Sergeant Rock, the Haunted Tank, the Unknown Soldier, Weird War...these were all my favorites and at least one of them deserves to be made into a movie or series!
I was reading them in the early 80's , i found a box of them on the street someone had thrown them out. I twas like 20+ of Sgt Rock and JEB Stuart. They were so fun to read.
Growing up in the 60's, Sgt Rock was my favorite comic book. Still remember hopping on my Schwinn Stingray bike and riding down to the Broad St News Agency for the latest copy and a foot long stick of Big Dad's bubble gum. . . Good memories.
I have around 25 of them. Took me 20 years of asking at flea markets and when someone finally knew what I was talking about I bought every single issue that he had. Best part? Some of the issues are early 1980’s-my childhood.
Shoot, that’s too bad. I loved Sgt. Rock. I was enthralled by the tough American GI sergeant leading his men to victory over the enemy. So much so that I joined the US Army during Vietnam because that was going to be my chance, my war to be that sergeant! Well, Vietnam and reality wasn’t the same as my escapist, imaginary heroes. I became a sergeant in the infantry but the war progressed without me being anywhere near the fights and battles like my heroes. The war passed me by and I eventually went home. Now I’m just an old man that survived a war and I watch movies of the heroes I admired as a kid. I got some memories and a few minor medals and I realized years back I was lucky to have survived and lived the life I did. Many of my war brothers and sisters didn’t. Bless them for they were the heroes.
You're lucky. My father got sent home after 5 months when he lost two fingers. He said it was a 24/7 nightmare and would have given up his hand to get out of that jungle.
WOW! You just took me back to my middle school years! And don't forget about playing Pac-Man, Defender, Phoenix , Tempest and a host of other video games at 7-11 or Stop-N-Go.
Sgt. Rock was my absolute favorite comic book series growing up. It is one reason I have been researching WW2 for over 55 years. I wish still had the comic books.
I’m with you 110% And as a fellow Easy Co brother Id let you pour through mine with all the time in the world. I have around 25 issues from the late 60’s through early 80’s. Took me dozens of flea markets to find them and at least a decade of asking
That’s the nickname we gave our platoon ssgt in Vietnam. He was killed by a booby trap dec 31 1967. His name was Robert Hallett. He was a damn fine soldier that taught a lot of us how to stay alive in that god forsaken place.Rest In Peace brother.
I loved the DC Comics SGT ROCK,The LOSERS,The Unknown Soldier,Enemy Ace and The Haunted Tank!These are truly underated showing how DC could do heroes who were ingrained in reality unlike Superman and Batman showing another type of hero....the soldier!I still hope thell do it eventually.....to show that anyone can be a hero.
Thanks! I could never remember the name Enemy Ace. Now who was the PT boat captain with the wooden leg? I'm thinking Capt. Storm but I'm not sure. I can remember Johnny Cloud tho!
@@handsuporillshoot381 I’m sure there were a lot taken from those original scripts and used in the Batman and Inglorious Bastards movies that were finally made
Yeah, right. When I heard QT was doing a war movie I went, 5 Fingers. Surely QT would have the guts. NOPE. Instead we got a mishmash of The Dirty Dozen and some kind of homage to some obscure Euro Trash indie, with a shameless rip off of The Master Sniper. Sort of how Kill Bill was an exercise in plagiarism re Sword of Vengeance, Lady Snowblood, and Sting of The Dragon Masters. And now we can look forward to a ripoff of Zatoichi. QT is the Anne Rice of action movies.
@@nomadmarauder-dw9re let’s call QT what he really is. His movies are just a mashup of other ideas that he saw. Don’t get me wrong the man knows his movie history but he steals like a kleptomaniac
I loved the Sgt Rock comic book series. They were ahead of their time. A lot like the Dirty Dozen at least the first film and the TV series Combat. Entertaining without too much propaganda.
Military Veterans and their families bear the burdens of our freedom. I too, grew up reading Sgt. Rock, GI Combat, The Unknown Soldier, Enemy Ace, The NAM, Vietnam Journal and Garth Ennis's many War Stories. It is the selfless sacrifices our soldiers make for their buddies and our freedom that makes America great. A young boy awakens early in the morning. He gets up, dresses himself and rushes downstairs to eat his breakfast. His mother has pancakes and bacon ready for him. He looks up and asks his mother, “Are we going to see Daddy today?” She looks at her young son, smiles and says, “Yes, after we eat our breakfast and clean up the dishes, we are going to see daddy.” After breakfast his mother loads a picnic lunch into their car and then buckles her young son into his car seat. They drive for several hours before pulling into a crowded parking lot. The young mother unbuckles her son from his car seat and retrieves the picnic basket from the back of their car. The mother and son begin walking across the manicured lawn among the trees that shade this peaceful place hand in hand. They pass other families as they walk to their destination. The young mother begins spreading a picnic blanket upon the ground as her young son kneels down and places his forehead against the granite grave marker and whispers, “I love you, Daddy.” The young mother turns away as tears well up in her eyes. The young boy turns to his mother and says, “Mommy don’t cry. Daddy died so his men could come home to their families. He is a hero.” The young mother turns and embraces her son as the tears stream down her cheeks. Her young son wipes the tears from his mother’s cheeks and again says, “Mommy, please don’t cry.” He suddenly stands erect with his arms down by his sides. He looks up and smiles. The young mother feels a hand upon her shoulder and she turns to see the men of her husband’s squad standing there with their families and these men’s eyes are filled with tears. They have brought their families to pay their respects to their squad leader and brother who gave his all for them. God Bless the Fallen and their families on Memorial Day and every day, revere their selflessness, their devotion and their courage. We are Americans because of their service, selflessness and ultimate sacrifices in defense of our nation and our liberty.
