 Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book reading video. And what we're going to do today is have a read through Spy Fighters, number 9, published in 1952 from Atlas Comics, which was the company before Marvel was called Marvel. So Atlas Comics is really Marvel Comics from the golden age of comics. Atlas and Timely, they sort of flipped, I believe they went from Atlas to Timely or was Timely to Atlas and then into Marvel, right? And what you'll notice in this comic book is a lot of the creators from Marvel Comics that people know of from the 19, from the silver age of comics when Marvel really took over with Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and whatnot. There's a lot of the same artists that were working on those comics that came from Atlas and Timely comics from the golden age of comics and this is no exception, this comic is one of them. And once we look at some of the creators of this comic book, if you've been following some of our previous comic book readings and comic book calls you'll find out that this is, look at this face, I'll take this out of the bag and that way we can take a look at it without the glare. And just to let you know where we got this comic from, this is a comic book we picked up in comic book haul number 24 and that comic book haul was brought about a huge part by one of the people that's been following our comic book readings and they decided to contribute some fun so we could get ourselves a nice comic book haul and comic book haul number 24 we got a pretty nice haul so a huge thank you to Nicholas for providing the fun for us to get this comic book and we ended up getting this comic book at an amazing deal, at an amazing deal, right? And in that comic book haul, we do mention it, I'll mention it here as well because it's a pretty sweet deal we ended up picking up this comic book and it's graded at the back of what comic book haul for the last few years what I've been doing is writing down what the grade is, so this is good, very good, which is 3.0 so we picked up this 1951, 1952 comic book, war comic book from the golden age of comics for a dollar Canadian, 75 cents US, so there are some amazing deals to be had when you're looking around for comic books for as long as they last anyway, and this was one of them and we ended up getting a couple other, actually more than a couple other amazing deals in that comic book haul number 24 and we picked up some beautiful comics, two of which we've already done a reading for there were a couple of romance comics from 19, from the golden age of comics that we picked up as well one of them was Life Story number 13, which some of the artwork was done by Wally Wood which was absolutely fantastic and we got a fantastic deal on that as well so we've already done the reading for that and that comic book had an interview with Gene Kelly so what we ended up doing was reading the interview with Gene Kelly and sort of released a video just of the interview because I found the interview to be super cool and the other romance comic we read from that comic book haul was Young Love number 31 and the artwork for that was done by Jack Kirby so a fantastic comic book haul and this is one of the ones that we're going to read right now and there's another comic book we're going to read as well from that haul that I picked out which we didn't know when I ended up picking it up we'll talk about it when we do the reading for that but it's basically the first Ant-Man prototype some would argue it was the first Ant-Man really but we'll take a look at it, we did look at it during the comic book haul so let's crack this open and flip through it and let me tell you, there should be about five stories it is an anthology, so there should be five stories in here now the cover, let's pull this out and take a closer look without that shine, glare off the plastic coming on the comic, the artwork for the cover of this comic book is done by Sol Brodsky okay, let me get this in a way so we don't get the hardcore glare going on it's a beautiful cover and the artwork is done by Sol Brodsky and Sol Brodsky is huge Stan Lee has been quoted as saying that Sol was really my right-hand man for years and that's quoting Stan Lee and Sol was basically, he was instrumental during the Golden Age of comics for Atlas comics and time that I believe and then when the Silver Age of comics came in as Stan Lee says, he was his right-hand man he was instrumental in putting together the amazing Spider-Man logo and a lot of the other logos that are still in use for a lot of the characters in Marvel comics and another quote from Stan Lee basically says Lee described, I'm just quoting from something I found on Wiki but Lee describes Brodsky as my assistant for years and the company's production head he could write, he could draw, he could ink, he could do everything fantastic, fantastic and that fine print is way too small for me to read even with my glasses but this thing came out in July 1952 and the colors for this by the way the colors for this cover were done by Stan Goldberg and Stan Goldberg was a huge producer, produced a lot of work for Archie comics and he did the original colors for