Well, clearly we’re not going to hit on all of the strange, wacky war stories told in comics in one article. There was, after all, an actual comic book called Weird War Tales, which ran for more than ten years from DC Comics. Still, a day to celebrate our own veterans seemed like the perfect opportunity to look back at some of the highlights of that and other comics where, let’s face it, sometimes some pretty strange things happen during war time.And while most of Marvel’s war heroes were pretty normal and human, we’re sure there are some out there that we’ve missed. Please, by all means, chime in in the comments.
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The Primate PlatoonSo this was a group of bad guys–Nazi gorillas, to be exact. And if that’s not enough to send you running for the back issue bins, then I don’t know what is.As an extra added bonus, Julius, one of the gorillas in question, later appeared in the brilliant Brian Azzarello/Cliff Chiang story Dr. 13: Architecture and Morality.
