Nick Peron

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Combat Kelly #29

Combat Kelly

Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak are driving a truck across Kora when they are suddenly attacked by a massive Chinese built tank. Trying to shoot it with bullets and blast it with their bazooka they find that the device is impervious to their weapons. They are ordered to surrender, but when the two attempt to flee they are captured in a net.

Combat and Cookie are taken aboard where the commanding officer shows them that the interior of the tank is a massive weapons manufacturing plant. He then tells the two Americans that they are going to be forced to help build more tanks so that they can win the war with their massive, indestructible tanks.

However, Combat and Cookie jump the captain and flee into the control room where they take control of the tank. They then use it to crush an enemy base, and bridge. Driving it into safety, Combat finds the tanks weak spot: a single bolt. Pulling the bolt out, the entire tank crumbles to base, Combat and Cookie return to base.

Recurring Characters

  • Combat Kelly

  • Cookie Novak

The Last Attack

Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak battle with Nazi forces in Italy, the battle taking them into a nearby house where they are then knocked out by an unseen man, who then flees out a window. Coming around the two Americans spot the man just as he climbs into a government car to try and get away. Combat and Cookie jump out the window and onto the roof of the car as it speeds away. Narrowly avoiding getting shot by their own men who fire on the car.

The driver then tries to get the two soldiers off the roof of the car by crashing into a tree. Combat and Cookie are launched off the car but are unharmed. When the car in turn tries to run Combat down, he ducks under it and places a grenade on its unprotected underside. The resulting blast disables the car and Combat and Cookie rush to the disabled car and are shocked to see that the occupants are none other than Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petaccui. They learn that the ousted dictator is fleeing the country with a load of jewels.

Mussolini then offers the two Americans some of his stolen riches in exchange for help to get him out of the country. Combat refuses slapping Benito around until a motorcycle gang of Nazis attack them. While Combat and Cookie are busy blasting away the enemy soldiers Mussolini and Petaccui flee the scene. When Cookie asks if they should go after them, but Combat decides not too, telling Cookie that they will face justice some day. Sure enough, the next day Mussolini and Claretta are executed by the Italian people.

Recurring Characters

  • Combat Kelly

  • Cookie Novak

  • Benito Mussolini