the first few issues of Spider-Man as well as the Fantastic Four so he's huge, what does this thing say? Surrounded on all sides by the Reds, Lieutenant Clark Mason is trapped with his Doom Patrol and up top here, I guess during the Golden Age maybe starring federal agent Clark Mason so maybe Clark Mason was one of the bigger characters, right? War Adventures of Spies in actual combat but I love the eyes check out the eyes, wow that's trippy, I guess he's all shocked because the person he's stepping on the ledge and the rocks are falling and all of a sudden they're caught in surprise mode right? Fantastic, the guy's holding the other guy's mouth so he doesn't freak out, holding his gun at the top there, wow, let's flip through this we usually end up reading and I haven't flipped through this by the way we always, for all the comic book hauls we've read we've read the fine print but we've got a chunk missing here unfortunately, we'll read what we can for sure but before we read that let's just take a look at the back front cover oh boy, here's the great assortment, never offered fireworks, you could order fireworks over 1000 pieces, nice, I don't think we've seen fireworks before, advertisements for fireworks in comics over 1000 pieces, 14.25 retail value all yours for only 4.95 look at all this, one of these probably costs 4.95 now, rich bros all American assortment, get set for the most fun you've ever had enough, enough bring this up so you can read it too enough fireworks to last all day, all day, they're gonna burn all this all day, total Firemaniacs all day evening pieces too, nice contains plenty of Chinese flash crackers including 7 packages of the world's famous and zebra crackers, plus all these items repeating bombs, sky rockets sparklers, roman candles, oh roman candles and believe it or not, in Canada it's now illegal or at least in British Columbia it's now illegal to sell roman candles can you believe it, roman candles whistling cyclones, electronic cannon flutes, fountains, novelty colored fire cherry bombs aerial whistle bombs, snakeers all snakeers are fun, you just light them up they go bursting comets, sparkling fire aerial flash bombs, oh my god long cones, whistle mutes also 100 salutes, free punk what, what, and then you got another package here lawn display, no noise assortment, no noise, what approximate retail value, 3075, yours for only 5.95, look at that, check this out notice, what did I say, print your name and address carefully in closed money order or check nonsent COD, cash on delivery or something like that, shipped only by rr express collect name nearest express, oh man I wish we could order firecrackers with the mail today that would be fantastic firecrackers would be fun too sent postcard for free catalog of other assortments and displays yes please, rich brothers firework company department 10, box 514 Sioux Falls South Dakota, nice nice nice I don't think this is legal anymore what does this say, the fine print, we gotta read some of it spy fighters is published by classic syndicate ink office at publication office of publication, 355th avenue New York, New York entered a second class matter at the post office, New York under the act of March 3rd, 1879 additional entry at Syracuse, New York published by monthly 1952 by classic syndicate ink 355th avenue New York volume number 1, number 9, July 1952 and we got chunks missing, copy something subscription rate $1.45 for 12 issues including postage, no similarity between any of, I guess, characters or persons or institutions appearing in this magazine with those of any living or dead something something is intended and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental printed in the United States so the other person by the way we have flipped through this and then we'll pick at least a couple of stories to read through this, the other person that works on this is Al Bellman and he did the story for The Chance and Al Bellman was pretty big as well Alan Bellman, he worked a lot for Timely Comics which is again the precursor to Atlas Comics and he worked on in the 1940s and 50s on Captain America and the Submariner and the Human Torch and Mystic Comics so he was really huge as well and I believe the last story of this which is called The Tin Soldier is by Saul Brodsky but I believe, I found one place, it was also supposed to be by Joe Sennoth and Joe Sennoth is huge as well so let you know the numbers on comic wine Joe Sennoth has, he's got 1200, almost 1300 comic books to his credit Saul Brodsky, aside from being Stan's right hand man and designing logos and whatnot, he's got like 382 comic books credited to his name or fireworks, look at this and Stan Goldberg 884 comic books to his name, so a lot of history here awesome, stone cold dead pre-private, this is The Chance cool, this is Alan Alan Bellman's work we'll flip through this, we're gonna read through this one too rare, army patches it'll be a bombshell in any touch sport American combat judo, how to hypnotize haha, nice, awesome it's easy to hypnotize, but you know how Doom Patrol, I think we're gonna read this for sure so we're gonna read Doom Patrol for sure as well we're gonna go around