One of the last great realistic strips was Joe Kubert's Green Barets. Even though he did not particulary feel the war genre to be his greatest love (that would be Tarzan), this assignment did cement his image as a war loving artist and possibly helped him het the PS assignment (the preventive maintenance monthly for army personel) in later years. I mentioned the new Beyond Mars book from IDW this week and strip beautifully drawn and competently written series would be my next choice for the same treatment, Although I think it probably had a combined storyline for dailies and Sundays, which woul hamper it's format in a book. Next thursday I will share another of my favorites for a full color reprint from the sixties. At the end of the run the strip was taken over by former Tarzan artist John Celardo, so Kubert could go and do Tarzan (in the comics, though).
By the way, here are three I shared earlier:
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Yep, the Sundays continued from the dailies. Blackthorne published three volumes in black and white in the 80s (don't know if they did any more, since getting those books even back then was very rare).
Russ Heath did a couple of Sundays too and maybe some dailies.
It'd be nice if LOAC publishes this series too, in the format they're doing the Milton Caniff books (Terry & pirates, Steve Canyon). Though those books suffer from a rather small size, eventhough they're over 300 pages. These Green Berets strips wouldn't suffer as much, as the size of the dailies and Sundays had dimished a lot since the 50s and artists didn't use those large boards they once used before.
Thanks for the color sundays, I've collected a bunch of these over the years... http://www.mediafire.com/view/b74u547zuimb8ww/Tales_of_The_Green_Beret.doc
I have the Blackthorne series, which at least is something.
I will be glad to share your copies here, Tom. And these as well: http://thegoldenagesite.blogspot.nl/2012/08/blog-post_17.html
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