Tales From The Quarter Bin--Wither War Comics?!?

Remember when the comic companies used to publish war comics?

DC once thought it was a shootin' offense to not be putting out good war comics:

Wow...modern DC executives better hope that failing to give the readers what they want is no longer a firing squad offense...

It is curious...war comics were once all the vogue, even into the mid-1980s. DC was obviously proud that they were still cranking out Sgt. Rock and the Haunted Tank et. al.

All that changed post-Crisis. And I shouldn't single out DC--Marvel hopped off the war comic bandwagon a lot earlier than the Distinguished Competition.

I'm sure part of it was that WWII was more and more remote, and more recent wars were more problematical from a "will they audience accept this war as moral and necessary" angle. War comics are easy when you can make Nazis the villain; not so easy when you've got to portray enemy troops of other races and cultures and not offend anyone.

I don't have any really brilliant thoughts or ideas here...I just found it interesting that 30-odd years ago, DC was proud of their war comics, and sold them fairly hard. Times change...

From DC Sampler #1 (1983), by these guys:

Best Cover You've Never Seen--G.I. Combat #287 (1987)

Goddamn, Joe Kubert. God damn.

G.I. Combat #287 is from 1987.