on the pages too long, more fireworks I guess a lot of the war comics had fireworks associated with them in walkie-talkie I believe, check that out the original cell phones, ladies and gentlemen look at this one, trippy tin soldier, what a panel and tin soldiers by Saul Brodsky as well Joe Senata, I'm not sure how much contribution we're gonna read this one as well, this one looks trippy toy soldier, okay, we got our reads going on television bank, what is this one the shows, on gang, new super duper simply terrific, television bank awesome bank, you just put money in it save your hair look at this one, I've never seen this one before what in the world kill these hair destroying germs with war's formula stuff, oh look at this it's got the names of the whatever they're trying to portray here Petrus Poriam Oveil Moro Cocos Steffy Locos Albus Micro Bacillus crazy, look at the guy's face save your hair, scalp itch, falling hair, danger of head orders, so it's horrific crazy, and of course we got the muscle advertisements, we've looked at before right, should we read one of this let's read, I don't know if we've ever read one of these ones hey, quick kicking that sand on our faces, that man is the worst nuisance on the beach the girl says, look at that, listen here I'd smash the muscle guy saying, I'd smash your face only you're so skinny you might dry up and blow away whoa, the big bully the guy says I'll keep even, I'll get even someday oh, don't let it bother you little boy I'm sick and tired of being a scarecrow Charles Atlas says he can give me a real body, alright, I'll gamble a stamp and get his free book boy, it didn't take Atlas long to do this for me, and it says later, right for me, what muscles, that bully won't shove me around again, so going from that to that will probably take you about 5 years, if you do it hard it's about 3, 4 years, 5 years if you do it right longer really, to a certain degree oh, he goes to the beach with the same lady what, you here again, here's something I owe you back, smash him on the neck, oh Joe you're a real man after all, hero of the beach people say, gosh what a build, he's already famous for times of change there, I can make you a new man too, in only 15 minutes a day and that is not going to be only 15 minutes a day guaranteed, oh what is this guy, here's the advertisement for these ones, electric spot reducer, excess weight try the spot reducer, 10 days free in your own home muscle aches, also use it for aches and pain, so I guess some kind of heat pad thing this book would be, it is great at good varigo, so 3.0, and I'd say 3.0 as well 2.5, 3.5 2.5, 3.0 nice cover, nice cover should we have a read through this game, let's have a read through this check this out, it's got a little stamp on it April 23rd, REC deed, recorded I guess April, so if the cover date is July I doubted if the stamp would have stayed active since 1952 maybe, I wonder if that's the original 1952 stamp that's on there, I'd be surprised tonight we die, should we read this one too, let's read this one as well, it's been a while since we did a comic book reading we might as well enjoy a nice anthology read, tonight we die, starring Clark Mason spy hunter, what does a man do when he's trapped, with not one chance in a thousand of getting away alive, here's the answer in one of the bloodiest battles of the Korean war the story of a slaughter, check this out, at the bottom here all names and places in this in these true to life stories are fictional, any similarity between actual persons or places and those used in these stories is purely coincidental we were at comic books where they say they were based on true stories these are fiction, the first battalion of a mixed UN unit, my unit, was surrounded for for four days near kitsuo without hope of rescue, with all, we all knew it was survival or death and we fought as if these were our last seconds on earth for many, those were the last seconds there's another person in the back that's being shot as well, not just this guy this guy's being shot in the head, ouch the retreat had been ordered but our unit was overrun almost immediately, to make things worse, our radio was destroyed for days, for days we tried to contact headquarters in vain still no luck lieutenant, keep trying, if we reach headquarters they're sure to send help suddenly I saw an oblong shape arc through the air, wait lieutenant here's something, something's coming in for heaven's sake, look out radio equipment was smashed to smithereens, so were most of the men except one, as he rose giddily to his feet I couldn't believe my eyes, gosh close, mad, how did you do it, you should be lying in pieces they say, there are explosions all over the place I guess it's the rabbit's foot, seen me through eyes kissing a rabbit's foot, seen me through World War II without a scratch, now she done it again nothing but a cockeyed miracle could have saved you smack, kisses the rabbit's foot another man saw what happened sergeant Mick Mann looked at the rabbit's foot as if it were the hope diamond look at the grin on his face where'd you get it, Peter's, Kansas, the afternoon I shot him huh, a cycle blew through town, crushed my house