The Invaders, No. 16

Written by - Roy Thomas

Pencils by - Jim Mooney

Inks by - Frank Springer

Colours by - Janice Cohen

Letters by - John Costanza

Great cover art here by Jack Kirby featured on The Invaders no. 16 from May 1977. After recently reading Marvels current 'Fear Itself' event I was (again) reminded of Nazis in comic books, to which. The Invaders came to mind; The Invaders generally features many Nazis and this one has the biggest one of all... 

Captain America and Bucky are in London and fail to stop the abduction of American Private 'Biljo White' by a group of Nazis. Biljo White is the writer and artist of fictional comic book 'Major Victory'. Captain America purchases the latest issue as it features the origin of Major Victory which strangely mirrors the Cap's own origins. It is from this story that the Nazis believe its writer, Biljo White, knows the details of the 'Super Soldier Formula'. They travel to Berchtesgaden, Hitlers armoured fortress, in Namor's airship which is stormed by Master Man. Then Hitler arrives...

Bridge to Hell & Umberto Lenzi

Ok, something a little different today. I picked up this beauty earlier in the year from a charity shop in the Lake District for 50p; it's a VHS copy Umberto Lenzi's 1986 war flick "Bridge To Hell". What drew me in initially was obviously the front cover, but after reading the blurb on the back I was slightly confused. It says that 3 escaped prisoners of war are aided by local freedom fighters to steal 'The San Basilio Treasure'. It goes on to describe of how they are confronted by the might of the German Armed Forces... Nazi's? Yup, that's right, this is set during 1939 and 1945... After discovering this I flipped over the case and took another look at the cover, something didn't sit right; perhaps it was the size of the machine guns or even the pretty modern looking helicopter. I knew this was going to be a bad film - but for 50p? It would have been rude not to...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090772/

Umberto Lenzi made almost half-a-dozen war films and having only seen this one, I find it hard to imagine that any of the others could be any worse. This is a pretty terrible film, but also pretty hilarious too.  Here are some clips from the film: