Blazing Combat
| Blazing Combat | |
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Blazing Combat #3 (April 1966).
Cover art by Frank Frazetta |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Warren Publishing |
| Schedule | Quarterly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre |
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| Publication date(s) | October 1965 to July 1966 |
| No. of issues | 4 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Archie Goodwin |
| Artist(s) |
Reed Crandall, Gene Colan Frank Frazetta, Russ Heath Joe Orlando, John Severin Angelo Torres, Alex Toth Al Williamson, Wally Wood |
Blazing Combat was an American war-comics magazine published by Warren Publishing from 1965 to 1966. Written and edited by Archie Goodwin, with artwork by such industry notables as Gene Colan, Frank Frazetta, John Severin, Alex Toth, and Wally Wood, it featured war stories in both contemporary and period settings, unified by a humanistic theme of the personal costs of war, rather than by traditional men's adventure motifs.
Following the success of Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazine Creepy in 1964, publisher James Warren expanded into war fiction the following year with the short-lived Blazing Combat. The black-and-white, 64-page Blazing Combat ran four quarterly issues, cover-dated October 1965 to July 1966, and, like Creepy, carried a 35-cent cover price.
Warren was inspired by the humanistic drama in editor Harvey Kurtzman's EC Comics titles Frontline Combat (1951-1954) and Two-Fisted Tales (1950-1955), saying in 1999, "I thought what Harvey had done for [EC publisher] Bill Gaines should have separated in some way from the EC horror comics. Harvey's early work was the inspiration for Blazing Combat. I told Harvey Blazing Combat editorial was not going to be pro-war or blood and guts. It was going to be anti-war...."
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