Even as a little kid, I was concerned that Rock carried a Thompson, but wore belt pouches for an M1, and draped belts of Browning MG ammo over his shoulder, neither of which would fit his weapon.
Sgt. Rock was my favorite comic book when I was a kid. I still remember reading them over and over while on family car trips. A Tarantino movie would really be cool, or in other words, Take my money!!!!
SGT Rock and Easy Company are my favorites of all time! It’s always been a hope to see it come to the big screen. The haunted tank is another great one!
Now i know for a FACT the DC Comics did the crossover of SGT Rock and the Unknown Soldier in the NO.157 issue of Star Spangled War where the unknown soldier helped SGT Rock and Easy Company out of a few tough situations in Italy but Rock never got to thank him causing the men in Easy Company to think he was gonna get an section 8 transfer away from the battle field until towards the ending where Rock got blinded by an tank shell when it fired and the Unknown Soldier was there to help him destroy the enemy tank but IF we do get an SGT Rock movie i hope it has that comic book scene in it
I had a subscription so Christmas came once a month LOL. I started reading Sgt Rock in the 3rd grade. I still have my collection, and if memory serves it starts around #267 and runs well past #300…?
Sgt Rock, Sgt Fury, Captain Fury , JEB Stuart the haunted tank and all the other war comics. At 72 years young I have fond memories of going to the local drugstore and getting the latest comic. I still had them is 2014 when I had a garage sale and had to leave for a little while and my neighbor, who took over while I was gone, sold the whole box of comics for a few dollars. I had mint World at War in there many other valuable comics. 😂
Geez, I remember when they were going to make this movie back in 90's and Bruce Willis was rumored to play Rock. I just wish they would actually make it before I die!!! Big 5 will always live on!!!
Best War comics in my opinion are: #1 GI Combat with JEB Stuart in the Haunted tank. #2 Sgt. Rock (I always like Bulldozer too). #3 The Unknown Soldier #4 The losers #5 Sgt. Fury #6 All out War with the Viking Commando. And Weird War Tales would be my honorable mention.
Nice list, but I would switch the first two. Sgt. Rock is one reason I enjoyed the TV series Combat so much, as the characters reminded me of those in the Rock comics
I had boxes of comics when I was a kid. Our Army at War, G.I, Combat, Our Fighting Forces, Men at War. The wildest was Star Spangled War Stories. Imagine our soldiers, sailors and marines fighting not only the Japanese but dinosaurs as well! Now THAT would make a movie.
@@daleupthegrove6396 Turok had a brief reboot. But it's a natural for modern media. LOL, there's so many channels now it's probably out there...somewhere.
I've always felt like Clint Eastwood or Joe Johnston would been the best choices to bring a adaptation of Sgt.Rock and DC's War Comics to the big screen.
Growing up in the 60's and early 70's it was all about DC and Marvel war comics. In the 1990's I discovered "Charlies War", British army WW1. Great historical accuracy, starts just before the Somme, through early 1919. Recommend it.
Yes! Half of The Losers, who fought everywhere it seems. I clearly remember one issue where they were at a French fort in North Africa…surrounded by Afrika Korps troops, facing dying of thirst AND caught in a blood feud between the French commander and his brother who was serving with the Germans. I think they were the only survivors of the situation.
I still have Sgt Rock, Haunted tank or GI Combat, Unknown Soldier comics. Bulldozer, retread, wild man the redhead, little sure shot, and the haunted tank, who’s tank commander was Jeb Steward, the unknown soldier, a man with no face only bandaged, a OSS first , great comics, maybe I’ll sell my collection one day. In the real Marine Corps in 1997, in EOD I met the real Staff Sergeant R J Rock, a real Sgt Rock. He loved the comics, but he was from Boston and his hair was black not red lol
David Webb Peoples is such an underrated screenwriter, he and his wife also wrote an adaptation of TO THE WHITE SEA (Based on a novel by the same dude that wrote Deliverance) and oh man is that one violent WWII Story.
