang, General Tungwa, General Volker, Colonel Pao Yung
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: 12044277 T52 (dog tag identification)
Base of Operations: Mobile in Korea;
formerly mobile in the Pacific, European and North
African Theaters of war
First Appearance: War Combat I#5 (November, 1952)
Powers/Abilities: Casey was an expert combatant who usually wielded a rifle, knife and grenades. He was an excellent brawler in hand-to-hand combat. He sometimes carried a radio, flamethrower, bazooka, minesweeper or first aid kit. Years of working alongside Percival P. Pennington gave him a terrific amount of practice kit-bashing weapons using materials found in the field. He had lengthy experience using explosives in the field.
Height: Unrevealed
(approximately 6'1")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 185 lbs.)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Red (possibly reddish-brown)
Blood Type: AB
History:
(Combat Casey I#26/2) - February, 1943. In Libya, after a
sandstorm saved Combat Casey's squad from Rommel's tanks, Casey and
Percival P. "Penny" Pennington used Nazi planes to kick up their own
sandstorm and forced Rommel's men to surrender.
(Combat Casey I#21/4) - March 25, 1943 In Gabes, Tunisia, Casey and "Penny" helped drive out Nazi forces to help General Patton's tanks proceed.
(Combat Casey I#16/2) - April 23, 1943. In Bizerte, Tunisia, the Nazi spy Gertrude captured Casey and "Penny" to force them to broadcast a radio message in support of the Nazis in Tunisia but Casey refused and broke out with "Penny." Gertrude died in the resulting firefight and Casey got on another radio to direct his side to sink a Nazi ship.
(Combat Casey I#33/2) - In North Africa, Dog Company found themselves under repeated heavy artillery fire from the Germans. "Penny" conceived of a plan to hide themselves under the sand and use a rubber hose to breathe. When the rest of Dog Company retreated, the Germans advanced, enabling Casey, "Penny" and the other concealed soldiers to rise up from the sand and flank them, capturing the Germans.
(Combat Casey I#19/2) - June 10, 1943. After landing in Sicily via glider, Combat saw a line of tanks headed to meet Allied landing forces but the gliders that had transported them into Sicily were repurposed into debris to gum up the tanks.
(Combat Casey I#29/2) - June 30, 1943. While serving aboard a cargo ship on guard duty, Casey and "Penny" went underwater to battle Japanese frogmen who were trying to sabotage the fleet. The duo helped destroy a Japanese submarine guarding Rendova Island.
(Combat Casey I#20/4) - November 1943. In Monte Camino, Italy, Casey and "Penny" were caught by General Volker but "Penny" befriended Volker's giant eagles. The eagles helped the duo escape and even captured Volker to return to Stone as their prisoner.
(Combat Casey I#23/4) - February 1-4, 1944. Casey's company fought the Japanese on Kwajalein Atoll. To flush the enemy out of the jungle, "Penny" had the company's trucks loaded with explosives to frighten them into surrender.
(Combat Casey I#15) - June 6, 1944. On D-Day, Combat Casey led a squad of Rangers including Sloe-Joe to destroy enemy artillery in Normandy.
(Combat Casey I#25/2) - June 6, 1944. Casey and "Penny" went behind enemy lines aboard a glider and stole Nazi papers from a headquarters in France. "Penny" built a giant slingshot so their glider could make its escape.
(Combat Casey I#22/4) - June 15, 1944. Fighting with the 27th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, Casey and "Penny" helped capture a hill on the island of Saipan and discovered Japanese cannons on the other side. "Penny" had them employ cables to disassemble their own guns and rebuild them atop the hill so they could blast apart the Japanese guns.
(Combat Casey I#18) - July, 1944. Casey
and "Penny" discovered Nazis were getting into the seaport of Leghorn,
Italy by wearing cork jackets. Investigating the harbor, they spotted a
German ship but two sentries caught them and ferried them aboard the
boat to La Spezia. However, they overcame the crew on the German ship
and enabled a PT boat to torpedo it, abandoning ship in time to get
aboard the PT boat.
(Combat Casey I#17/4) - August 1944. Casey and "Penny" were ordered by Sgt. Pulaski to help defend the Red Ball Express, a convoy bringing supplies to Patton's tanks.
(Combat Casey I#24) - 1945. Combat Casey's company fought the Japanese on the volcanic island Kuroi Riku. "Penny" discovered underground passages and, by lighting fires below, Casey and "Penny" tricked the Japanese into thinking the volcano was becoming active, tricking them into surrendering.
(Combat Casey I#25) - Combat Casey joined Able Company on Aru Atoll,
where the Japanese had a stronghold, but "Penny" noticed in an almanac
that the tide was about to rise so Able Company pulled out. The rising
tide swallowed almost the entire atoll.
(Combat Casey I#26/5) - Combat Casey fought the Japanese on the island
Kubasuki. "Penny" trained monkeys to steal weapons and food from the
Japanese until the enemy was forced to surrender to them.