like a pack of cards, if I'd been home well, I wouldn't be here kiss the foot and get into line some guys out there want to make a monkey out of your superstition, they should know better better than that, you can't make a monkey out of a rabbit's, think there's something to Lieutenant, the other soldier is asking he's not even wearing a hat anymore in the back that's one way to distinguish and he shot the rabbit himself that's where he got the foot from, his own hunt I think there's something to it Lieutenant I'll put it this way, Mick Mann if I had my choice between the rabbit's foot and seeing a UN armor column come over the hill I know what I'd prefer, so the battle for survival went on, but as time passed there were fewer and fewer survivors in them rats got nothing better to do than wipe us out what are you worrying about, you're safe with that rabbit's foot in your pocket, there it was the philosophy of three men facing death one relying upon magic the second envying the first, his superstition, and the third putting his faith in armor, would any of us be vindicated would any of us survive the death whizzing all around us, as for the connies, they attacked as if life or death didn't matter, only killing us mattered yet we repulsed them by day, and by night our fire took a rightful toll on their troops but the toll they took of our men was even greater, the fewer we were the better were their chances of overwhelming our position on the next rush I know, another man gone, another rifle that can't be fired, how long do you figure would last lieutenant, as long as we have to doctor he says, brave words lieutenant but brave men die, as you see, why shouldn't the bravest hopes be doomed to death too, that's what the medics say hope goes on forever doctor, no patients is lost till he breathes his last we're a dying patient yet we might live if, if help comes in time did it come in time for these men, no, they were unlucky, for luck to exist others have to be unfortunate, that's a great saying for luck to exist others have to be unfortunate for luck to exist others have to be unfortunate convinced mason, just convince just convince the rest of that rabbit peter has a piece of, he's still looking at the rabbit's foot mock peter all you like doctor, I'm for anything that keeps a man's hopes alive, I believe nothing's inevitable accept death, be resigned mason better than is better that way doc's right lieutenant, there ain't nothing coming over that hill you're watching, but the angel of death maybe the doc and mick man were right just the same, I was playing the string, string out wasn't much of a string left though just 20 able bodied men sustained rush, one breach of our line and they'll be pouring through the hole like a flood of death he says, yet if we could hold them, keep them away for another 6 or 7 hours reinforcements might come, we might be rescued the men would fight, each man with the fury of 7 men, they knew there was no surrender a swift death was better than torture what are you thinking about mick man I'm thinking I should have been born a girl I'd be home baking cookies for the church festival tomorrow instead of getting myself spitted on a red bayonet holding his rabbit's foot, whether we were the quietest group of men, whoever made the last stand I don't know nobody said a word till I fired the flare that meant the end was on its way reds on schedule eh, well nice to have known you lieutenant likewise mick man, but don't give up till you see the red in their eyes I still don't know how it worked out the way it did I just remember the fight we put up, we battled like possessed, keep up the fire, they might break not this time, too many waves they keep going over their own head, it was true this time they couldn't be stopped, we were just not killing enough of them they ain't stopping, they're coming close of home, they came shrieking their buns eyes it's the end, they'll be on top of us in a second I took a quick look around Peter was kissing his rabbit's foot, mick man for some reason was watching Peter then there was no time to watch anybody the reds stormed up to us with gleeful shrieks and bayonets eager for gi valleys give it to the sons of satan take as many as you can with us everything turned into a nightmare shrieking and stabbing nobody had a chance my hand coming up all around me, I saw my friends go down it was a slaughter, desperately I struggled with the reds, suddenly I felt a thought on my back then a hatchet blew behind my ear a pitch blackened blackness opened beneath me a thousand needles turned in my chest and later after what seems in eternity of darkness, I opened my eyes slowly not knowing what to expect and saw stars the stars of heaven, earth's heaven, I'm alive I wasn't killed when, the needles still burn in my chest, but it was good to feel pain pain meant I was alive, dead man all around me suddenly I saw one head lift itself from the many dead ones they're up on the hill torturing the boys they got alive I've been going mad hearing the screams another head lifted, a groan broke from his lips he stifled the groan, he's putting his hand on his mouth the jerk, I can't keep him still he lost his