The Mentis Flatuscence

This is my ongoing personal project tracing the Pacific War Theatre depictions in American and British comics of the 1940s.

In run up to Bataan and Corregidor Day on April 9: Sub-Mariner smashes an uprising at Manilla (sic) 1942 #WWII #DayofValor #ArawngKagitingan

January 24, 1941 The Sub-Mariner Smashes Uprising At Manila

Fox Features Syndicate, Inc. 1951: The Bataan fell, Gen. MacArthur’s statement read…”The Bataan force went out as it would have wished, fighting to the end its flickering, forlorn hope. To the weeping mothers of its dead the sacrifice and halo of Jesus of Nazareth has descended upon their sons, and that God will take them unto himself.”

GEEK SHOUTOUT: Philippine National Day of Valor. “Bataan Falls, April 9th, 1942” Cover to Marvel Premiere: Liberty Legion!