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14 July 2009, 04:05 PM
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Forum Ace of Aces
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Hi Southside Bucky,
Wow! Thanks for saving me the trouble of posting those!! The cover of Weird War Tales No. 17, with the celestial skeleton figure gripping a Spad fuselage, is definitely George Evans - as is the associated story within. One of my all-time favorite stories, just because Evans drew it. His aircraft were more detailed and accurate than Kubert's. Kubert may have used some of George's early work for inspiration, but he has said that he used a lot of reference material from Russ Heath, a superb artist who could also draw accurate WWI aircraft. John Severin was another... Greg
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14 July 2009, 04:56 PM
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 Oh no! Poor Schatzi!! Well, I'm intrigued. What happens to him and his pilot? Are they really KIA????  FliegerJG1
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14 July 2009, 08:17 PM
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Hi FliegerJF1,
Well, to answer your question; yes, poor Schatzi falls to his death in that issue. "His" pilot (the comic's hero) Hans von Hammer, isn't killed, but he's so upset by little Schatzi's death that he shoots down all six Spads that oppose him in that dogfight!!  Greg
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14 July 2009, 08:44 PM
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[QUOTE=Willi Von Klugerman;
Thats all I know, anybody know of any WWI comics of both air combat and ground combat?[/QUOTE] There was once an edition of Sgt. Fury, in the 1970's, wherein Sgt.Fury was told of his father's WW1 involvement as a pilot in the RFC (Sopwith Pups). The story was very well written and illustrated. I remember Enemy Ace as one of my favorites. 
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14 July 2009, 10:10 PM
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You mean this one, Eric Petras?
 The art on the cover and interior was all by John Severin, who knows WWI airplanes pretty well. Unusually, instead of the usual Fokker Tripes and D.VII's, the bad Baron and his buddies of the Flying Circus were depicted flying Halberstadt D-types and Albatros D.II's! Here's the dastardly Baron himself, and Sgt. Fury's Dad, who flies a Sopwith Pup: 
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