An action-oriented medium, comics have long used wars—real and fictional—as narrative fodder. Now, discover the secret, surprising history of anti-war comics with this marvelously curated collection.

A few comics of the time portrayed the horrors of war, but no blatantly anti-war stories were known to exist—until now! Buried in rare comics published during the Cold War were powerful war, fantasy, and sci-fi stories that strongly condemned war and the bomb, boldly calling for peace.

Contents

• This Is the Unknown Soldier! (Never Again #1, August 1955)
• The Beginning of the End (Never Again #1, August 1955)
• Battle of the Bows! (Never Again #1, August 1955)
• Career Man (Never Again #8, July 1956)
• Two Men In the Sky (Never Again #8, July 1956)
• No Common Ground (Strange Suspense Stories #66, August 1963)
• The Night the Grand Canyon Disappeared (Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #2, January 1957)
• The Ultimate Weapon (Space Adventures #54, November 1963)
• Come In, Earth-Please (Strange Suspense Stories #64, April 1963)
• The First Martian Bomb (Space War #10, April 1961)
• The Peace Planters (Space Adventures #21, August 1956)
• The Will For Peace (Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #43, October 1964)
• The Invaders (Space War #11, June 1961)
• The Enemy (Unusual Tales #31, December 1961)
• The Enemy (Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #39, December 1963)
• Man's Best Friend (Space Adventures #24, July 1958)
• The Word (Strange Suspense Stories #46, March 1960)
• The Eye In Space (Space Adventures #58, August 1964)
• The Land of Peace (Unusual Tales #42, November 1963)
• The Ray of Hate (Space War #5, June 1960)
• Day of Destiny (Space War #13, October 1961)
• Menace From Beyond (Unusual Tales #23, August 1960)
• So Small (Space War #2, December 1959)
• An Empty Earth (The Green Planet, 1962)
• After Tomorrow (Unusual Tales #13, November 1958)
• Stranger in the House (Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #5, October 1957)
• Journey's End! (Out of This World #9, August 1958)
• Automata Ultima (Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #12, April 1959)
• Menace From the Moon (Space Adventures #26, December 1958)
• The Space Creator (Strange Suspense Stories #45, January 1960)
• The Heritage (Strange Suspense Stories #52, March 1961)
• The Hostile Planet (Space Adventures #27, February 1959)
• Never Again (Unusual Tales #10, January 1958)
• Children of Doom (Charlton Premiere #2, November 1967)