As a long time comic book reader (since the 1970s), I never got into "war' comics. However, there were 2 different "war" comic books that made me curious because they had a supernatural aspect to them. One was "Weird War," and the other was "The Haunted Tank." I didn't read either of them back then, but recently, I've found a 500 page black and white trade paperback collecting the Haunted Tank. Today's blog is about DC Showcase Presents: The Haunted Tank, Volume 1.
MY TAKE - I wanted to read it because it was about the ghost of a Civil War soldier who haunted a tank, and was attached to one of the soldiers in it, who was a relative. Looking at it from my perspective as a Paranormal Investigator in the real world, unless this ghost hung around and attached himself to generations of the family, and finally this specific soldier, it's an unlikely paranormal scenario- but, the concept is interesting. After about 150 pages, I stopped reading it, because there really was only so much that could be done with the characters who manned a small tank that was able to destroy many much larger German "Tiger tanks." Also, only the soldier/relative was the only one able to see and hear the ghost, so the others thought the soldier a bit odd. It was fun to finally read it, but I couldn't finish it.
ABOUT THE BOOK: The DC Showcase Presents: The Haunted Tank, Volume 1 has over 500 pages of stories from various comics throughout the 60s and 70s. One of the most unusual concepts in war comics gets the Showcase treatment in this volume collecting stories from G.I. COMBAT #87-119, BRAVE AND THE BOLD #52 and OUR ARMY AT WAR #155! The ghost of a Confederate general returns to protect to his namesake, commander of a tank in North Africa in WWII.
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