rabbit's foot and he wants to look for it now don't be insane peters, McMahon can he move he got a chest wound but he can move so can I, we ought to take off lieutenant, they might come back, you're right McMahon, start crawling not on your belly, on your back and backwards, when we get into the shadows of the hill, straighten up, but we hadn't crawled an inch when peters got upon his hunches, the tenet, the crazy nut he's looking for his rabbit's foot, oh no it was in my pocket when the rats came, I ain't leaving without it my luck will run out, I got to find it get down peters, they'll see you out here they'll investigate let him, I ain't leaving without the rabbit's foot, it's here somewhere peters voice carried the rats turned their heads peters, they see us, you fool, why didn't you listen he says there was no time to quarrel, the rats were coming next time they'd make sure to leave us dead grab a gun, maybe we can backpedal into the hills if we keep them at bay you and your rabbit's foot he says, we let them have it and they went down, but not enough of them the others pressed on, the bombs don't anything stop them, blam blam blam, suddenly the rats before us began to drop by the score strange thunder filled the valley, I turned my head in the days but there it was, big as life and just as beautiful you and armor, it's no dream it's real, we're saved, we're saved peters sang to his knees and cried with joy and uttered a crooked cry look, look, make man, make man but make man couldn't hear me an hour later, peters and I watched him being picked up by the grave detail, poor guy another second and look, something fell from his pockets it's peters rabbit's foot make man stole it from me the dirty thief, he wanted to steal my luck wait peters, look at make man, he had the rabbit's foot yeah, that kind of luck he can't take with him, wait a second, is he throwing the rabbit's foot into the with make man wait peter, look at make man, he had the rabbit's foot yeah, that kind of luck he can't take with him, lieutenant a cat's got nine lives, maybe a rabbit's got the same, maybe I used up all the lives in it maybe, come on peters, let's get our wounds dressed, oh that's right, because make man had the rabbit's foot in his pocket, but he still got shot that's right so peters just throws it on his well, the dead detail carrying him away so the rabbit's foot used up his luck as I said before, I'll take armor that's what he says, the lieutenant that's a cool story let's read the chance, and this is by Alan Belman if you were the GI in the story, would you take the chance? and I say stop gripping about it a metal ain't nothing but a chunk of metal, soldier says maybe, but I wish I had one, just something to show to my kids after this mess is over except I ain't never had a chance to win one but a chance fuzzy is one I'd rather not have thank you, I'm satisfied with things as they are men will find time to gripe and dream even under conditions such as these, bullets fly shells explode, but dreams go on and on the name was private fuzzy chambers, just one of an outfit giving the Chinese reds reasons for the Korean war, a good soldier, a splendid fighter just one of the Joes all I'll end up with is a campaign ribbon boy if the chance ever comes, will you shut up and concentrate on this here shooting he wants to be a hero, fuzzy chambers the heavy guns on both sides had been delching death for three days, even the danger and the excitement of war can become monotonous after so long a time, to these men it had become just a job to do as well as possible explosions all around, hold it, cease fire, what they're quitting, there's a white flag, oh jeez another chance, gone to get me a medal or something, we're still alive boy, the shooting's over yeah, but I, attention men, they're coming over keep your guns on them, every second there's a lot of them there, that's a mound of soldiers holy smoke, hundreds of them, why they would have wiped us out if they held out a little longer, the surrender was on eventful and orderly, the enemy was unarmed and placed in wire exposure, enclosures, until they could be transported back to the Alliance, oh this is the life just wake me up when we get to Albany, there goes my chance, my last chance for a medal, my kids will never believe their old man was a soldier yeah, keepin' me awake boy so the fightin' was over, but there was still soldiers work to be done, Collins Scarpawn, Chambers, come on we're going on recon, what, what for they gave up, didn't they, oh for sake, they say, tough luck ladies I'll give the girls your regards when I see them in my dreams, oh come on move, let's go, so four of them are going on recon the recon unit moved out casually, taking it easy taking it easy in the afterglow of the surrender say, this ain't bad, look in country, you know what nuts, I'll take Brooklyn, every chance I had for a medal, all up the creek, this guy's still worried about his medal, what for, you always, oh someone got shot, what the blazes, sniper two of them are taken down, look at that, get out of here snipers, with silencers, oh got taken out, the shots came from nowhere instantly killing fuzzies, three buddies by