''Tales of the Green Beret'' is an American
comic strip created by the nonfiction author
Robin Moore
Robert Lowell Moore Jr. (October 31, 1925 – February 21, 2008) was an American writer who wrote '' The Green Berets'', '' The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy'', and with Xaviera Hollander and ...
and artist
Joe Kubert
Joseph Kubert (; September 18, 1926 – August 12, 2012) was a Polish-born American comic book artist, art teacher, and founder of The Kubert School. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman. He is also kno ...
. Published in the 1960s, its
Vietnam War
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setting was concurrent with the controversial real-life conflict.
Publication history
''Tales of the Green Beret'', by nonfiction author
Robin Moore
Robert Lowell Moore Jr. (October 31, 1925 – February 21, 2008) was an American writer who wrote '' The Green Berets'', '' The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy'', and with Xaviera Hollander and ...
and established
DC Comics
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DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with thei ...
war-comics
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History American war comics
Shortly after the birth of the modern comic book in the mid- to late 1930s, comics publishers began incl ...
artist
Joe Kubert
Joseph Kubert (; September 18, 1926 – August 12, 2012) was a Polish-born American comic book artist, art teacher, and founder of The Kubert School. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman. He is also kno ...
, began as a
daily strip
A daily strip is a newspaper comic strip format, appearing on weekdays, Monday through Saturday, as contrasted with a Sunday strip, which typically only appears on Sundays.
Bud Fisher's ''Mutt and Jeff'' is commonly regarded as the first daily c ...
, running for 72 numbered strips starting September 20, 1965. The following year it returned daily and Sunday, beginning April 4, 1966, with scripts by Howard Liss. There were eight Kubert stories:
* 1965: ''Viet Cong Cowboy''
* 1966: ''Kidnap Ksor Tonn'', ''Sucker Bait'', ''Chris Kidnapped'', ''Project Oilspot''
* 1967: ''Freedom Flight'', ''The Syndicate'', ''Prince Synok''
Kubert left the strip in January 1968. His last Sunday was January 7, and his last daily was January 10. The strip continued until July 21, 1968 with art by
John Celardo and writing by Robin Moore.
The first story was reprinted in a
Signet Books
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paperback
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from The
New American Library
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; most of the strip has been reprinted in three books from
Blackthorne
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and in two magazines from
Dragon Lady Press
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. Falling between the two reprint sets is most of May 1967. The last few Kubert strips, of December 31, 1967 and later, have not been reprinted, nor have any of the Celardo strips.
''Tales of the Green Beret'' continued to be published as an
American comic book by
Dell Publishing from 1967 to 1969.
See also
*
United States Army Special Forces in popular culture
Members of the U.S. Army Special Forces will emphatically assert that the "Green Beret" is a hat and not the man who wears it. Nevertheless, for a time in the 1960s the Green Berets and the men who wore them became a national fad emerging in a ...
References
External links
Interview with Joe Kubert about this comic strip''Tales of the Green Berets'' icat
Don Markstein's ToonopediaArchived icat
Don Markstein's ToonopediaArchivedform the original on September 23, 2015.
American comic strips
1965 comics debuts
1968 comics endings
Comics set during the Vietnam War
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