I’d love for them to do an Enemy Ace movie. Give it a moderate budget and focus greatly on the dogfights and the feelings of war then it would be perfect.
*I was a fan and had most of the issues. Sgt Rock and GI combat are my favorites. Having been enlisted now I am most impressed by how his home had always stayed on while he was running without using a chin strap!*
As a kid i loved sgt rock and jonah hex comics. I remember buying stacks at flea markets. Like others have said, i wish I still had them...Thanks for the great video.
I grew up reading Sgt. Rock and GI Combat in the early 80s, my dad was in the Army working as a military science instructor and every month when my mom would go to the comissary at Offutt AFB to buy groceries she would always take me to the base exchange so I could get that month's issues. I'd love to see the movie made, but I'm glad Tarantino didn't make it because I feel he would have made a mockery of the story.
So Tarantino got and read the Sgt Rock draft in 1997. At some point after Jackie Brown (1997) and before shooting Kill Bill (2003-4) Tarantino began to write the early drafts of Inglourious Basterds - I wonder if it was the Sgt Rock script by the underrated David Webb Peoples that inspired Tarantino to do his own WWII movie (because Inglourious Basterds is less Saving Private Ryan and more of those pulpy war comic books (G.I. Joe, Sgt Rock, Sgt Fury, Blackhawk)
You know, I’m surprised there was never a Blackhawks film, Sgt Rock or even a Howling Commandos one. I guess Hollywood didn’t want to take a chance. There should’ve been a plethora of them after Saving Private Ryan.
Spielberg was actually going to direct a Blackhawks movie after doing Ready Player One for Warners. It was one of their big DC announcements. It would be not connected to the DCEU and possibly a one off. Sadly nothing more has been heard of it. But I hope James Gunn keeps it going. The coup of getting Spielberg to direct a comic book movie would be insane. Spielberg also once said that his favorite World War Two movie is.....Kelly's Heroes. So I'd like to think that he gets to make something like that before he stops working.
The Howling Commandos did appear briefly in one of the Marvel movies -- I've forgotten if it was Captain America or Avengers. I specifically recall recognizing Dum Dum Dugan.
@@simonKagree ah yes, Captain America: The First Avenger. I would have loved for more of this or a series of adventures, but they had to move the story to the present to have Captain America join The Avengers.
My dad used to get me these comics back in the late seventies because they said I needed to read more but I didn't want to read anything these I wanted to read not only did I read more I was learning German words and everything!
Okay, now let's make us the cast. Two categories; current, and in their prime. Sgt. Rock - Prime, Bruce Willis. Current, Tom Hardy. Bulldozer- Prime, John Cena. Current Joseph Baena Wildman- Prime, and Current Charlie Hunman Jackie Johnson - Prime, Michael Jai White, Current ? Little Sure Shot - Prime, Wes Studi, Current, ? Four Eyes- Prime, Arliss Howard (that's a no brainer), Current ? Ice Cream Soldier- Prime, Giovanni Ribisi. Current , Joseph Gordon Levitt Long Round Short Round Help me finish the list.
Wow…it was my favorite comic book as a child. Years later in the 1990s in Korea as a unit top nco, I used his phrase ‘nobody said it would be easy’ as a unit motto.
I remember Sgt Rock comics when I was 10 years old and the supposed German dialogue. I asked my mother one time what the German soldiers were saying, and she said “ Make sure you keep off the grass”, whereas the “ translation “ said “Block off and kill the Americans”!
Wow I got a good shot of nostalgia seeing all those sgt rock comic covers from my childhood …. One thing I did prefer from Sgt Fury over Sgt Rock was that the Howling Commandos were more prevalent and you came to know them better as characters, I don’t seem to recall any constant characters, I know there was but I don’t remember any compared to the Howling Commandos, who had a couple guys that even from their attire or facial hair were memorable
Yes…The Howlers were quite a collection of misfits: a black jazz musician, a former circus strongman, a Hollywood B-list actor, an English gentleman, a tough-as-nails Jew from New York, a champion Southern rodeo rider and even a German expat dissident. Quite a group…
With all that’s going on and about to take place, it might be timely. For me it was ‘Commando’ comics. I learnt to cuss and speak rudimentary German, Italian, French and Japanese. Kids of today, don’t know what they’re missing out on.
My oldest brother, Vietnam veteran, volunteered in 68/69. His nick name from our neighborhood was/is Rock. He aspired to become an Army Sargent and did. Because of this character! 👍🙌💯
Sgt Rock comics and the TV show GI Combat were my inspiration as a kid to one day be a Soldier....joined in 84 and I worked my ass off to earn the Rank of Sgt. 8 years of service and 2 Combat tours later....yeah, was the best job I ever had. Scouts Out!
Shit man! A DC movie directed by Quentin Tarantino would be incredible! I hope Gunn offers talented and iconic directors some projects when running DC Studios.
