{"id":2912,"date":"2020-11-04T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2020-10-12T09:24:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T16:24:32","slug":"509-our-army-at-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/509-our-army-at-war\/","title":{"rendered":"509 &#8211; Our Army At War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"996\" height=\"948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dig-foxhole-deep.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dig-foxhole-deep.png 996w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dig-foxhole-deep-300x286.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dig-foxhole-deep-768x731.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In June 1952, DC launched &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Our_Army_at_War\">Our Army At War<\/a>&#8221; #1.  In it, the tale &#8220;Dig Your Foxhole Deep!&#8221; written by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Kanigher\">Robert Kanigher<\/a> and drawn by Irv Novick features many panels empty of dialog but filled with dread and psychological warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Army At War also features a letters column, which may be the first DC comic to feature a letters column regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DC really got going with war comics in 1952, reviving Star Spangled Comics as &#8220;Star Spangled War Stories&#8221; and All-American Comics as &#8220;All-American Men of War&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 1952, DC launched &#8220;Our Army At War&#8221; #1. In it, the tale &#8220;Dig Your Foxhole Deep!&#8221; written by Robert Kanigher and drawn by Irv Novick features many panels empty of dialog but filled with dread and psychological warfare. Our Army At War also features a letters column, which may be the first DC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[498,14,347,317,447,511,469],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-498","tag-dc","tag-letters-column","tag-propaganda","tag-psychology","tag-robert-kanigher","tag-war-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}