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{{quote|''"Spawned in battle and tempered by danger, afraid of nothing that lives or breathes, hurling their thunderous war cry into the teeth of tyrants, here come '''Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos!'''"''
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From legendary [[Comic Book]] duo [[Stan Lee]] and [[Jack Kirby]], one of the most iconic American war comics. ''[[Nick Fury|Sgt. Fury]] and his Howling Commandos'' followed a racially-integrated special operations squad of the US Army during [[World War II]], as they fought [[Those Wacky Nazis]].
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A war comic "in the Mighty [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] Manner, the Howlers' missions were usually larger-than-life adventure stories, less realistic than, for instance, DC's ''[[Sgt. Rock]]'' feature. The series run for 120 issues (May, 1963-July, 1974)
The Howlers eventually met up with many "modern" Marvel characters who were active in WWII, including [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]] and Baron von Strucker, who was one of Fury's chief enemies both as a Wehrmacht officer and decades later as head of HYDRA. [[Nick Fury]] and many of the Howlers survived the war and became active in "modern" Marvel stories as well. Indeed, Dum-Dum Dugan even wound up leading S.H.I.E.L.D.'s anti-[[Godzilla]] forces!
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* [[All Germans Are Nazis]]: Eric Koenig subverts this, being a very anti-Nazi German, because the Nazis killed his sister.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: The series notably killed off a {{spoiler|Junior Juniper}} early on, as well as {{spoiler|Pamela Hawley, Fury}}'s love interest. Quite unheard of for its day.
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