Our Army at War #209, page 4 (1969)

Rock and Easy Co take on a Nazi horde in this half-splash from 1969. The bottom half of this page reminds me of the commercial art Russ drew sometime in the 60s that became familiar bits of Americana after gracing the back covers of countless comic books through the early 1970s. Advertisements for toy soldier sets, they depicted Roman and Revolutionary War battle scenes. As Russ described in a 2000s interview, "I got fifty bucks for those two separate pages. A lot of people didn't know I did them because (the client) didn't want them signed. I did have a small "RH" on the lower left-hand corner of the Revolutionary soldiers and I don't remember about the Roman soldiers. Then [customers] would blame me [when the actual toys were not as depicted]; I'd never seen the damned things, because they're like a bas relief or whatever they call it. They're not fully formed, not three dimensional. It would be flat things that were shaped a little and the kids felt gypped and they figured that it was my fault."