Star Spangled War Stories

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Star-Spangled War Stories was the title of a DC Comics comic book series that featured war-themed characters and stories. It was a retitling of Star-Spangled Comics, and originally continued the same numbering. It ran for over 200 issues from 1952 to 1977. Among the features published in this series were writer-editor Robert Kanigher and artist Jerry Grandenetti's "Mlle. Marie", about a World War II French Resistance fighter, debuting in #84 (Aug. 1959); "The War that Time Forgot", "Enemy Ace", and "the Unknown Soldier".

The series ended with issue #204. With #205, the numbering resumed under the title of The Unknown Soldier.

Writers who worked on Star-Spangled War Stories include Kanigher (its editor) and David Micheline, Ed Herron, Bill Finger, and Bob Haney. Among the artists who contributed were Neal Adams, Ross Andru, Gene Colan, Mort Drucker, Mike Esposito, Russ Heath, Carmine Infantino, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Kubert, Leonard Starr, and Curt Swan.

[edit] Awards

The series won the 1969 Alley Award for "Best War Title".