It doesn’t matter which talented director Gunn offers a project to. They’re all gonna be neutered and filtered through Gunn’s new DCU lenses. Just like Kevin Feige did with directors over at the MCU.
Sergeant Rock, the Haunted Tank, the Unknown Soldier, Weird War...these were all my favorites and at least one of them deserves to be made into a movie or series!
And the War that time forgot
Enemy Ace!
@@Albemarle7 Yeah, that was another good one!
@@j.b.macadam6516 Captain Storm.
My main comics squeeze.
Sgt. Rock and J.E.B. Stuart were some of my faves as a kid.
Gi combat was my fave in the early 70s.....good memories...
Yes indeed.
Don't forget "the Unknown Solder" too!
I was reading them in the early 80's , i found a box of them on the street someone had thrown them out. I twas like 20+ of Sgt Rock and JEB Stuart. They were so fun to read.
I still have my J.E.B Stuart haunted tank comics!!!
Growing up in the 60's, Sgt Rock was my favorite comic book. Still remember hopping on my Schwinn Stingray bike and riding down to the Broad St News Agency for the latest copy and a foot long stick of Big Dad's bubble gum. . . Good memories.
Still Just 10 cents!
Mine was a Sgt. Rock and a Dad's root beer in a frosted mug at the counter...
I read Sgt Rock as a kid in the 60s. I wish I had some of those comics today.
Same as myself. They were a good read in late 60-70s.
Same here!
I still have a few of mine. Sgt. Fury and the Unknown Soldier. Sgt. Rock was my favorite.
I have around 25 of them. Took me 20 years of asking at flea markets and when someone finally knew what I was talking about I bought every single issue that he had. Best part? Some of the issues are early 1980’s-my childhood.
@@behindthespotlight7983 That’s Awesome ! These classics belong to someone like you that can appreciate their value as art.
I read Sgt. Rock comics as a kid. My dad and most of my uncles and my friends' fathers all served in WWII.
It's currently getting developed , Daniel craig might be sgt rock and it will be connected to the dcu
Read Rock and Sgt.Fury comics religiously when I was a kid.
same
You bet! 👍
Also G.I Combat featuring The Haunted Tank, and The Unknown Soldier.
@@censorshipsucks9493 Completely forgot those two. Good Call.👍👍
Yeah back when Sgt. Fury was white.
One of my all time favourite comics! Read many a issue as a kid in the 60-70's.
Sgt. Rock and GI Combat- Haunted Tank were my favorite DC comics. I wish I had held on to them.
I never cared much for Superman or Batman or any of the other superheroes. I grew up on SGT. Rock.
I grew up on both sgt rock and sgt fury. Also weird war and ghost tank
Shoot, that’s too bad. I loved Sgt. Rock. I was enthralled by the tough American GI sergeant leading his men to victory over the enemy. So much so that I joined the US Army during Vietnam because that was going to be my chance, my war to be that sergeant! Well, Vietnam and reality wasn’t the same as my escapist, imaginary heroes. I became a sergeant in the infantry but the war progressed without me being anywhere near the fights and battles like my heroes. The war passed me by and I eventually went home. Now I’m just an old man that survived a war and I watch movies of the heroes I admired as a kid. I got some memories and a few minor medals and I realized years back I was lucky to have survived and lived the life I did. Many of my war brothers and sisters didn’t. Bless them for they were the heroes.
Thank you for your service Sir. And welcome home.
jarheads wouldve INSISTED yu join the action ,but yu did MORE, YOU JOINED ,good man
You're lucky. My father got sent home after 5 months when he lost two fingers. He said it was a 24/7 nightmare and would have given up his hand to get out of that jungle.
Man, I loved SGT Rock growing up. Probably that as well as G.I. Combat, and Weird War were my favorite DC Comics.
Easy company was the best.I loved when Joe Kubert drew hawkman was great.
HOLY MOLY !! I thought I was the only man left alive who understood that $1 in 1982 was a SGT Rock comic, a Slurpee and 1 game of Punch Out
WOW! You just took me back to my middle school years! And don't forget about playing Pac-Man, Defender, Phoenix , Tempest and a host of other video games at 7-11 or Stop-N-Go.
All these years, I was never apprised of Sgt. Rocks first name (Frank) until now. Takes me back to around 10 years old.
Sgt. Rock was my absolute favorite comic book series growing up. It is one reason I have been researching WW2 for over 55 years. I wish still had the comic books.
I’m with you 110% And as a fellow Easy Co brother Id let you pour through mine with all the time in the world. I have around 25 issues from the late 60’s through early 80’s. Took me dozens of flea markets to find them and at least a decade of asking
you can go to cons (comic book conventions) and but any comic book you want
Me too only 50 years of study for me. But damn nice to know it had a powerful effect on others
I haven't thought of Sgt. Rock in years. I loved those comics!
