Jungle War Stories was a

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first published in 1962. It was the first American

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to cover the

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. Though the cover of the first issue read "The Jungles of Africa and Asia Have Become Flaming Battlegrounds," only Vietnam was covered.

Characters

The stories involved the adventures of three American

Korean War , date = {{Ubl, 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 (''de facto'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950, month2=7, day2=27, year2=1953), 25 June 1950 – present (''de jure'')({{Age in years, months, weeks a ...

veterans, pilot Captain Duke Larsen, Sergeant "Cactus" Kane of the

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(who wore an ARVN Ranger Beret), and "

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" Mike Williams (who wore a bush hat) that trained and fought with the

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. Each issue featured a non fiction page about the war in Vietnam.

Transformation

Issue #12 in July 1965 changed its title to ''Guerilla War''; the comic lasting until issue #14 in March 1966. In January 1967 Dell began publishing ''

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'' that lasted five issues to 1969.

References

External links

Jungle War Stories
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