(Combat Casey I#27/3) - Combat Casey joined George Company to fight the
Japanese on the island Akai. With ammunition running low, "Penny"
taught Casey and the others how to make bolas to ensnare their foes.
(Combat Casey I#28) - On the island of Kagua, the Japanese tried to force Casey and "Penny" to help them trick their arriving forces into an ambush but instead, Casey and "Penny" got free and held the entire Japanese squad at bay with heavy machine guns. Thanks to their efforts, the US infantry captured Kagua.
(Combat Casey I#30/5) - Fighting Japanese tanks at night on the island Futsu, Casey and "Penny" commandeered the lead vehicle then guided the rest of the tanks over a cliff.
(Combat Casey I#31/2) - Captain Rocke was kidnapped by the Japanese on a Pacific atoll. Casey kidnapped a Japanese colonel to exchange him for Captain Rocke but the Japanese major refused the trade. Outraged, the colonel helped Casey save Rocke and Casey watched with admiration as the colonel and major fought each other.
(Combat Casey I#32/2) - Heavy rainfall on Yoku Atoll rendered Dog Company's weapons useless. Realizing this meant the Japanese weapons were useless as well, Casey, "Penny" and the others charged the Japanese and bested them hand-to-hand.
(War Combat I#5) - While out alone on patrol, Combat Casey encountered a squad of Chinese soldiers. Although he gave them a good fight, he was ultimately taken alive and tied up to a tree with Percival P. Pennington, who had been out looking for flowers when he was captured. The Chinese left Casey and "Penny" tied to a tree, hoping the heat would induce them to give up information about their squad's location. However, "Penny" used his glasses to focus the sun's rays through their ropes, burning them enough to weaken the bonds and set Casey free. Fleeing, the duo discovered a series of camouflaged artillery cannons and "Penny" suggested they clog the cannons with shovelfuls of dirt. When the Chinese later attempted to fire them, the cannons exploded. Casey and "Penny" returned to their lines.
(War Combat I#5/3) - Casey and "Penny" fought off a squad of Chinese soldiers as "Penny" pulled the pins on grenades and threw them to Casey, who both threw them and batted them with his rifle at the enemy. When the enemy was beaten, "Penny" noted Casey had promised to go with him in search of wild flowers. Casey grudgingly agreed and during the excursion, Casey noticed two Chinese soldiers also investigating flowers. Before he could shoot them, "Penny" noted the soldiers were collecting insects and that they should investigate further. Trailing the enemy, they followed them to a camp where the Chinese were raising insects in incubators to use in spreading germ warfare. Casey and "Penny" destroyed the building housing the insects.
(Combat I#7) - Casey and "Penny" helped repulse an assault by Chinese soldiers who were brandishing molotov cocktails. Their superior officer Captain Stone asked the two of them to find the missing combat photographer Flash Finnegan. Casey and "Penny" followed discarded flash bulbs until they discovered Flash, who proved to be a woman encircled by Chinese soldiers. Aware that Casey and "Penny" were nearby, Flash invited to give the Chinese a group photograph and once her flash went off, blinding them, Casey and "Penny" fired at the enemy. Casey and "Penny" both wrecked their rifles during the fight but offered to help escort Flash back to their lines. When she mentioned drinking from a well that tasted like gasoline, they decided to investigate and found this was the well where the Chinese had been making molotov cocktails. With no weapons left, "Penny" suggested they improvise, using Flash's camera to heat up a flash bulb, which Casey threw from above into the well of gasoline. The hot bulb caused the well to explode. The duo brought Flash back to their lines and she kissed Casey in gratitude. When Flash asked Casey to shave off his beard because she'd like him better, he explained that he wouldn't shave until the war was over.
(Combat I#7/3) - Tired of being shelled by enemy forces, Casey learned he was temporarily in command due to an injury Captain Stone had suffered in the bombardment. He ordered himself and "Penny" to a nearby cliff, assuming they would be free from the barrage up there. However, they discovered enemy forces operating in the snow and had to fend them off. They were aided by Casey's radio, which "Penny" had set up to broadcast a radio drama about Battle Brady; dialogue from the program confused the enemy long enough for Casey and "Penny" to overcome them. Discovering where the enemy was based in the mountains, Casey sent their coordinates to artillery to blast their camp. "Penny" found more enemy soldiers scaling the side of the mountain but he and Casey defeated them by rolling immense snowballs downhill that rolled the soldiers to the foot of the mountain.
