Our Fighting Forces

Our Fighting Forces
Cover to Our Fighting Forces #29 (Jan. 1958).
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing series
Publication date	Oct./Nov. 1954 - Sept./Oct. 1978
Number of issues	181
Main character(s)	The Losers
Creative team
Writer(s)	Robert Kanigher
Artist(s)	Jack Kirby
Collected editions
Jack Kirby's The Losers	ISBN 1401221653

Our Fighting Forces is a DC Comics war-anthology comic book series that ran for 181 issues from 1954-1978.

Characters

Features published in Our Fighting Forces include:

• Gunner and Sarge — two "Mud-Marines" and their white German Shepherd dog Pooch on a small island in the Pacific who first appeared in issue #45 (May 1959) and lasted until issue #94 (August 1965)
• The Fighting Devil-Dog Lt. Larry Rock — Marine wounded at Corregidor by shrapnel in his head that literally makes him see red on a Pacific Island from issue #95 until #98
• Capt. Phil Hunter — Green Beret in the Vietnam War searching for his twin brother Nick, a pilot shot down by the Viet Cong from issue #99 until #105
• Hunter's Hellcats — Capt. Hunter's father Ben in World War II who formed a unit of military prisoners (a comics copy of The Dirty Dozen) from #106 (April 1967) until #122
• The Losers — from #123 to #181 - DC Comics war heroes who had lost their own features:
  • Capt. Storm of the Navy
  • Johnny Cloud of the Army Air Forces
  • Gunner & Sarge of the Marines.

Creators associated with Our Fighting Forces

Writer-editor Robert Kanigher and writer-artist Jack Kirby were among the comics creators whose work appeared in the title. Others include artists Jack Abel, Ross Andru, Ken Barr, Gene Colan, Ed Davis, Mort Drucker, Mike Esposito, George Evans, Jerry Grandenetti, Russ Heath, Bruce Jones, Joe Kubert, Ric Estrada, Irv Novick, John Severin, Tom Sutton, Frank Thorne, and Wally Wood, some of whom would also script.

Collections

• The Losers by Jack Kirby (reprinting issues #151-162)

References

• Our Fighting Forces at the Comic Book DB