Captain Willy Schultz

Captain Willy Schultz
Fightin' Army #76 (Oct. 1967). Cover art by Rocke Mastroserio. (Note misspelling of "Schultz" on the cover.)
Publication information
Publisher	Charlton Comics
First appearance	Fightin' Army #76 (Oct. 1967)
Created by	Will Franz (writer) Sam Glanzman (artist)
In-story information
Team affiliations	U.S. Army, German Army, British Army, Italian resistance movement, Office of Strategic Services

Captain Willy Schultz is a fictional comic-book soldier, a German-American U.S. Army captain during World War II, who after being falsely accused and convicted of murder, escapes and blends into the German Army while seeking a way to clear his name and retain his Allied allegiance. Created by writer Will Franz and artist Sam Glanzman, the character starred in the feature "The Lonely War of Willy Schultz", which debuted in Charlton Comics' Fightin' Army #76 (cover-dated Oct. 1967).

The Willy Schultz storyline was a departure from most other combat features of this time, with its conflicted hero caught between loyalties. Writer Franz opposed the American war in Vietnam, and the Schultz character reflected the divisiveness of the era.

Following the debut of his feature "The Lonely War of Willy Schultz" in the Charlton Comics war comics anthology Fightin' Army #76 (cover-dated Oct. 1967), Captain Willy Schultz continued in that series through issue #92 (July 1970), except in issue #81 (Sept. 1968).

The feature was reprinted in Fightin' Army #141 (Oct. 1979) and #150 (Mar. 1981), as well as in the Charlton series Attack #20 (Feb. 1980), Battlefield Action #68 (Apr. 1981), and Captain Willy Schultz #76-77 (Oct. 1985 - Jan. 1986).

In 1999 and 2000, Avalon Communications collected the feature in the four-issue series The Lonely War of Capt. Willy Schultz, and reprinted another Willy Schultz story in its one-shot Star Combat Tales #1 (Oct. 18, 2000).