(Combat I#8) - While Casey and "Penny" were in battle together, Casey was badly injured. Checking his dogtags, "Penny" learned they were both type AB and so gave Casey a transfusion of his own blood to save his life. "Penny" prayed over his friend and soon enough, Casey recovered. Casey had to be forced into a hospital to receive treatment and insisted on going back into battle as soon as possible. Back in the field, the duo were almost immediately captured by the forces of Colonel Pao Yung. The Chinese demanded that Casey and "Penny" perform a blood transfusion. Casey refused but "Penny" finally agreed to, gambling that, as only 4% of people had type AB, the colonel wouldn't be of the same type. The colonel seemed to recover and released Casey and "Penny" from custody to execute them himself but he then collapsed and died, his blood type being something other than type AB. Casey apologized to "Penny" for assuming he had given blood as a collaborator.
(Combat Casey I#6) - After a successful patrol, Casey and "Penny" were reassigned to Major Kent's engineers as punishment by Captain Stone. Casey and "Penny" were assigned to assist in clearing out a road for the army in the Kasui Forest. When enemy forces moved in on their position, "Penny" used his knowledge of bees to extract a beehive. The duo hurled the beehive at the Chinese and the bees chased the soldiers away.
(Combat Casey I#6/4) - Combat and "Penny" were caught by the Chinese, tied to wooden stakes and interrogated but "Penny" correctly predicted an eclipse of the sun and used it to terrify the Chinese into thinking he had magical powers, allowing he and Casey to get free.
(Combat I#9) - "Penny" was caught by the Communists but Casey escaped by leaping into a river and found an underwater entrance into the Communist base. Casey set "Penny" free but they were intercepted by a Chinese officer before they could escape. The officer ordered them to engage in combat against each other using swords. Casey pretended to try and kill "Penny," instead maneuvering them both towards a cannon which he then commandeered to fire upon the Chinese. After thinning out the numbers of the soldiers in the enemy base, they jumped bak into the water and swam to safety.
(Combat I#10) - The Communists used miniature tank drones to attack U.S. bases but "Penny" threw the tanks off their programming by exposing them to a magnetic pull from lodestone.
(Combat Casey I#7) - While assigned to a heavy machine gun post, Combat and "Penny" fought Chinese soldiers. "Penny" overheated the heavy machine gun while firing it at the enemy. When he and Casey were caught, "Penny" claimed he could order the gun to fire; a shell in the overheated chamber then went off and killed one of the Chinese soldiers, convincing them of "Penny's powers," so they surrendered en masse.
(Combat Casey I#7/2) - While on a "look-see" patrol, Casey and Pennington were surrounded by Communist soldiers at the base of a hill. "Penny" used fireflies to create a makeshift signal light and alerted the air force, who disposed of the encamped Chinese.
(Combat Casey I#7/3) - While out smelling flowers, "Penny" was captured by the Chinese and tortured with an open flame but refused to submit. Casey went in search of "Penny" and was himself captured and held in a separate hut. Freeing himself, "Penny" used the fire to create flaming arrows and fight his way to safety. The fires "Penny" started brought more soldiers to investigate and they released both "Penny" and Casey.
(Combat Casey I#7/4) - Combat and "Penny" brought
down a Chinese tank together, which "Torchy" Finnegan captured using her
camera. When "Torchy" kept getting in his way, Casey spanked her and
sent
her away but after he and "Penny" were caught by the enemy, she rescued
them by throwing flashbulbs to simulate gunfire, tricking the Communists
into surrendering.
(Combat Casey I#8) - Casey and "Penny" held off Communist soldiers from a wintry mountainside cave. When they were sealed inside the cave, the Communists tried to kill them by pumping carbon monoxide into the cave but "Penny" lit a handkerchief inside the tube, causing an explosion. They were finally reunited with the rest of their forces but Captain Stone ordered them to guard the company's rear - from inside another cave!
(Combat Casey I#8/2) - Casey and "Penny" came across a black panther caught in a trap. Casey wanted to shoot it but "Penny" set the animal free, winning the creature's affection. Two weeks later while on patrol, Casey and "Penny" were captured by Chinese soldiers under the command of the Panther Lady, a femme fatale who kept pet panthers. The Panther Lady sealed the two men inside a cave with her pet Mao but Mao proved to be the same panther that "Penny" had earlier saved from a trap and remained grateful to "Penny." The two men feigned being killed by Mao and when the Panther Lady opened the cavern, Mao attacked her men and even threatened her until she surrendered. "Penny" set Mao free while Casey tied up the Panther Lady as their prisoner.
(Combat Casey I#8/4) - Casey and "Penny" were sent to capture prisoners but although prisoners eluded their grasp, one soldier they roughed up proved to be carrying a valuable map of Communist bases in North Korea and Manchuria. The duo evaded enemy fire by climbing inside steel drums and rolling down a hill but were left extremely dizzy. When they brought the maps back to Captain Stone, Stone assuming their staggering behavior was due to drinking and put them in the stockade as punishment.
