Combat Kelly #25 — Nick Peron

Aug 31

Aug 31 Combat Kelly #25

Combat Kelly

After locating the secret location of enemy rocket launchers, Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak have stolen a Chinese motorcycle to try and escape. However a log placed in their path causes them to wreck their bike. Fighting back, Combat and Cookie are knocked out by their own getaway vehicle. When they come to they find themselves locked in a jail cell. The cell door is picked by Cathy Collins the daughter of Colonel Collins. She explains she has been captured by gorilla soldiers.

Learning that she picked the lock with a bobby pin the trio decide to work together to get out. Finding the rockets again, Cookie is about to throw a rock on them when Combat points out the explosion will alert them of their location, and decide instead to sabotage their guidance systems. However when they get close enough they are at a loss as to figure out how to do it until Cathy suggests they try using her bobby pin again.

They are spotted by the enemy soldiers and are forced to flee. The commanding officer orders the rockets launched and are surprised when the rockets turn around and blow them all up. Meanwhile, Combat, Cookie and Cathy escape in a rickshaw running directly into a jeep driven by her father. The colonel thanks the two grunts for saving his daughter and Cathy rewards them with a kiss.

Recurring Characters

Combat Kelly
Cookie Novak

Operation Torch

On November 8, 1942, Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak were part of a squad in Africa that were the front line to stop Operation Torch, a Nazi operation to take over North Africa. They watch as an army of German Tiger Tanks advance on their position. Combat and Cookie use their grenades to disable one of the tanks. Dropping down they manage to keep out of firing range of the tank's machine guns and get close enough to slay the soldiers inside.

Taking control of the crippled tank, they find that it's cannons are still in working order and use them to blast the other advancing tanks. However they suddenly take a hit, but survive the blast and are forced to surrender to the Nazis. They are then forced to enter another tank and lead another Nazi battalion so that their own forces attack and reveal their position. However as Combat and Cookie advance forward they use one of the tank's mirrors to send a Morse Code message to the troops warning them on the trap and not to attack.

Combat and Cookie advance past where their fellow troops are kept and when the Nazi tanks follow behind them they are blasted away, foiling their operation.