| Battlefields | |
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Cover of The Complete Battlefields Volume 1 |
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| Created by | Garth Ennis |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Dynamite Entertainment |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Title(s) | Night Witches Dear Billy Tankies |
| Formats | Original material for the series has been published as a set of limited series. |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | World War II |
| Publication date | November 2008 – July 2009 |
| Number of issues | 9 (3 issues for each title) |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Garth Ennis |
| Artist(s) | Russ Braun Peter Snejbjerg Carlos Ezquerra |
| Colorist(s) | Tony Avina Rob Steen |
| Creator(s) | Garth Ennis |
| Reprints | |
| Collected editions | |
| The Complete Battlefields Volume 1 | ISBN 160690079X |
| Night Witches | ISBN 1606900285 |
| Dear Billy | ISBN 1606900757 |
| Tankies | ISBN 1606900579 |
Battlefields is a comic book metaseries written by Garth Ennis, comprising three mini-series, each illustrated by a different artist and published by Dynamite Entertainment.[1]
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The series was announced at the 2008 Philadelphia Wizardworld.[2][3]
The series is divided into three self-contained mini-series of three issues, all of which are set during World War II. The first mini-series, with artist Russell Braun, titled The Night Witches is set on the Eastern front and concerns a women-only Soviet bomber regiment.[1][4] The second series, with artist Peter Snejbjerg, titled Dear Billy concerns a British nurse, who had survived rape and attempted execution by Japanese soldiers in Singapore, and her relationship with a decorated flying ace.[5][6] The third series will be Tankies with artist Carlos Ezquerra, and is about an inexperienced British tank crew of Londoners in a Churchill Tank led by a Geordie veteran as they attempt to catch up with their company, enduring attacks by Nazi Tiger tanks as the Battle of Normandy rages on.[7][8]
Ennis has recently announced in the final issue that a second series of Battlefields is to be published in 2010 with a similar format, with two storylines being sequels to Night Witches and Tankies. The other, Happy Valley, is also the first of these to be published, with art by P. J. Holden.[9][10]
The individual series will be collected into individual trade paperbacks and then all three will be collected into a single hardcover volume: