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SOLD Battle Action (281): 20 September 1980; Fighting Mann

Artists: Cam Kennedy (All) , T. Skomski (Letterer) , Alan Hebden (Writer)

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SOLD Battle Action (281): 20 September 1980; Fighting Mann Comic Art

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Title:	SOLD Battle Action (281): 20 September 1980; Fighting Mann
Artist:	Cam Kennedy (All)
Artist:	T. Skomski (Letterer)
Artist:	Alan Hebden (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Title Page
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Added to Site:	7/5/2017
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"Call me SIR or you just might not have mouth left!"

Superb macho military action in Battle's ground-breaking Vietnam strip, as Walter Mann combs SE Asia for his missing son, and stumbles on a conspiracy to end the war in the worst way possible.

Was Fighting Mann one of the very first strips to be set in Vietnam? The action is in 1967, but the war had only ended 7 years or so before 1980. Radical stuff for a boy's comic, showing Battle's determination to be a more hard-edged and contemporary comic.

Cam Kennedy's work is looser (3 pages a week for umpteen episodes) than his later work for 2000AD, but his mastery of military men and equipment in action was unmatched. Note the whiteout censoring the shrunken head around Captain Fenner's neck.

Ink and whiteout on cartridge paper (cropped and mounted on thin white paper)
Mount: 18" x 15"
Image: 17.5" x 13.5"

Letters: T. Skomski
Script: Alan Hebden

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