(Combat Casey I#9) - Casey left "Penny" to unload a truck full of c-rations but when he returned, "Penny" and the truck were gone. Casey captured a Chinese soldier and forced him to reveal where his friend was being confined. After saving "Penny." they learned the commandeered truck was being used to transport enemy ammunition. Using the c-ration cans, "Penny" designed makeshift grenades and they blew up the enemy ammunition dump. When they returned to Captain Stone and explained what they'd done, Stone considered the story unbelievable and threw them in the stockade.
(Combat Casey I#9/2) - "Penny" and Casey were caught by Communists while out catching butterflies. When the Communists didn't believe "Penny"'s story, he claimed they were after a plant to create "Formula X." The Communists collected the plant "Penny" identified, only to find it was poison ivy and they were left so swollen up that they couldn't use their guns. "Penny" and Casey delivered the enemy troops to Captain Stone.
(Combat Casey I#9/4) - Captain Stone sent Casey and "Penny" to discover why the Chinese were fighting unusually hard to defend White Horse Mountain. Caught by the Communists, they were made to work in a mine but "Penny" recognized firedamp, which could become an explosive gas and used it to engineer their escape, setting off an explosion as a distraction then capturing the Chinese officer.
(Combat I#11) - Casey and "Penny" destroyed a Chinese bridge across the Han River but the Chinese started building another during the night. Casey and "Penny" lit oil drums and hurled them at the new bridge, destroying it.
(Combat Casey I#10) - Casey and "Penny" were captured and tied to a tank so their allies wouldn't fire on the vehicle but the visiting Battle Brady fired a sharpshooter's shot which set the two men free and they dropped grenades inside the tank, killing the crew. Casey and Brady shook hands.
(Combat Casey I#10/4) - Sent by Captain Stone to clear out enemy-held farms, Casey and "Penny" used flamethrowers to take out enemy tanks and pillboxes but when they ran out of fuel, they took onions from one of the farms and used onion juice in their flamethrower to render their enemies helpless.
(Combat Casey I#11) - Captain Stone sent Casey and "Penny" to capture Kaesong Katie and found her about to be executed by her superiors for her failures. They rescued her but she took them prisoner to regain her standing. When they escaped her again, Katie was sentenced to death by firing squad.
(Combat Casey I#11/4) - Casey and "Penny" were caught and put in a POW camp but "Penny" obtained a grenade and released its gunpowder into a trail which he then lit and destroyed the camp's officers, enabling a camp breakout.
(Combat Casey I#12) - Casey and "Penny" went undercover in stolen uniforms and discovered the Communists had a massive tank. Stealing inside the vehicle, "Penny" sabotaged it so it would run over the enemy's own lines.
(Combat Casey I#12/2) - Casey was fighting on the front lines while "Penny" took charge of delivering supplies to him and the other soldiers.
(Combat Casey I#13) - Casey and "Penny" were sent to rescue captured U.S. soldiers but were caught themselves. In a POW camp, they discovered the four Manatelli brothers among the prisoners and the brothers used their acrobatics to spring a prison break. The escaped soldiers captured a truck full of explosives and used the dynamite to destroy their pursuers and an enemy tank then returned to their lines.
(Combat Casey I#13/4) - Casey and "Penny" defended farmers' livestock from Communist raiding parties by building a minefield just outside the farm.
(Combat Kelly I#17/3) - Casey and "Penny" befriended a bevy of beautiful South Korean women who were fleeing a Communist prison camp. Casey and "Penny" shared their water, food and extra clothing with the women and tended to their wounds. The women returned the favor by saving Casey and "Penny" from a Communist squad by beating the soldiers with rocks and clubs but afterward, still maintained they didn't know anything about violence.
(Combat Casey I#14) - While in a town to enjoy a weekend pass, Casey and "Penny" were captured by Comrade China and her soldiers so they could strip the duo of their uniforms and wear them to steal U.S. Army ammunition supplies. "Penny" seemed to assist Comrade China by giving advice to two colonels bound for North Korea but he actually tore their pants so that Military Police would intervene. When Comrade China asked "Penny" to identify a gas cannister, he claimed it was food so that she would open it. In the resulting confusion caused by the gas, Comrade China ordered her men to fire at Casey and "Penny" but they only hit each other. Casey and "Penny" got to safety and retrieved their lost uniforms but were then reported by MPs for wearing torn trousers.
(Combat Casey I#14/4) - Casey and "Penny" leaped on what they thought were two enemy troops but found they had attacked dummies planted by Kaesong Katie. Katie sent her soldiers to attack the duo and capture them alive. Katie wanted to restore her reputation by bringing them to Commissar Susang and sent "Penny" to deliver a note to the commissar but "Penny" added insults to her message and Susang's reply, tricking the two into fighting each other and decimating their forces. Casey and "Penny" used the opportunity to escape.
(Combat Casey I#12/4) - Kaesong Katie returned and took what she thought were "secret papers" from "Penny" to decipher the code but Pach-Hoo saved Casey and "Penny" with her pet lion Kwang and Kwang summoned a pack of lions to decimate Kaesong Katie's forces. The "secret papers" were a crossword puzzle "Penny" had been working on.
