Religion In The Comics - 037

[Cartoonist]

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This fable comes from War Battles #4, cover dated June 1952. It was published by Harvey Comics, the same folks who brought you Casper the Friendly Ghost. I won't spoil the surprise ending, so I'll post my comments at the end.






Good thing he had that Bible in his pocket. That shrapnel would have cut right through Ulysses.
There was a story not too long ago about a campus shooting in which a student wearing a backpack was saved because the bullet got no further than a copy of “Great Medieval Thinkers” by John Wyclif.

The student was quoted as saying, "I honestly think that this was a direct intervention by God." Why didn't he credit John Wyclif? Hell, he could have picked any one of a dozen great Medieval Thinkers. And do believers really think we are buying this hogwash? A few installments back I exposed the great lie about stories in which people are given a chance to reject Christianity or die. This is another lie of the same sort.

BONUS

Here's an ad found in another issue of War Battles. Funny, looking over the list of neat stuff I would get, I didn't see any bibles.

[mr blur]

1. A bullet-proof Babble!

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He was lucky that those godless Commies hadn't developed a dogma-piercing bullet!

[Lordquinton]

2. The steel cover had nothing to do with it

Maybe we should just make uniforms with steel plates over the heart, seems to work all the time in stories.

This kinda stretches credulity with him being in a boat that was hit by a shell, rather than just taking machine gun fire or something.

[edhopper]

3. looked into this

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19430610&id=B_ouAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8tsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6073,1895145&hl=en

So tons of scrap steel was authorized to make steel covered bibles. Given to service men exactly with the hope they would stop a bullet. How many were there. Hundreds of thousands? millions?
The odds that a few would save a GI here or there are pretty good. But how many carrying them were killed?
Sounds a lot like the "miracles" when one person lives in a disaster that kills hundreds.

[onager]

4. "Night...off a North Korean shore!"

{pedantry}

Except nobody did an amphibious landing "off a North Korean shore" during the Korean War.

The only big amphibious landing in that war was at Inchon in Sept. 1950. That's in South Korea. Though I guess a Bigger Pedant could say Inchon was behind North Korean lines at the time...

But that landing was a total surprise to the North Koreans and resulted in very low American losses. It could have been a lot worse. Inchon has some of the most unpredictable tides in the world. The nightmare scenario was the landing craft going in at the wrong time, and getting hung up on sandbars and rocks. Which would have led to the massacre shown in the comic.

You want a miracle? Well, a negative miracle, I guess. One U.S. Marine unit's objective at Inchon was a beer factory. And the Marines stormed ashore, no doubt, with visions of many cold ones dancing in their heads.

When they reached the objective, they found that pre-invasion shelling and bombing had broken every bottle of beer in the place.

{/pedantry}

[Lordquinton]

6. This detail struck me as off too

Maybe they had an older comic that they repurposed to be about Korea instead of japan, kinda like what they did with Mash

[AlbertCat]

5. Oh THAT old tired myth

Yawn