looking for an old Comic or two

[iranon]

Hi, I'm hoping you can help me.

I'd like to find a comic or two I remember from my childhood. It was 75 - 77.

One plot centered around two Air Aces from WW1, A war weary German Ace that was sick of killing, and an American that liked it immensely.


Another plot centered around a medieval peasant breaking into a basement that is really an ancient department store. trying out a contraption that really is a bicycle. not really sure how better to describe it.

If you know what I'm talking about please let me know :)

[MWGallaher]

The WWI story sounds like it was probably an issue of DC Comics' Men Of War. That was where Enemy Ace, Hans von Hammer, German pilot, was featured during the years you mentioned.
Browse here and see if you recognize a cover. (http://www.comics.org/covers.lasso?SeriesID=2379)
Either story could also have been in Weird War Tales (http://www.comics.org/covers.lasso?SeriesID=1983), so you might want to see if any of those covers looks familiar. "Enemy Ace" wasn't featured in that, but it had some standalone WWI stories about air warfare.

[T GUy]

One plot centered around two Air Aces from WW1, A war weary German Ace that was sick of killing, and an American that liked it immensely.

MWG may well be right, but there's also Star Spangled War Stories with the three-parter of Von Hammer vs. Steve Savage, starting in this issue. (http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=27455)

Was the American Ace wearing a furry-trimmed jacket and a cowboy hat? Did he say 'I'm the gun'? every so often.

an American that liked it immensely

If it is Steve Savage, this isn't wholly accurate; it's more like it's the only thing he is any good at.

[Kirk G]

It's funny.
The description of the soldier breaking into a basement of a department store reminds me of the classic Twilight Zone episode where Charles Bronson is a war-weiry soldier after WWIII and Elizabeth Montgomery is a solder from the other side who doesn't speak. After many tense moments and distrust, they come to trust each other and walk off hand in hand in the rubble of the destroyed city... a modern day Adam and Eve.

However, this was never a comic book. It was just one of the better written parables that showed up in Rod Serlings' classic anthology series.

[iranon]

Wow, great response time guys thanks!!

MWG, the weird war tales #43 looks eerily familiar. I'm shocked from seeing it online after some 33 years. yikes. :)

TGuy, I don't remember the actual words, but Steve Savage does sound familiar and yes, the american I remember DID wear a cowboy hat. I think the text said he really liked it, and the artist really captured a unsettling gleam in the aviators eyes. So maybe I just remembered that he looked like he liked it a lot.

KirkG - I remember that episode very well, it was one of the first hour long episodes that Rod was forced to do mid run.
But, as you said, this was a comic. I remember he found an old crone that ate his last chunk of cheese and disapeared with a cackle. It seems to me he was looking for someone, but I don't remember. Ah well....

One last comic I remember, was a man having a hallucination, has a vision where he is skiing across a sand dune on skis, what stands out in my mind, was that the skis hovered like two feet above the sand and he is attacked at one point by men with some sort of beam weapon that fuses the impact point into glass (first time I had heard of such a thing as that as a kid). at the end of the section he wakes up from his vision unharmed.

[iranon]

ok I have the answer to at least one of the questions I asked.

the one regarding the man from the future was the second of a three comic series called 'The year 700 after the Bomb!" in 'Weird War Tales #43"

one down two to go ;)

:D