(Combat Casey I#15/2) - Combat Casey narrated how Australian soldiers joined the Arab Camel Corps in conquering Damascus during World War I.
(Combat Casey I#15/4) - Casey and "Penny" were caught by enemy troops. The South Korean woman Nita seemed to save them but was a double agent trying to lure them into a trap. Another double agent killed her then Casey and "Penny" lit blankets on fire to target the enemy base for aerial bombardment.
(Combat Casey I#16) - Casey and "Penny" were caught and placed in a concentration camp in North Korea. Placed in a pit, they dug out by expanding rat holes until they reached the river. Finding enemy sampans stocked with weapons, Casey and "Penny" made fiery bamboo spears and set the boats ablaze before returning home.
(Combat Casey I#16/4) - Combat Casey told the story of how, in World War I, the French soldiers Pierre and Gerard recruited buses and taxis to help supply reinforcements to the front and push back a German advance.
(Combat Casey I#17) - Red Poppy and her all-female army captured Casey and "Penny" and forced them to labor in her poppy fields to harvest opium for North Korea. When Poppy took the two men with her on a delivery to Communist guerrillas, Casey and "Penny" commandeered Poppy's wagon and set fires to guerrilla bases then took Poppy prisoner.
(Combat Casey I#17/2) - After hearing the story from British sailor Lynn himself, Combat Casey told the story of how, in World War I, the German soldier Otto helped Lynn escape a German prison then gave his life turning a submarine into a giant bomb to take out the German fleet at Zeebrugge.
(Combat Casey I#18/2) - September 1952. Casey and "Penny" investigated how messages were being smuggled into North Korea and discovered the Snake Lady of Sinyong was behind it, enwrapping her snakes with fake skins containing messages. The North Koreans prepared to hurl Casey and "Penny" into their snake pit but their jeep's emergency brake gave out and knocked them into their own snake pit, where the snakes killed the Snake Lady and her comrade.
(Combat Casey I#19) - Casey and "Penny" followed the Snake Lady's snakes from the snake pit as they went to South Korea. The snakes led them to the lair of Mokuei, who demanded they drive a truck full of explosives over a bridge to Seoul. Instead, Casey drove the truck of lit explosives into the cave where Mokuei's men were based. Mokuei tried to snuff the fuse but, distracted by Casey and "Penny," he failed and was killed in the explosion.
(Combat Casey I#18/4) - Combat Casey told a story of World War I in which soldiers Lynn, Maurice and Alonso were rescued from Germans by a US Marine. Finding a shipment of German dress helmets, they buried them on a road with the points sticking up, shredding the tires of a German convoy, which they destroyed using Molotov cocktails.
(Combat Casey I#19/4) - Combat Casey told the story of World War I officer Major Allen Hagsley. Hagsley was skeptical of his squad working alongside Captain Mike Duff's when Duff was much younger than he but the younger officer proved to have a sound head for tactics and they succeeded in clearing out German positions.
(Combat Casey I#20) - Casey and "Penny" helped helicopter pilot Lt. Baker deliver medical supplies to a MASH unit. When North Korean soldiers lit a fire to burn down the MASH, "Penny" used dry ice from the medical supplies to start a cloudburst, resulting in rain to squelch the fire.
(Combat Casey I#20/2) - After hearing the story of Captain Jacques Fontaine from Fontaine's son, Combat Casey related the story of how Captain Jacques Fontaine led one of the first tank charges through German trenches in World War I, evading anti-tank mines left for them. Fontaine died in battle with German tanks but the other tanks in his squad wiped out the enemy tanks.
(Combat Casey I#21) - Casey's outfit (the 2nd Infantry Division) was sent to clear out Communist forces from a Korean town. Villagers warned Casey that the Communists were holding their children hostage in the schoolhouse, bound and gagged. Under cover of night, Casey and "Penny" slipped into the school and smeared the children with beet juice. In the morning, the Communists feared the children had come down with a plague and fled the building, right into the arms of the U.S. forces.
(Combat Casey I#21/2) - Combat Casey narrated a tale of the U.S. 30th Division of World War I, the "Old Hickory Division." Casey told how the soldiers discovered the Germans had built a massive bomb shelter out of a river tunnel but the Old Hickory Division launched an attack on the tunnel, capturing many of the Germans with no place to run.
(Combat Casey I#22) - Arriving in Nanyang, Baker Company was aided by the townspeople, who sounded their sacred bell to warn them that Chinese forces had occupied the town. As punishment, the Chinese captured the bell and spirited it away as they withdrew, threatening to destroy it unless the people of Nanyang drove Baker Company from the town. Casey and "Penny" recaptured the bell and rang it to warn their forces of an enemy advance.