sheer instinct, he ducked behind the production of a bush, holy smoke, there they come the main body of the enemy that surrender was just a trick, wow, look at that, look at all those they came, hundreds of them creeping up on the unsuspicious American troops if I stay low, they won't see me, I can keep up with them but how am I gonna warn the guys, I'm cut off look at that, he's behind that, those are troops they're close enough to attack now, well big boy, you wanted to win a medal, here's your chance, let's see if you deserve one he says, jumps out, fellas, fellas, look out here come the reds, ah, what the heck was that reds coming at us, wake up guys everybody's getting up, the yanks opened up with everything they had, throwing back the last desperate charge of the enemy, and out in the field a body rested for all time from the rigors of war and peace, fuzzy wanted the medal too bad he'll never get the chance to see it, no but his kid will, and that's what he wanted at the end, be careful what you wish for be careful what you wish for, this is a text story that was continued from the story that was earlier on but we'll skip this one, the text story, we'll read the comic continued, after the next story ah, this is it, stone cold dead look, what is that, statement of ownership management, circulation, required by the act of congress of august 24th, 1912 as amended by the acts of march 3rd, 1933 and july 2nd 1945, take a look at this legal stuff here I guess, title 39 united states of spy fighters published by monthly at new york, oh this is like the fine print so this is like the fine print at the beginning down here, but a little bit more detail I guess the cover is, if owned by a corporation, its name and address must be stated and oh this is all the regulations, what they have to say right, holding 1% more of the total ah, what's this, let's read number 2 here the owner is, if owned by a corporation, its name and address must be stated and also immediately thereafter the names and addresses of stockholders owner, owning or holding 1% or more of the total amount of stock if not owned by a corporation the names and addresses of the individuals, owners must be given, if owned by a partnership or other uncorporated firm, its name and address as well as that of each individual member, must be given wow, a lot of legal stuff signed, robert soloman, sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th day of september 1951 after fzimmer, nor republic wow, wow, wow, who knew it was a lot of legal stuff we've read some of them, right and the staples of this are pretty nicely intact, so that's really good doom patrol, let's read doom patrol nice, nice, nice, doom patrol by sol brotsky, right yes, clark mason again let's read this guy, doom patrol the squad of men were sent into enemy territory to play decoy to expose themselves to the enemy and lure them into a trap it wasn't anybody's fault if the trap they sprung was on themselves oh, it's not going well for them he's gone to bits, there's no way out, no way out he's screaming, shut up mayfield you're not going to quit on us, understand you're not going to quit, he says starring clark mason spy fighter these golden age comics, they start off with a big panel at the beginning sort of morphed into a splash page, I guess, right kind of guy who'd like to make an impression you know the type, he's always the big sport who reaches for the check a second too late next mayfield, this one's on me he's got a little moustache too check it like that, I think it's a little moustache dick dastardly moustache, right dick dastardly moustache there too, maybe with a gal, he always begged he was always waiting for that big promotion I want to be worthy of you you deserve nothing but the best it'll be better for us to wait a while, he says in officers candidate school mayfield to high grades, markable lecture major if only all my instructors had your gift for explaining things the battlefield mayfield build up a fine reputation for soldiering and self-sacrifice, by being the first one to volunteer for difficult assignments, especially those he knew he wouldn't get, I'd be glad to go sir I know mayfield, but I need a man who knows more about radio signaling, he planned cleverly he was always cool and firm, always willing and daring I think I can tackle this assignment sir sorry mayfield, you're too vulnerable to valuable to risk losing an adventure of this sort, we need somebody more expendable mayfield, when he was at the peak of his reputation we were slugging up a road in eastern korea, when red straffling planes take cover, I remember mayfield's face talk about panic, the man was the living embodiment of terror, don't stand there mayfield, get off the road, yes yes, he froze like a deer in headlights, right everybody raced for cover, but mayfield flew ah, there he is jumping, gas he buried his face in his helmet, as if he could have squeezed his entire body into that pot of steel what remained exposed, quivered like a touched nerve no no no, stay away, oh no he's in total panic mode the worst thing to happen, bloods are heading the mud, I was near enough to him to hear mayfield moan and groan, oh so this