That’s the nickname we gave our platoon ssgt in Vietnam. He was killed by a booby trap dec 31 1967. His name was Robert Hallett. He was a damn fine soldier that taught a lot of us how to stay alive in that god forsaken place.Rest In Peace brother.
I loved the DC Comics SGT ROCK,The LOSERS,The Unknown Soldier,Enemy Ace and The Haunted Tank!These are truly underated showing how DC could do heroes who were ingrained in reality unlike Superman and Batman showing another type of hero....the soldier!I still hope thell do it eventually.....to show that anyone can be a hero.
Thanks! I could never remember the name Enemy Ace. Now who was the PT boat captain with the wooden leg? I'm thinking Capt. Storm but I'm not sure. I can remember Johnny Cloud tho!
@@jamesl.rickard1277 It was Captain Storm!
@@vaclavmacgregor2464 much obliged!
So Tarantino didn’t make Sargent Rock but after reading the script he made Inglorious Bastards. Wow, man!
Same thing happened with Matt Reeves Batman film. He scrapped Ben Affleck’s film after reading the script and made his own Batman movie.
@@handsuporillshoot381 I’m sure there were a lot taken from those original scripts and used in the Batman and Inglorious Bastards movies that were finally made
Yeah, right. When I heard QT was doing a war movie I went, 5 Fingers. Surely QT would have the guts. NOPE. Instead we got a mishmash of The Dirty Dozen and some kind of homage to some obscure Euro Trash indie, with a shameless rip off of The Master Sniper. Sort of how Kill Bill was an exercise in plagiarism re Sword of Vengeance, Lady Snowblood, and Sting of The Dragon Masters. And now we can look forward to a ripoff of Zatoichi. QT is the Anne Rice of action movies.
@@nomadmarauder-dw9re and you're the Holden Caulfield of Internet Commenters. 🥱
@@nomadmarauder-dw9re let’s call QT what he really is. His movies are just a mashup of other ideas that he saw. Don’t get me wrong the man knows his movie history but he steals like a kleptomaniac
Realllllly hope that rumoured Luca Guadagnino Sgt. Rock movie ends up coming to fruition. I can’t go through another Spielberg Black Hawks situation 😭
I remember subscribing to SGT Rock and getting monthly issues for a year at 6.00. My dad would read them late at night after we went to bed.
That's one I subscribed to as well! A month between issues seems like forever.
I loved the Sgt Rock comic book series. They were ahead of their time. A lot like the Dirty Dozen at least the first film and the TV series Combat. Entertaining without too much propaganda.
Kanigher was influenced by Combat and SGT Rock influenced Combat. Both were some of the best work of the 1960s in their respective mediums.
Military Veterans and their families bear the burdens of our freedom. I too, grew up reading Sgt. Rock, GI Combat, The Unknown Soldier, Enemy Ace, The NAM, Vietnam Journal and Garth Ennis's many War Stories. It is the selfless sacrifices our soldiers make for their buddies and our freedom that makes America great.
A young boy awakens early in the morning. He gets up, dresses himself and rushes downstairs to eat his breakfast. His mother has pancakes and bacon ready for him. He looks up and asks his mother, “Are we going to see Daddy today?” She looks at her young son, smiles and says, “Yes, after we eat our breakfast and clean up the dishes, we are going to see daddy.”
After breakfast his mother loads a picnic lunch into their car and then buckles her young son into his car seat. They drive for several hours before pulling into a crowded parking lot. The young mother unbuckles her son from his car seat and retrieves the picnic basket from the back of their car. The mother and son begin walking across the manicured lawn among the trees that shade this peaceful place hand in hand.
They pass other families as they walk to their destination. The young mother begins spreading a picnic blanket upon the ground as her young son kneels down and places his forehead against the granite grave marker and whispers, “I love you, Daddy.” The young mother turns away as tears well up in her eyes. The young boy turns to his mother and says, “Mommy don’t cry. Daddy died so his men could come home to their families. He is a hero.”
The young mother turns and embraces her son as the tears stream down her cheeks. Her young son wipes the tears from his mother’s cheeks and again says, “Mommy, please don’t cry.” He suddenly stands erect with his arms down by his sides. He looks up and smiles. The young mother feels a hand upon her shoulder and she turns to see the men of her husband’s squad standing there with their families and these men’s eyes are filled with tears. They have brought their families to pay their respects to their squad leader and brother who gave his all for them.
God Bless the Fallen and their families on Memorial Day and every day, revere their selflessness, their devotion and their courage. We are Americans because of their service, selflessness and ultimate sacrifices in defense of our nation and our liberty.
Sgt. Rock was my favorite comic book when I was a boy. I would read it, then draw my best stick man soldiers attacking the Germans
@@mattmonasmith6054 me too! Haha. Little did I know then, MY DAD FOUGHT WITH THE BAND OF BROTHERS
I have almost 3 years of SGT Rock comics, love , love , love them, they kept me entertained as a kid.
