Synopsis
Fred Monday, once an all-scholastic football player, had a handicapped little brother who he always felt sorry for, remarking that he would rather be dead than to be like him. Soon, Fred went into the Army and overseas, where an artillery explosion severely left him without a right arm. In the hospital, his kid brother sent him a letter that lifted his spirits, but when people pitied him, he began to understand how his brother Jimmy felt when he had pitied him! Fred meets with the JSA at a soldier's hospital and asks for their help with some kids in the same situation.
Notes
Scripter Gardner Fox reports writing this story after the stories that appeared in #28 and #29, but had been shoehorned in ahead of them because it dealt in part with handicapped servicemen returning from military service, and DC wanted to get it out as soon as possible. DC had been asked to do such a story by the National Institute for the Handicapped, because war-injured veterans were attempting to re-integrate into society. This issue is mentioned in the 1951 edition of the Encyclopedia Americana, in the section on "comics" (Vol. 7, page 362d, column 1).
On-sale date from copyright registration. On-sale date of November 16 in ad in Sensation Comics #49.
Reprinted in
- All Star Comics Archives #6
- Wonder Woman: The War Years 1941-1945 #[nn]
- Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War #[nn]
Credits
- Script
- Gardner Fox, Ed Wheelan, Jim Robinson, Ron Santi
- Pencils
- Martin Naydel, Roland Coe, Joe Kubert, Stan Asch, Paul Reinman, Ed Wheelan, Chester Kozlak, Ron Santi, C. C. Beck
- Inks
- Martin Naydel, Roland Coe, Joe Kubert, Stan Asch, Paul Reinman, Ed Wheelan, Chester Kozlak, Ron Santi, Pete Costanza
- Letters
- Ed Wheelan, Ron Santi
- Editor
- Sheldon Mayer
Characters
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