(Combat Casey I#23) - Behind enemy lines in North Korea, Casey and "Penny" liberated Korean civilians from a factory. The laborers sabotaged the weapons they were making before they left.
(Combat Casey I#23/2) - Combat Casey narrated how, when tanks arrived in World War I, the Germans tried to capture one for study by attaching it to a zeppelin but British and French soldiers knocked it free.
(Combat Casey I#24/2) - Combat Casey narrated the story of US Marine Captain Dix and his Devil Dogs in World War I. German officer Colonel von Kroner believed the US forces were inferior but Captain Dix led his men heroically. When they ran out of ammunition, they hurled their helmets as weapons.
(Combat Casey I#24/4) - Casey and "Penny" were about to be captured so they released a carrier pigeon. The Communists shot the pigeon down and gloated over outsmarting them but the pigeon was a decoy. "Penny" floated a distress message downriver in his canteen and reinforcements came to their rescue.
(Combat Casey I#25/4) - Combat Casey narrated a story from World War I. Seeing how armed German barges were defending bridges on the Marne, Dog Company blew up one bridge to crush the barges, leaving them free to cross on the remaining bridge.
(Combat Casey I#25/5) - While on sentry duty, Casey and "Penny" caught a soldier trying to steal their food supplies. A South Korean civilian confirmed local farmers were losing their crops to enemy soldiers. Casey and "Penny" had the farmer lead them to his farm and lay in waiting to observe the enemy's tactics. When Colonel Mung sent his men out to collect wagons full of crops, Casey, "Penny," Captain Stone and the rest of their company snuck inside the wagons. Once the wagons reached Colonel Mung, they leaped out and captured the Chinese.
(Combat Casey I#26) - Casey and "Penny" were trapped by enemy tanks. "Penny" ran an electrical current through barbed wire fences so that when the tanks drove over them, they would heat up the tanks until the crews surrendered.
(Combat Casey I#26/3) - Combat Casey narrated how World War I plane gunner Flash took a German pilot prisoner so the US could study the Germans' parachutes.
(Combat Casey I#27) - When confronted by a large enemy cannon, "Penny" befriended an eagle and sent it to drop dynamite on the enemy, wrecking the cannon and enabling Casey and the rest of Dog Company to advance and capture the position.
(Combat Casey I#27/2) - Combat Casey narrated the story of submarine Commander Daniel D. Dale in World War I. U-Boat skipper Bruno von Bruno vowed to sink Dale's submarine. He succeeded in capturing the submarine and seized the torpedoes, gloating that he would sink Dale's submarine with his own torpedoes but the torpedoes were defective and destroyed the U-Boat.
(Combat Casey I#28/2) - After an unsuccessful attempt at stealing enemy plans, Casey and "Penny" destroyed an enemy railroad bridge with grenades. The two men were able to hold their position at the end of the bridge, fighting off enemy soldiers and even an enemy tank, but were left suspended above the water on a single piece of bridge. They finally dived off the last piece and returned to base, where Captain Stone told them the Chinese had been planning to use that bridge for their next attack.
(Combat Casey I#28/3) - Casey recalled the adventures of Zippy and Wings, two early pilots who flew in World War I and used fancy barnstorming tricks to outfly their opponents.
(Combat Casey I#28/5) - Casey, "Penny" and Dog Company prevented Chinese officer Major Mong from establishing a machine gun nest atop a hill. Dog Company received a new member, Private Bobby Jackson, the younger brother of their officer Captain Jack Jackson. Bobby proved himself to Dog Company by capturing Major Mong single-handed, impressing Combat and Captain Jackson.
(Combat Casey I#29) - Casey promised "Penny" he'd try to use his brains instead of brawn to solve problems. When "Penny" was captured by the enemy, Casey tried to save him using his brains by tracking him but instead discovered the Chinese had dressed a chauffeur in "Penny"'s uniform to trick him. Casey went back to using brawn and fought his way through all the men guarding "Penny," saving his friend.
(Combat Casey I#29/3) - Combat Casey narrated how, in World War I, German soldiers destroyed a shipment of gas masks then bombarded US troops with gas, thinking they'd be easy prey, but Captain Dempsey and his men created makeshift masks out of blankets and defeated the Germans when they invaded their trenches.
(Combat Casey I#29/5) - Casey and "Penny" went into the field with "Buggsie" Bartek, a fellow member of Dog Company who had always wanted to be in the tank corps but failed the test at tank school because he froze up behind the controls. Buggsie helped Casey and "Penny" capture an enemy tank and used it to blast their way through enemy forces. Although Buggsie froze up again, they got back to their lines and Captain Rocke gave Buggsie a promotion.
(Combat Casey I#30) - Casey and "Penny" captured an enemy convoy, sabotaged all of the munitions aboard the trucks, then let the enemy recapture them. The sabotaged munitions destroyed the guns when they were fired, eliminating the artillery.
