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Brian Floyd
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AWE-SOME!!!
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Michael Arndt
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Great commission JB. Love the detail (as usual) especially on the Nazi Robots. Captain America is in great hands when you deal with him.
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Thorsten Brochhaus
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Lots of detail. I like it, even though it would be illegal in germany.
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John Byrne
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Lots of detail. I like it, even though it would be illegal
in germany.
•••
Well, just the opposite at the time this piece would
have taken place!
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Mike Norris
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What a great shot. Due to the size of my monitor is was a "slow" reveil. First Cap and the Skull. Then the robots and finaly the combat happy joes of Easy. Very much a surprise.
Heck I think I even know the names of all the Easy guys shown.
Edited by Mike Norris on 30 August 2007 at 4:46am
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Jose Antonio Colomer Perez
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Why in the copyright only appears Dc Comics and something like "easy" what's "easy"?and what happen with the copyright of "Captain America"?
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John Byrne
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Strangely enough, the first thing that struck me was that I'd forgotten that there were African Americans in Easy. (in Sgt Rock's Easy Company that is.) •• For those unfamiliar with this tawdry bit of American history, our fighting forces were not integrated until after WW2. But both DC and Marvel went for "political correctness" (tho the term did not then exist) by having a Black soldier in Easy, and in the Howling Commandoes. (Stan tried to place some kind of historical context into it by having Gabe Jones, as the "company bugler", be more of a "mascot" than an equal with the other Howlers. Not the best choice, and mostly forgotten as soon as possible.) DC tried for a slightly more "realistic" approach with their "Gravedigger" character. Curiously, outside comics, it was the non-integration of the Army that shot one of the biggest holes in the whole Roswell nonsense. One of the "witnesses" who claimed to have seen alien bodies in the possession of the military also claimed to have been "escorted" off the base by a Black sergeant -- but this would have been before the forces were integrated. It is worth remembering that it was the intergration of the armed forces, never exactly a bastion of liberalism, that struck some of the strongest blows for civil rights, as White soldiers found themselves forced to served and fight alongside Black soldiers, and experienced first hand that Negroes (to use the appropriate term of the time) were, after all, men like them. And in many cases, brave and even heroic men. White soldiers brought those experiences home (especially after serving in Korea) and began to see, really for the first time for many of them, the inequities infecting our society.
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John Byrne
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Why in the copyright only appears Dc Comics and something like "easy" what's "easy"?and what happen with the copyright of "Captain America"?•• "Easy Co." is Easy Company, Sergeant Rock and his men. Look over on the right side of the piece for the other appropriate copyright notation.
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John Byrne
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Apologies JB, there was also an issue of Wonder Woman. •• You're right!!
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John Byrne
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Heck I think I even know the names of all the Easy guys shown. •• Puts you ahead of me! I had to Google them to be sure.
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Ted Pugliese
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This is a great piece. I love it!
As a reference, it is important to note that Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Baseball before it was broken in the Army. Serves to illustrate the importance of what he did, I think.
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John Byrne
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Never take an ounce away from that! However, Robinson's achievement had very little impact on the "real world". People could go to baseball games and then go home and forget about "The Problem". As noted above, it was ironic that it was something as conservative and stuck in its ways as the military that did so much more good in this cause.
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