Star Spangled War Stories
Star-Spangled War Stories was the title of a DC Comics comic book series that featured war-themed characters and stories. Among the features published in this series were writer-editor Robert Kanigher and artist Jerry Grandenetti's "Mlle. Marie," about a World War II French Resistance fighter, debuting in #84 (Aug. 1959); "The War that Time Forgot," "Enemy Ace," and "the Unknown Soldier."
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