(Combat Casey I#30/2) - Chinese forces tried to punish Puchong by burning their rice fields but Casey and Dog Company saved the rice and helped the farmers drive the enemy away.
(Combat Casey I#30/4) - Combat Casey narrated how in World War I, Pee-Wee thought he had to prove he was a good soldier but simply by firing his weapon when his fellows were temporarily paralyzed, he proved he has sufficient courage.
(Combat Casey I#31) - Casey blasted a Chinese tank with a bazooka, leaving it inoperable. After the crew abandoned the vehicle, Casey and "Penny" searched inside for intelligence but wound up being forced to hole up inside as more enemy infantry arrived. The Communists tried to get rid of them by using a truck to shove the tank into the river but the tank rolled into their own supply bridge and destroyed it. Casey and "Penny" escaped the tank before it sank. The officer who ordered the truck to push the tank was executed for incompetence.
(Combat Casey I#31/3) - Combat Casey narrated how, in World War I, pilot Flip Furgeson was caught while looking for the Germans' Big Bertha. Fellow pilot Captain Birdy Bass came back to rescue Flip and when Flip marked the cannon's location, Birdy bombed it then scooped up Flip.
(Combat Casey I#31/5) - Dog Company was crossing a river and Captain Rocke ordered Casey and "Penny" to destroy the bridge but they discovered Communist troops had already been there and left explosive charges. Casey let the Communist explosives detonate then, when the Communists tried to cross over a dry riverbed, they blew up a dam, flooding the enemy with water.
(Combat Casey I#32) - After escaping a POW camp, Casey and "Penny" found Communist tanks being floated downriver on flatboats. "Penny" diverted the river, causing the boats to go over a waterfall.
(Combat Casey I#32/4) - Combat Casey narrated about when the Cavalry was retired in World War I, Sgt. O'Brian worked with his horse Cannonball as a pack animal. When he saw a German tank in his area, he rode against it and used his lasso to drag the tank into a mud hole.
(Combat Casey I#32/5) - Enemy troops planted mines to slow Dog Company's advance towards Chowju but "Penny" had the men put weather balloons on their feet, enabling them to walk across the minefields without setting them off.
(Combat Casey I#33) - Casey and "Penny" helped capture a Korean town but learned the Chinese had taken all of the town's livestock except for their sheep. When the Chinese returned to capture a flock of sheep, Combat and "Penny" wore sheepskins to hide amongst the flock and follow them to the Chinese camp, where they ambushed the Chinese.
(Combat Casey I#33/3) - Casey recalled the World War I exploits of the pilot Slader, who guided Captain Brandon down into German lines and strafed the German air hangars.
(Combat Casey I#33/5) - Casey and "Penny" were caught by the Chinese but escaped and warned their comrade Roanhorse using Apache smoke signals which he had taught them, allowing them to form an ambush on the enemy forces.
(Combat Casey I#34) - Casey was allowed to escape Kumchang so the Chinese army could set up booby traps for the US troops they were certain Casey would bring back with him but Casey was aware of the traps and brought reinforcements in so that the Chinese were trapped between Dog Company and the booby traps. The Chinese surrendered.
(Combat Casey I#34/2) - Chinese soldiers captured Casey and forced him to raise a US flag over Hill 888, thinking it would bring Lt. Kowalski's forces into a trap, but Casey hung the flag upside-down, warning the squad, who then defeated the Communist forces.
(Combat Casey I#34/3) - Combat Casey narrated how, during World War I, British pilot Cyril engaged German ace Hans von Knabe in battle. One of Hans' bullets knocked a piece off of Cyril's plane and the piece hit Hans in the head, causing him to crash his plane.
(Combat Casey I#34/5) - Casey and "Penny" accompanied a force of ROK soldiers led by Lt. Kim. They discovered North Korean soldiers under the command of Major Mung had built a fire-breathing dragon model to terrify the populace but Lt. Kim built an even bigger dragon to destroy the enemy prop.
(Battle I#61/5) - Casey and "Penny" stole some
important papers from the Chinese under the command of Major Mong.
Escaping, they gave the papers to a K-9 delivery dog, who brought
back reinforcements to save Casey and "Penny."
(Combat Casey I#22/2) - Casey visited West Berlin, Germany and met Gerda, who told him a story about World War I in which she helped American soldiers capture a castle. Casey related this story.
