Star-Spangled War Stories was the title of a DC Comics

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 comic book

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 series that featured war

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-themed characters and stories. Among the features published in this series were writer-editor Robert Kanigher

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 and artist Jerry Grandenetti

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's "Mlle. Marie

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," about a World War II

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 French Resistance

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 fighter, debuting in #84 (Aug. 1959); "The War that Time Forgot

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," "Enemy Ace

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," and "the Unknown Soldier

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Publication history

Initially, Star Spangled War Stories was a retitling of Star-Spangled Comics

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, and continued the numbering of its predecessor with #131. That lasted until #133, when DC rebooted the numbering with issue #3 — even though there had already been three issues before that. The end result was that there are two separate comics numbered as Star Spangled War Stories #132 — one issued in 1952 and one issued in 1967.

Star-Spangled War Stories ran for over 200 issues from 1952 to 1977. The series ended with issue #204. With #205, the numbering resumed under the title of The Unknown Soldier.

Creators associated with Star Spangled War Stories

Writers who worked on Star-Spangled War Stories include Kanigher (its editor) and David Micheline, Ed Herron, Bill Finger

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, and Bob Haney

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. Among the artists who contributed were Neal Adams

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, Ross Andru

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, Gene Colan

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, Mort Drucker, Mike Esposito

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, Russ Heath

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, Carmine Infantino

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, Bernard Krigstein

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, Joe Kubert

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, Leonard Starr

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, and Curt Swan

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External links

• Star Spangled War Stories covers at Comicvine