I loved war conics as a kid in the early 70's. Sgt Rock and Sgt. Fury were favorites. I would definitely watch
Even as a little kid, I was concerned that Rock carried a Thompson, but wore belt pouches for an M1, and draped belts of Browning MG ammo over his shoulder, neither of which would fit his weapon.
He did that for the rest of Easy Company...which of course should have been commanded by a Captain...but things were tough in WW2!
Sgt. Rock was my favorite comic book when I was a kid. I still remember reading them over and over while on family car trips. A Tarantino movie would really be cool, or in other words, Take my money!!!!
SGT Rock and Easy Company are my favorites of all time! It’s always been a hope to see it come to the big screen. The haunted tank is another great one!
Thank God Hollywood didn't manage to destroy Sgt. Rock.
Right on 👍
Please don't let Disney get this project! 😮
It'd be "Sgt. Woke"!
I remember riding my bike to the corner store to pick up Sgt Rock and Sad Sack, quite the gamut of soldiering.
I know this video is mostly about Tarantino, but man does that Schwarzenegger take on Sgt Fury sound like a good time!
This was mentioned in Newsweek. I remember waiting for it to happen as I was a fan of Sgt. Rock as a kid.
Sgt Rock, Unknown Soldier, so many great titles. I’d love to see an Easy Co. movie with an Unknown Soldier cameo.
Now i know for a FACT the DC Comics did the crossover of SGT Rock and the Unknown Soldier in the NO.157 issue of Star Spangled War where the unknown soldier helped SGT Rock and Easy Company out of a few tough situations in Italy but Rock never got to thank him causing the men in Easy Company to think he was gonna get an section 8 transfer away from the battle field until towards the ending where Rock got blinded by an tank shell when it fired and the Unknown Soldier was there to help him destroy the enemy tank but IF we do get an SGT Rock movie i hope it has that comic book scene in it
Somebody really needs to make this movie!
The Haunted Tank also .
Guess what
I grew up devouring Sgt. Rock comic books.
I had a subscription so Christmas came once a month LOL. I started reading Sgt Rock in the 3rd grade. I still have my collection, and if memory serves it starts around #267 and runs well past #300…?
Sgt Rock, Sgt Fury, Captain Fury , JEB Stuart the haunted tank and all the other war comics. At 72 years young I have fond memories of going to the local drugstore and getting the latest comic. I still had them is 2014 when I had a garage sale and had to leave for a little while and my neighbor, who took over while I was gone, sold the whole box of comics for a few dollars. I had mint World at War in there many other valuable comics. 😂
Geez, I remember when they were going to make this movie back in 90's and Bruce Willis was rumored to play Rock. I just wish they would actually make it before I die!!! Big 5 will always live on!!!
Creature Commando originating from Weird War tales finally got its big james gunn dcu debut
Am 67 yrs old Rock is my favorite comic also haunted Tank sgt Fury howling commandos Love all of the war comics.
Best War comics in my opinion are:
#1 GI Combat with JEB Stuart in the Haunted tank.
#2 Sgt. Rock (I always like Bulldozer too).
#3 The Unknown Soldier
#4 The losers
#5 Sgt. Fury
#6 All out War with the Viking Commando.
And Weird War Tales would be my honorable mention.
You forgot Enemy Ace!!
Nice list, but I would switch the first two. Sgt. Rock is one reason I enjoyed the TV series Combat so much, as the characters reminded me of those in the Rock comics
Fighting Marines,Army and Navy series were good
My favorite comic book character. Loved this.
I had boxes of comics when I was a kid. Our Army at War, G.I, Combat, Our Fighting Forces, Men at War. The wildest was Star Spangled War Stories. Imagine our soldiers, sailors and marines fighting not only the Japanese but dinosaurs as well! Now THAT would make a movie.
@@daleupthegrove6396 Did you have Turok, son of stone? 2 Indian braves time portaled back to dinosaur times.
@@nomadmarauder-dw9re No,but I did have a couple of Tarzan comics. My tastes were mostly war comics, Hanna-Barbera and Looney Tunes.
@@daleupthegrove6396 Turok had a brief reboot. But it's a natural for modern media. LOL, there's so many channels now it's probably out there...somewhere.
I never knew that they made a Sgt Rock animated show
I've always felt like Clint Eastwood or Joe Johnston would been the best choices to bring a adaptation of Sgt.Rock and DC's War Comics to the big screen.
I feel Joe Johnston nailed it with Captain America: The First Avenger
The guy who played the villain in James Cameron’s Avatar film would be my pick.
I use to collect those books 📚🎉😂❤❤❤❤❤
Nah. Tom Hardy. Or Jason the Fishman...
I remember years ago, this was floated and Bruce Willis was supposed to be Sgt Rock
I been waiting for a long time for this.
I read the comics since I was in primary school back in the 70's. Sad Sack, Beatle Bailey and Sgt Rock.❤
Always loved the artwork as a kid. Really drew me into the stories. Of course playing army was almost as big as cowboys!
