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''Blazing Combat'' was an American war-comics magazine published by Warren Publishing from 1965 to 1966. Written and edited by Archie Goodwin, with artwork by such industry notables as Gene Colan, Frank Frazetta, John Severin, Alex Toth, and Wally Wood, it featured war stories in both contemporary and period settings, unified by a humanistic theme of the personal costs of war, rather than by traditional men's adventure motifs. ==Publication history== Following the success of Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazine ''Creepy'' in 1964, publisher James Warren expanded into war fiction the following year with the short-lived ''Blazing Combat''. The black-and-white, 64-page ''Blazing Combat'' ran four quarterly issues, cover-dated October 1965 to July 1966, and, like ''Creepy'', carried a 35-cent cover price.〔(''Blazing Combat'' ) at Grand Comics Database〕 Warren was inspired by the humanistic drama in editor Harvey Kurtzman's EC Comics titles ''Frontline Combat'' (1951-1954) and ''Two-Fisted Tales'' (1950-1955), saying in 1999, "I thought what Harvey had done for (publisher ) Bill Gaines should have separated in some way from the EC horror comics. Harvey's early work was the inspiration for ''Blazing Combat''. I told Harvey ''Blazing Combat'' editorial was not going to be pro-war or blood and guts. It was going to be anti-war...."〔 Additional (WebCitation archive )〕 Kurtzman, by this time editor of Warren's satirical magazine ''Help!'', would serve as consultant on the new magazine, which would be edited by fellow Warren staffer Archie Goodwin. Goodwin wrote all but one of the series' 29 stories, co-writing two with each story's respective artist. The generally six- to eight-page tales were illustrated by such EC war-story veterans as John Severin, Wally Wood — two of the primary ''Frontline Combat'' contributors — George Evans, Russ Heath, and Alex Toth, as well as by EC horror/sci-fi artists Reed Crandall and Joe Orlando. Other illustrators included Gene Colan, Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, and Angelo Torres. All four covers were paintings by Frank Frazetta.〔 While most stories took place during World War II, the settings ranged from the Persian Wars to the present-day. Some dealt with historical figures, such as American Revolutionary War general Benedict Arnold and his pre-traitorous victory at the Battle of Saratoga (issue #2, Jan. 1966), while "Foragers" (issue #3, April 1966) focused on a fictitious soldier in General William T. Sherman's devastating March to the Sea during the American Civil War. "Holding Action" (issue #2), set on the last day of the Korean War, ended with a gung-ho young soldier, unwilling to quit, being escorted over his protests into a medical vehicle. The final panel leaves ambiguous whether the trauma will be temporary or lasting. The most controversial stories were set during the contemporary Vietnam War, particularly "Landscape" (issue #2), which follows the thoughts of a Vietnamese peasant rice-farmer devoid of ideology, who nonetheless becomes a civilian casualty. Warren said the story caused key distributors to stop selling the title.〔 Additional (WebCitation archive ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blazing Combat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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