(Combat Casey I#27/5) - Following the end of the Korean War, Combat Casey and "Penny" joined the Military Police and returned to Korea to help combat Communist spies and saboteurs. While on patrol in their jeep, they saw two men boarding a Seoul-bound train to steal its goods. Casey pursued the thieves aboard the train and defeated them with his bare hands while "Penny" followed alongside in the jeep. In Seoul, Casey and "Penny" delivered the two thieves to the provost marshal, who was impressed at their work and asked them to provide police protection to Sum Kim, a merchant whose supplies were coming from Kaesong. The provost marshal gave them a jeep with a .50 caliber machine gun to assist them. The convoy of supplies encountered a roadblock placed by Communist agents but the machine gun helped drive them off and the supplies were successfully delivered. Sum Kim asked for their help repeatedly over the following weeks and each time, the supplies were safely delivered. The detail came to an end when the provost marshal revealed there were a lot of rifles and ammunition being smuggled into Seoul. On their final trip with Sum Kim's goods, Casey and "Penny" discovered he had been smuggling guns and ammunition for the Communists within his crates the entire time. Casey and "Penny" arrested Sum Kim and brought him back to Seoul to be imprisoned.
(Battle I#64/3) - Casey related a story from World War I about how US soldiers bested German juggernaut tanks by hiding in their trenches as the tanks went over then attacked the enemy from the rear.
Comments: Created by Hank Chapman and Robert Q. Sale.
Casey had just the one adventure as a Military Policeman (Combat Casey I#27/5) but it's the most recent story in which he served as anything other than a floating head narrator.
In Combat Kelly I#16, Cookie Novak read an issue of Combat Casey and wished he was a hero like him. Since the villain Panther Lady appeared in both Combat Kelly and Combat Casey, they do seem to share continuity so it would appear that Combat Casey's adventures were licensed for Marvel Comics, much like other denizens of Earth-616.
There were apparently a few Combat Casey stories in the backlog when Marvel temporarily suspended publishing in 1957. When they resumed, a story which appears to have been a Combat Casey adventure was published in Marines in Battle I#25 with some art changes to remove Casey and "Penny"'s distinctive features. Check out Lennie for more information.
In War Combat I#5, "Penny" and Casey were supposed to be meeting for the first time but later stories would establish them as World War II allies. In several of the stories where Casey and "Penny" are supposed to be fighting the Japanese, you can clearly see the "Japanese" were wearing Chinese uniforms - suggesting many of the World War II stories were originally supposed to be Korean War stories.
Stories narrated by Combat Casey usually just pasted a headshot of his face on the first page. Combat Casey I#22/2 is a rare instance where Casey appears in a panel of the story, interacting with one of the characters. Casey says this event happened "a few months ago," meaning it must be set after the Korean War.
The name of Casey and "Penny"'s company was constantly changing but usually it was Dog Company.
In later stories, Casey's hair was colored brown instead of red in interior stories but remained red on the covers.
This profile was completed on
01/07/2026 but its publication was delayed, as it was intended for the
Appendix's 25th anniversary celebratory event.
Profile by Prime Eternal.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Combat Casey should not be confused with:
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Combat Casey I#34, page 1 (main)
Combat Casey I#25, cover (face)
Combat Casey I#33/2, page 1, panel 1 (alternate helmet)
Combat Casey I#8, cover (in action)
Combat Casey I#27/5, page 2, panel 3 (Military Policeman)
Appearances:
War Combat I#5/1,3 (November, 1952) - Hank Chapman (writer), Robert Q.
Sale (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat I#7/1,3 (December, 1952) - Hank Chapman (writer), Robert Q. Sale
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat I#8 (January, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Robert Q. Sale
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#6/1,3 (January, 1953) - unidentified writer, Robert Q.
Sale (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat I#9 (February, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Robert Q. Sale
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat I#10 (March, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Robert Q. Sale
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#7-9 (March-April, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Robert
Q. Sale (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat I#11 (April, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Robert Q. Sale
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#10 (June, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Robert Q. Sale
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#10/4 (June, 1953) - unidentified writer, Robert Q. Sale
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#11-12 (August-October, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer),
Robert Q. Sale (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#13 (December, 1953) - unidentified writer, Robert Q. Sale
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#13 (December, 1953) - unidentified writer, Bill Benulis
(penciler), Jack Abel (inker), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly I#17/3 (December, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Robert Q.
Sale (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#14 (February, 1954) - Hank Chapman (writer), Robert Q.
Sale (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#15-28 (April, 1954-June, 1956) - unidentified writer,
Robert Q. Sale (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#29-31 (August, 1956-January, 1957) - unidentified writer,
Bob Powell (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#32/1,2,5 (March, 1957) - unidentified writer, Jay Scott
Pike (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#32/4 (March, 1957) - unidentified writer, Dick Ayers
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#33 (May, 1957) - unidentified writer, Jay Scott Pike
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#34 (July, 1957) - unidentified writer, Jay Scott Pike
(penciler), John Severin (inker), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#34/2,5 (July, 1957) - unidentified writer, Jay Scott Pike
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#34/3 (July, 1957) - unidentified writer, Bob Powell
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Battle I#61/5 (December, 1958) - unidentified writer, Jay Scott Pike
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Battle I#64/3 (June, 1959) - unidentified writer, Jay Scott Pike
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
First posted: 09/20/2026
Last updated:
01/07/2026
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