I grew up reading Sgt. Rock. It was this Comic Book that got me to join the Marine Corps.
Growing up in the 60's and early 70's it was all about DC and Marvel war comics. In the 1990's I discovered "Charlies War", British army WW1. Great historical accuracy, starts just before the Somme, through early 1919. Recommend it.
As a kidd Sgt. Rock was my favorite comic. I would like to see a live action movie made.
I still have my collections of GI Combat and SGT Rock. Every once in a while I'll pull one out and go back to WWII!
I loved reading SGT Rock when I was a kid.
Remember Gunner and Sarge? Fighting in the Pacific.
Yes! Half of The Losers, who fought everywhere it seems. I clearly remember one issue where they were at a French fort in North Africa…surrounded by Afrika Korps troops, facing dying of thirst AND caught in a blood feud between the French commander and his brother who was serving with the Germans. I think they were the only survivors of the situation.
Yes as a six year old they were my favorites. Don’t forget Pooch as it was a dog story that kids loved like Lassie and Rin Tin Tin.
I'd like to see Michael Rooker play Sgt.Rock.
I still have Sgt Rock, Haunted tank or GI Combat, Unknown Soldier comics.
Bulldozer, retread, wild man the redhead, little sure shot, and the haunted tank, who’s tank commander was Jeb Steward, the unknown soldier, a man with no face only bandaged, a OSS first , great comics, maybe I’ll sell my collection one day. In the real Marine Corps in 1997, in EOD I met the real Staff Sergeant R J Rock, a real Sgt Rock. He loved the comics, but he was from Boston and his hair was black not red lol
David Webb Peoples is such an underrated screenwriter, he and his wife also wrote an adaptation of TO THE WHITE SEA (Based on a novel by the same dude that wrote Deliverance) and oh man is that one violent WWII Story.
This brings back many memories of reading these comic books, Sgt Rock,J.E.B. Stuart, plus many more..
I really enjoyed that; thanks for posting. God bless.
I’d love for them to do an Enemy Ace movie. Give it a moderate budget and focus greatly on the dogfights and the feelings of war then it would be perfect.
I'm not sure their is demand for a WWI Aviation movie . . . .
Ever see 'The Blue Max' (1966) with George Peppard? I always liked it
@@JohnMinehan-lx9tsI agree, but Hans Von Hammer was an interesting character and with a good script, such a movie could be a sleeper hit.
@@wilburross9709 Good movie, but Flyboys (2005) did not make money.
The graphic novel " War in Heaven " could make a good movie. Sgt. Rock actually makes an appearence it.
Ghost Tank was it for me.
Haunted Tank?
Oh yeah
Fighting Marines and The Losers were my favorites
I still have my Sgt Rock, Sgt. Fury and the Unknown Soldier comic book. They gotta be worth something by now. 🇺🇸😁
Yes yes yes make this movie I love Sgt. Rock and all the other war comics ! 🪖⚔️💣
*I was a fan and had most of the issues. Sgt Rock and GI combat are my favorites. Having been enlisted now I am most impressed by how his home had always stayed on while he was running without using a chin strap!*
My favorite comic book as a kid.
Early 70's.
I loved MSG Rock comics as a kid I had tons of them.
As a kid i loved sgt rock and jonah hex comics. I remember buying stacks at flea markets. Like others have said, i wish I still had them...Thanks for the great video.
I grew up reading Sgt. Rock and GI Combat in the early 80s, my dad was in the Army working as a military science instructor and every month when my mom would go to the comissary at Offutt AFB to buy groceries she would always take me to the base exchange so I could get that month's issues. I'd love to see the movie made, but I'm glad Tarantino didn't make it because I feel he would have made a mockery of the story.
So Tarantino got and read the Sgt Rock draft in 1997. At some point after Jackie Brown (1997) and before shooting Kill Bill (2003-4) Tarantino began to write the early drafts of Inglourious Basterds - I wonder if it was the Sgt Rock script by the underrated David Webb Peoples that inspired Tarantino to do his own WWII movie (because Inglourious Basterds is less Saving Private Ryan and more of those pulpy war comic books (G.I. Joe, Sgt Rock, Sgt Fury, Blackhawk)
Telly Savalas sure looked like Sgt. Rock in Kelly’s Hero’s.
Sgt. Rock saved my life up on the DMZ a couple of times. Catkiller42
I was a huge St. Rock fan as a kid. I think I still have a huge collection stashed somewhere,
You know, I’m surprised there was never a Blackhawks film, Sgt Rock or even a Howling Commandos one. I guess Hollywood didn’t want to take a chance. There should’ve been a plethora of them after Saving Private Ryan.
