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Blazing Combat was an American war-comics magazine published between 1965 and 1966, featuring stories in both contemporary and period settings and focusing first on WWII and the American Civil War before moving on to more controversial Vietnam-based stories. Blazing Combat's comics were remarkable in that they were unified by a humanistic theme of the personal cost of war, rather than by traditional adventure motifs. While writer Archie Goodwin portrayed the conflicts even-handedly, his Vietnam stories caused key distributors to stop selling the title.

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[A]n amazing collection of... stories... written by the outstanding Archie Goodwin... throw in some of the most amazing art, all of it sharply and expertly reproduced, and you've got some real dynamite here. ... And there's fantastic bonus features.--Tom McLean

Blazing Combat collects the entire run in a beautiful, incredibly well-bound hardcover book... The stories' tone is very 1960s, ironic with a cynicism stemming from brokenhearted humanism. -- Carol Borden

Probably the best war comic ever published.--Richard Arndt, comic book historian

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Archie Goodwin(1937-1998, b. Kansas City, Missouri) is best known as an editor and writer for Warren, DC, and Marvel Comics. He co-created, with Walter Simonson, Luke Cage and Spider-Woman, and rebooted the Vampirella character. He also wrote newspaper comic strips, notably Star Wars, drawn by Al Williamson. He won multiple awards and authored the first graphic novel on the NYT Best-Seller list.

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