is the fearless, dare, anything mayfield the apple of the brass's eye, he says when the attack was over, you wouldn't think mayfield was the same guy, nasty 10 minutes, wasn't it mayson I wonder how, how some of the other men took it, it was their first experience under fire, how about you mayfield, soldier asks him, don't be silly, this was like picking daisies in a deli, whatever gave you the idea, this was my first taste of action, forget it mayfield come on boys, back to hayfoot, hayfoot, straw foot but I made an enemy, I could see it in the way mayfield looked at me, somehow I probed beneath the pose, I'd seen something I wasn't supposed to see he's wondering about the impression he made on me, the crummy bluffer, he lives by impressions by why should a man live by impressions, unless it's the impression he wants people to go by, he's wondering how much I saw worrying about how much I might tell, tell whom mayfield, weeks past, we saw plenty of action, pushing north, every yard was paid for in blood, it couldn't go on, this doing it the hard way grand strategy was needed and the high brass came north to figure something out, we needed decoy and a trap meaning we need men willing to take a hundred to one chance of not coming back alive, the high press turned around slowly and looked at us we have a plan that will make things easier for our position in general, but the plan will entail great danger, therefore we need volunteers no man need be ashamed not to volunteer few will come back alive I could feel the quirk in mayfield's nature, quiver as if he'd been struck, his hand went up automatically I'll go sir, I'm not surprised mayfield, I knew you would, this that didn't turn down he's in trouble, if mayfield expected the usual reaction on the part of the brass being passed over in favor of someone less vital to the general welfare, he had a shock coming thank you my boy, this is one time we need a wise head in the lion's mouth, anybody else we need one more officer with mayfield in on this deal, it'll really be a suicide mission unless somebody's there to take over when he cracks I'll go sir, he says, that's how it happened my being thrown together with mayfield on a suicide mission, you expose yourselves to the enemy here, lure them into this valley here try not to let yourselves be cut off and surrounded for obvious reasons, is the assignment clear, perfectly sir, I wonder if that's mayfield or the other guy, I think it's the other guy mayfield kept to himself till sundown then we let four, three dozen men the human bait for the trap, mayfield didn't say two words to me, a brave man mayfield you think he was taking a walk down a country lane no explosions yet, maybe I have mayfield wrong, he's thinking as we marched deeper into the enemy territory, I began to wonder not a sign of fear from mayfield, not a word about anything in fact, though we both knew we'd been observed by now, watch him, he's calling it in and you can see them, I believe that's them in the background marching those guys there, right over the hill so he's calling it in, finally we reached our goal a slight rise of ground ideal for slit trenches this is it mayfield, we place sitting duck till they come out to kill us men commenced digging trenches set up machine gun in placements and hour later when flares went up in the north, I saw mayfield's face for the first time since darkness fell, scared to death I knew it the valley became ablaze with artificial light we saw why red tanks mayfield began to shake, steady pal, this is no time to poop out there was no need to quake, a minefield had been placed between the red position and ours and the unsuspecting beggars cleared it with their own machines poor slobs, they were like confused hippopotamide looking for an escape route and not finding any, wherever they turned they put their awkward feet into something pout the tanks with the minefield, through all this mayfield remain like a taut string watching then when one tank, the last tank somehow escaped the minefield, he snapped, that tank got through, it's coming for us, mason, mason take it easy mayfield, it's duck soup for our bazooka boys on the tank the soldiers are coming out because the tank got disabled when they're coming out, they're shooting them, when they're coming out of the the top, beautiful panel, regression of time I could hear mayfield sucking his breath with relief, there was a catch in his voice but we're not out of it, if they can't get us one way, they'll try another that's the idea isn't it, to infuriate them into leaving their positions, to dislodge us, the function of a bone in the throat is to keep choking the victim until they die trying to get rid of it, pretty soon red struffling planes came in to do what the tanks couldn't, the bullets hitting the as well as the soldiers, with deaths snarling all around us, striking like a thousand battle snakes rattlesnakes, mayfield became unhinged greeting sobs it shook his body, I'm going to die, I'm going to die saw, shut up you fool, the men will hear you you're unhinged them too all at once, another sound drawn out mayfield screeches, guardian angels with flaming wings you and night fighters were