America at War: The Best of DC War Comics

by Michael E. Uslan, Neal Adams, Russ Heath

AMERICA AT WAR - THE BEST OF DC WAR COMICS

Genres: Comics, War

256 pages, Paperback

First published June 21, 1979

About the author

Michael E. Uslan (born June 2, 1952) is a producer of the Batman movies and was the first instructor to teach an accredited course on comic book folklore at any university.

Uslan is best known as a producer of all of the modern Batman films to date, starting with Tim Burton's 1989 film, and continuing to 2012's The Dark Knight Rises and also including various feature-length films based on the Batman: The Animated Series and The Batman.

Reviews

[Ensley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a solid collection of color reprints of selected DC war comics from the 1940s - 1970s. I have some problems with the book's subtitle of "The best of DC War Comics," however, as the collection is more along the lines of a chronological sampling than a truly critical collection. Still, it's interesting to see early work by Jack Kirby in The Boy Commandos, and the three Our Army At War/Sgt Rock stories and the Unknown Soldier piece presented are all classics. It's nice to see Sam Glanzman's USS Stevens included as well, and, of course, the ever-incredible Mlle. Marie!

Overall, it's a great collection for no other reason than it presents some hard-to-find/expensive stories on relatively high quality paper in a format you can find used for around $10 (paperback).

[Michael P. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this book was doomed to fail. In my reading, the best DC war comics are the miscellaneous stories, not those with continuing characters. There is two outstanding stories in this collection, "Push-Button War!" and "Kamikaze," but most feature the series characters and the best of these, "Killer of the Skies!," "What's the Color of Your Blood," and "8,000 to One," do not rise to that level, so the book fails its subtitle. It is a good collection that uses the history of DC war comics with an emphasis on the latter and better work, but it should have been better.

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of DC Comics best war comics from the 40's to the 70's It has classic comics, and classic artists. If you like comics or reading war fiction this is good stuff for you.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Recently cleaned out my room at my mothers house and found this book. It was one of my favorites as a kid. I still remember many of the stories.