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The early issues of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos  included many feature pages that were likely the invention of Jack Kirby, who may have written some as well. "Weapons of War" debuted in Sgt. Fury # 1 and since the title is self-explanatory, lets let the pictures do the talking! Sgt. Fury cheerfully introduces the Weapons of War feature. Jack Kirby may have come up with the concept and possibly did the research; Stan Lee likely provided Fury's dialogue. For you completests, Dick Ayers inked, Artie Simek lettered and Stan Goldberg is the primary palette suspect. From Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos # 1, May 1963. "The Enemy That Was!" is very likely written by Kirby, with some editing by Lee. The style is terse and to the point. It reads very much like his later scripted stories:  "The german soldier was tough, well-trained, well-disciplined! He carried out orders with unquestioning, deadly efficiency!"    Dick Ayers inks, Artie Simek lett

This time out I’ll continue to   showcase Bill Everett’s western stories for Marvel, beginning in 1960 (to read a thorough examination of  Everett's Romance art for Timely-Atlas, and much more,  please go to Doc V's blog): http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2011/03/bill-everett-timely-romance-stories.html Bill Everett worked in every genre for Timely/Atlas, including war, humor, jungle, romance, horror/mystery and, of course, westerns. Everett contributed stories and covers to titles like Western Outlaws , Quick-Trigger Western and Wyatt Earp .  Everett's first 1960s' western was a five page filler in  Kid Colt # 90, drawn, lettered and possibly written by him. Everett ’s work at Marvel was sporadic in the early 1960s, as he was working at a greeting card company, but he returned in full force by 1966, working mainly on the superhero line, including stints on The Hulk, Dr. Strange and, of course, his baby, Sub-Mariner. Everett had a special affinity for the west