Captain Savage and his Battlefield Raiders

Captain Savage and his Leatherneck Raiders
The cover to Captain Savage and his Leatherneck Raiders #1, art by Dick Ayers and Syd Shores.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Publication date	1968
No. of issues	19
Main character(s)	Captain Savage Leatherneck Raiders
Creative team
Created by	Gary Friedrich Dick Ayers
Written by	Gary Friedrich Arnold Drake Archie Goodwin
Artist(s)	Dick Ayers
Penciller(s)	Dick Ayers Don Heck
Inker(s)	Sydney 'Syd' Shores John Powers Severin
Letterer(s)	Art 'Artie' Simek Gaspar Saladino Irving 'Irv' Watanabe Herb Cooper Sam Rosen Jean Izzo
Colorist(s)	Several uncredited
Editor(s)	Stan Lee

Captain Savage and his Leatherneck Raiders is a World War II comic book published by Marvel Comics. The series lasted for nineteen issues, from January 1968 to March 1970. By issue 9 the name was switched to Captain Savage and his Battlefield Raiders. Created by Gary Friedrich and Dick Ayers book was a spin-off of the series Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos which they wrote at the time. The series was launched when Marvel suddenly received the ability to publish more titles than they had previously due to an embargo.

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The series focuses on the characters of the elite Marine Corps team the Leatherneck Raiders and their lives in the Pacific theater of World War II.

Sales for the series were decent and a proposal to have a Captain Savage of the Silent Service series as a follow up was made, with Savage as a submarine commander, but it was not taken up. Pierre Comtois, the author of the book "Marvel Comics in the 1970s" states that the series was an early experiment from Marvel before they realized that the superhero genre would be the one to dominate the comics market in the foreable future. Comtois praised Ayers artwork and described the diabloge as "smooth and natural sounding", he also stated that the plot generally moved forward properly without leaving plot threads hanging. Comtois hypothesised that the series was cancelled due to changing societal norms, such as anti-war sentiment, something which affected many war comics at the time.