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Battle Action, 2022, story page 1 by Chris Burnham

Artists: Chris Burnham (Penciller) , Chris Burnham (Inker) , Garth Ennis (Writer)

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Battle Action, 2022, story page 1 by Chris Burnham Comic Art

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Introduction to Crazy Keller (Battle Action page 28)

Published story page 1

Published story page 2 (original splash art not in my collection)

Published story page 3 (original splash page not in my collection)

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Title:	Battle Action, 2022, story page 1 by Chris Burnham
Artist:	Chris Burnham (Penciller)
Artist:	Chris Burnham (Inker)
Artist:	Garth Ennis (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	203
Likes on CAF:	0 1
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Added to Site:	10/23/2022
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Description

"Crazy Keller" by Garth Ennis. The pages are the artist's inks over his blue lines.

Introduction:
"Crazy Keller...Created by Alan Hebden and Eric Bradbury"

"Captain 'Crazy' Keller has a finger in every black market pie in the European Theatre of Operations. His urge to make a dishonest buck takes him to the very heart of the action, running rings around Germans and Americans alike - with the aid of his long-suffering assistant Corporal 'Aerial' Arkin, and their extremely distinctive and heavily armed jeep, Scoot 4 (a replacement for the late, lamented Scoot 3). Yet, never let it be said that Keller doesn't do his bit for the war effort, as the Germany army often finds out to its cost."

"Crazy Keller was Alan Hebden's second go at an archetype he first tackled with the better-remembered Major Eazy, the slightly unbalanced but effective roguish loner, who fights the war in his own way at his own pace. But where Eazy was an anachronism, a very obviously American character inspired by the '60s & 70's films of Clint Eastwood and James Coburn, but shoehorned into the British army anyway, Keller was a Yank from the get-go (his cinematic roots most likely being Donald Sutherland's performance in MASH and Kelly's Heroes). He is therefore arguably more successful, at least in narrative - not commercial - terms."

Story page 1 dialogue:

"GERMANY, APRIL 1945"
"I got you this time, Keller...!"
"Captain Kermit Keller and Corporal 'Aerial' Arkin of the U.S. Army Signal Corps meet with their commanding officer, Colonel Oswald Lee."
Lee: "I got you so good I can feel it in my pants. Every crooked operation...every black market deal you ever pulled...with the P.X., the Navy, the Limeys, the French, the KRAUTS...
Colonel Lee: "I got it all right here. And the only reason you two ain't in the stockade RIGHT NOW--"
Crazy Keller: "Is you can't tie me to any of it?"
Lee: "True...true...you're careful that way, ain't you? You got all the right people greased, you got enough saps willin' to take the fall so the provost marshal's office can't touch you...But what they can do, Keller, on my SAY-SO, is seize every asset in this file--which means after three long years of grifting, you go home without a goddamned cent to your name...!"
Keller: "I got a feeling there's an UNLESS comin'."
Lee: "Well give the man a cee-gar! Let's see if there's a way this oh-so-unfortunate file can end up in my wastebasket. Let's see if there ain't a little chore you boys can do for me...somewhere in the region of...is it BEELITZ?"
Corporal 'Aerial' Arkin: "Beelitz is still behind the German lines, Colonel..."

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