15 eur + 2.70 eur portes (livro de 980 gramas, 1.90 eur de portes envio editorial + .80 eur envelope almofadado)

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Archie Goodwin – Blazing Combat – Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, 2009, 1ª edição absoluta da reedição dos 4 números num só volume/complete series, 207 páginas.

Livro em bom estado, tem apenas alguma perda de tinta nos ângulos das capas e na lombada (fotos 1 a 3)

De resto, sem sublinhados, notas ou assinaturas de posse. Páginas impecáveis, papel de alta qualidade, ainda cheira a novo.

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First time hardcover complete B & W reprint of the only four issues - originally published by James Warren in 1965 and 66.

Written by Archie Goodwin and drawn by such luminaries as Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, John Severin, Alex Toth, Al Williamson, Russ Heath, Reed Crandall and Gene Colan

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Blazing Combat was an American war-comics magazine published quarterly by Warren Publishing from 1965 to 1966.

Written and edited by Archie Goodwin, with artwork by such industry notables as Gene Colan, Frank Frazetta, John Severin, Alex Toth, and Wally Wood, it featured war stories in both contemporary and period settings, unified by a humanistic theme of the personal costs of war, rather than by traditional men's-adventure motifs.

Early cancellation
The premiere issue of Blazing Combat reached newsstands in mid-1965, during a troop-escalation period years before American public sentiment would turn against the Vietnam War.

Publisher James Warren said that, from the beginning, wholesale magazine distributors cautioned him that the magazine's anti-war stance presented a sales obstacle.

As Warren recalled in a 1999 interview, "[H]ere is my distributor, saying, 'Uh oh! Wait until our wholesalers — many of them belonging to the American Legion — see this!' They found out very fast that it was anti-war".

Warren said the second issue's Vietnam-set story "Landscape", by writer Goodwin and artist Orlando, solidified wholesalers' stance against the magazine.

According to Warren, the American Legion began a campaign to let the magazine sit on distributor shelves rather than be sent to the buying public.

The armed forces, which were at the time a major purchaser of B&W comic magazines, began to refuse to sell Blazing Combat on their bases or PXs, due to its perceived anti-war stance.

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Critic Jason Sacks, in his review of the book The Warren Companion, refers to Blazing Combat as "the finest war comics since the EC days", while comic-book historian Richard Arndt assesses Blazing Combat as, "Probably the best war comic ever published".

Writer and critic Steve Stiles, in an overview of writer-editor Archie Goodwin's career, said, "The stories were both gritty and realistic ... showing the true horror of war".

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"Blazing Combat collects some of the most beautiful black and white comic art you have ever seen... It also features interviews and some of the most beautiful printing I have seen. From cover to cover, this book is what keeps me in comics." — Newsarama

"Blazing Combat constitutes a high-water mark of the war-comics genre." — Booklist

"Although the subject matter is bleak, the presentation it's been given is beautiful. This is as good as war comics get." — Bookgasm

"The Blazing Combat cartoonists made powerful contributions to the literature of war. ... Both civilians and veterans may welcome this anthology of comic book stories." — Spectrum Culture

"Blazing Combat reprints all 4 issues of the ground-breaking war series. These are fascinating stories, drawn by some of the top talent in comics, who did some of their finest works for this short-lived publication. The design work is A+." — Innocent Bystander