Spielberg was actually going to direct a Blackhawks movie after doing Ready Player One for Warners. It was one of their big DC announcements. It would be not connected to the DCEU and possibly a one off. Sadly nothing more has been heard of it. But I hope James Gunn keeps it going. The coup of getting Spielberg to direct a comic book movie would be insane. Spielberg also once said that his favorite World War Two movie is.....Kelly's Heroes. So I'd like to think that he gets to make something like that before he stops working.
@@davidjames579 I would like it to be a War/Sci Fi/ Fantasy film. Spielberg excels at those types of elements.
The Howling Commandos did appear briefly in one of the Marvel movies -- I've forgotten if it was Captain America or Avengers. I specifically recall recognizing Dum Dum Dugan.
@@simonKagree ah yes, Captain America: The First Avenger. I would have loved for more of this or a series of adventures, but they had to move the story to the present to have Captain America join The Avengers.
@@Supremmo Blackhawks would be ideal for that . . . .
My dad used to get me these comics back in the late seventies because they said I needed to read more but I didn't want to read anything these I wanted to read not only did I read more I was learning German words and everything!
Okay, now let's make us the cast. Two categories; current, and in their prime.
Sgt. Rock - Prime, Bruce Willis. Current, Tom Hardy.
Bulldozer- Prime, John Cena. Current Joseph Baena
Wildman- Prime, and Current Charlie Hunman
Jackie Johnson - Prime, Michael Jai White, Current ?
Little Sure Shot - Prime, Wes Studi, Current, ?
Four Eyes- Prime, Arliss Howard (that's a no brainer), Current ?
Ice Cream Soldier- Prime, Giovanni Ribisi. Current , Joseph Gordon Levitt
Long Round
Short Round
Help me finish the list.
Wow…it was my favorite comic book as a child. Years later in the 1990s in Korea as a unit top nco, I used his phrase ‘nobody said it would be easy’ as a unit motto.
I remember Sgt Rock comics when I was 10 years old and the supposed German dialogue. I asked my mother one time what the German soldiers were saying, and she said “ Make sure you keep off the grass”, whereas the “ translation “ said “Block off and kill the Americans”!
I knew a Sergeant Major Rock at Ft Bragg.
Growing up this was my favorite comic book of all the comics
Been waiting for an awesome Sgt Rock movie as long as we are for a wicked X-Men movie since like the late 80s. Still waiting.
Wow I got a good shot of nostalgia seeing all those sgt rock comic covers from my childhood ….
One thing I did prefer from Sgt Fury over Sgt Rock was that the Howling Commandos were more prevalent and you came to know them better as characters, I don’t seem to recall any constant characters, I know there was but I don’t remember any compared to the Howling Commandos, who had a couple guys that even from their attire or facial hair were memorable
Yes…The Howlers were quite a collection of misfits: a black jazz musician, a former circus strongman, a Hollywood B-list actor, an English gentleman, a tough-as-nails Jew from New York, a champion Southern rodeo rider and even a German expat dissident. Quite a group…
Would like to see a SGT Rock Series, Enjoyed the Comic Book SGT Rock, when i was Young,
Creature Commandos brought me here.
I'd like to see Quentin do a Dirty Dozen remake
movie
With all that’s going on and about to take place, it might be timely.
For me it was ‘Commando’ comics. I learnt to cuss and speak rudimentary German, Italian, French and Japanese.
Kids of today, don’t know what they’re missing out on.
I was huge Sgt Rock fan back when I was young. Shame I didn't save the comics. Always tickled that his uniform was always torn up.
The haunted tank and sgt.fury and his howlig commandos 😊
Tarantino would have killed it. Damn.
Read these when I was a kid. Loved it. Too damn bad we don't have any good, young action heroes anymore.
My oldest brother, Vietnam veteran, volunteered in 68/69. His nick name from our neighborhood was/is Rock. He aspired to become an Army Sargent and did. Because of this character! 👍🙌💯
Sgt Rock comics and the TV show GI Combat were my inspiration as a kid to one day be a Soldier....joined in 84 and I worked my ass off to earn the Rank of Sgt. 8 years of service and 2 Combat tours later....yeah, was the best job I ever had. Scouts Out!
Tom Hardy as Rock.
He can pull off accents.
Sgt. Rock was one of my favorite comics as a kid.
I love Sgt. Rock! He's awesome!
Loved Sgt. Rock as a kid in the 60s , vote Jon Berthal as lead character
Shit man! A DC movie directed by Quentin Tarantino would be incredible! I hope Gunn offers talented and iconic directors some projects when running DC Studios.
It doesn’t matter which talented director Gunn offers a project to. They’re all gonna be neutered and filtered through Gunn’s new DCU lenses. Just like Kevin Feige did with directors over at the MCU.
I would LOVE to see Edgar Wright do a DC Film
Gunn talks and talks but he doesn't walk the talk.
Would love to see this
Still have a box of SGT Rock comics…need to break those out and “re-enlist” in Easy Co.
Sgt. Rock was my childhood hero and one of my favorite comic books