diving earthward to doing dogfights, look at that, red planes fell like ruptured ducks aflame, to our planes it was like blasting ground targets, many of the reds hadn't far to drop, so far our strategy was clicking, everything the reds sent out against us was destroyed now we had to prove that bombardment, their next logical attempt to dislodge us wouldn't also avail nothing but mayfield had other ideas I'm getting out of here, I'm not playing bullseye for their artillery, oh no, come out of the tailspin, we've got a job to do, it's only partly done, you're not quitting now he's grabbing them, Mayfield by the scuffs, I'm not staying here waiting to be smashed to bits, not for anybody men, they brought you here to die there's no way out, no way out, oh he's yelling now to all the men shut up Mayfield, think of your reputation, you've got the brass believing you're something special, they're used to spare you because they thought you were too valuable prove it, impressions mean nothing here it's what you do that counts it's coming, gasp, they'll lay a blanket of shells over us we haven't a chance, men follow me, I'll take you out of this it's the end I tell you, we don't have to die for anybody follow me and I'll get you out of this Mayfield, stop, you can't run out of this detail now, the whole battalion is depending on us I want to live I'm getting out of here, these guys are going with me over my dead body and then the soldiers are watching them, I can't be good for morale explosions everywhere he's panicking, I'll be good in a battlefield it was then I made a fatal mistake, I turned my back to Mayfield oh no, you hit him over the head you can't stop me Mason, play hero all you like and die, I'm taking the men out of here wow, hit him over the head, look at that I can't remember exactly what happened next, I only know that for a long time I heard the most horrifying sounds pinwheels of light whirling before my eyes the very ground heaved under me, I couldn't understand that it was hours later when I came to a weird quiet had settled over everything two men hovered over me, everybody else was gone or dead what happened, where is everybody, Mayfield he scrammed like a scared rabbit we went with him because he ordered us to but when we realized that he was running away, we came back here and some of the guys are still with him there had been a brief bombardment which suddenly stopped only later could I figure out why it stopped there could be only one reason Mayfield's bunch had been spotted, flares, they see us run, run, from reports which came in later the panic bunch ran in all directions at once fast as the reds ran, Mayfield and his bunch ran faster, it was a case of hounds chasing hairs all over the valley run north, they're getting closer, stay away where's you, stay away there goes Mayfield finally there was nowhere else to run except into a wall of bayonets I don't want to die the following morning at headquarters we learned that the decoy job thanks to Mayfield's self-sacrificing effort let the enemy a wild goose chase for five hours Mayfield gave his life to trick the enemy the generals say we're recommending post-humanist medals for him and his brave men Lieutenant aren't you going to say anything there's no point Joe, Mayfield was yellow but let him rest in peace reputation gleam, somebody more important than the general knows the truth, he doesn't go by impressions, wow, these are heavy reads I think maybe we ended there, oh there's this one too this looks like another, maybe we saved this one for another day, look at this one, I love this battle what does this say, tin soldier I'm always suspicious of the guy who must do something for the boys and the trenches, but what buzzy baron actually did changed a lot of minds and hearts, Mason, so this is all Clark Mason I think we'll end that there though gang this was a heavy read, this Mayfield Doom Patrol, which is the main story, right? Surrounded surrounded on all sides by the reds Lieutenant Clark Mason is trapped with his Doom Patrol that was a great read, thank you very much Nicholas for funding this haul as well this was the one actually Nicholas this comic was the one that Nicholas, I asked him later on live stream we did on Twitch, if there was any of the comics after we loaded up the comic book haul they would want to read and this is the one Nicholas said that he'd be interested for us to read and it was fantastic really, great read golden age war comic, very heavy, very heavy read we're gonna read more comics from this haul, we're gonna read one more comics comic book from this haul that we did comic book haul number 4 and that's the Ant-Man prototype and then we've got a couple other readings that I've picked up for us to read a dinosaur read and we're also gonna be reading a romance comic Silver Age romance comic that was sent to me in a batch as a sort of a gift someone thought of me when they came across them and send them our way, send them our way so we'll have a read through one of them, it looks amazing as well but for now, what a heavy war comic from the 1950s 1952 spy fighters number one from Atlas comics fantastic bye, then I'll see you guys in the next video