Posted: 3/23/2011 7:20:30 PM EDT
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Growing up, I used to read a DC comic book, GI Combat, and its feature series was called "The Haunted Tank." It was set in WWII and the supernatural element of the series was that the tank's commander was regularly visited by the ghost of General JEB Stuart....and that his little M-3 Stuart tank always defeated much larger, better armed, and better protected German tanks.
Eventually the M-3 was shot out from under them, so the crew went to a tank scrap yard and came out of it with a jigsaw, Frankenstein tank built out of bits and pieces of other tanks. What was that tank made out of? The Christy type chasis looks like a T-34, it had a 20mm gun retrofitted into the hull, it had a 76.2mm main gun. While the hull and suspension system looks like a T-34, but the turret looks like that of a M-41 Walker Bulldog, but that can't be right because the M-41 did not come out until 1950. Any tank experts have an idea? |
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The comic started with the Stuart and then moved to a Sherman later. I still have a box of those comics someplace along with the forgotten soldier , sgt rock, and sgt fury. I also had a few of those weird war comics that were kind of cool. The one showed the americans as the bad guys in WW II .
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I used to read it extensively and in 99% sure it was a M-4 Sherman. Some references were even made to it being a "Sherman" when the TC was talking to Jeb Stuarts ghost (their guardian angel). Originally it was a Stuart, but later they were in a Sherman. I know I learned to read on the DC combat comics. Dick and Jane and Curious George bored me to tears. Which might help explain why I am the gun nut I am today. 
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From wiki:
The Haunted Tank returned in 2008 as a five-issue mini-series from Vertigo, written by Frank Marraffino, with art by Henry Flint. The new series is set during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and features the General becoming the guardian of an M1 Abrams, commanded by an African-American Lieutenant Stuart, who (at least initially) does not take kindly to the ghost's outmoded attitudes and language concerning his race. The mini-series serves as an acerbic, no-holds barred satire about an entire gamut of racism both casual and institutionalized.
Here is a link to the 2008 issue available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Tank-Frank-Marraffino-Writer/dp/0857680722/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300974395&sr=1-3 
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From wiki: The Haunted Tank returned in 2008 as a five-issue mini-series from Vertigo, written by Frank Marraffino, with art by Henry Flint. The new series is set during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and features the General becoming the guardian of an M1 Abrams, commanded by an African-American Lieutenant Stuart, who (at least initially) does not take kindly to the ghost's outmoded attitudes and language concerning his race. The mini-series serves as an acerbic, no-holds barred satire about an entire gamut of racism both casual and institutionalized.
Here is a link to the 2008 issue available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Tank-Frank-Marraffino-Writer/dp/0857680722/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300974395&sr=1-3
No thanks. I prefer to keep the fond memories of my childhood intact. |
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The OP is right, they did have a frankentank for a few issues or a couple of years. I remember reading one issue where the Pentagon liked the design but sent them to the Aleutian islands to test it out in the cold before they made them for general use.
But most of the Haunted Tank issues I read had them in a Stuart or a Sherman. I read something here on Arfkom that said Stuart production was actually larger than Sherman. I wonder if they just chose to to use most of them since they were outclassed by Normandy. |
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From wiki: The Haunted Tank returned in 2008 as a five-issue mini-series from Vertigo, written by Frank Marraffino, with art by Henry Flint. The new series is set during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and features the General becoming the guardian of an M1 Abrams, commanded by an African-American Lieutenant Stuart, who (at least initially) does not take kindly to the ghost's outmoded attitudes and language concerning his race. The mini-series serves as an acerbic, no-holds barred satire about an entire gamut of racism both casual and institutionalized.
Here is a link to the 2008 issue available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Tank-Frank-Marraffino-Writer/dp/0857680722/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300974395&sr=1-3
Also DC did a story line of the duaghter of the tank commander of WW2 who commanded a prototype tank in recent years. |
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From wiki: The Haunted Tank returned in 2008 as a five-issue mini-series from Vertigo, written by Frank Marraffino, with art by Henry Flint. The new series is set during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and features the General becoming the guardian of an M1 Abrams, commanded by an African-American Lieutenant Stuart, who (at least initially) does not take kindly to the ghost's outmoded attitudes and language concerning his race. The mini-series serves as an acerbic, no-holds barred satire about an entire gamut of racism both casual and institutionalized.
Here is a link to the 2008 issue available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Tank-Frank-Marraffino-Writer/dp/0857680722/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300974395&sr=1-3
No thanks. I prefer to keep the fond memories of my childhood intact. No kidding. That sounds like shit. Must race be injected into everything? (There were only two reviews on Amazon, and both panned it.) |
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Quoted: Quoted: From wiki: The Haunted Tank returned in 2008 as a five-issue mini-series from Vertigo, written by Frank Marraffino, with art by Henry Flint. The new series is set during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and features the General becoming the guardian of an M1 Abrams, commanded by an African-American Lieutenant Stuart, who (at least initially) does not take kindly to the ghost's outmoded attitudes and language concerning his race. The mini-series serves as an acerbic, no-holds barred satire about an entire gamut of racism both casual and institutionalized. Here is a link to the 2008 issue available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Tank-Frank-Marraffino-Writer/dp/0857680722/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300974395&sr=1-3 No thanks. I prefer to keep the fond memories of my childhood intact. Black tank commander arguing with Jeb Stuart's ghost over the ghost's use of racially insensitive terms for african americans? I think I'd rather read the the updated gay version of the Rawhide Kid..... or have my balls mashed with a hammer  |
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The comic started with the Stuart and then moved to a Sherman later. I still have a box of those comics someplace along with the forgotten soldier , sgt rock, and sgt fury. I also had a few of those weird war comics that were kind of cool. The one showed the americans as the bad guys in WW II . Unknown Soldier. |
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Created in G.I. Combat by the brilliant Bob Kanigher and the terrific Russ Heath, and later featuring art by the extremely talented Joe Kubert, The Haunted Tank is a charming little series about a guy named Jeb Stuart, who commands an M3 Stuart tank that’s haunted by his ancestor, Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart. Together, they fight Nazis in World War II. Jeb’s crew thinks he’s crazy when he talks about the ghost, but hey, he’s a damn fine tank commander, so they go along with it. In later stories, they’d upgrade to an M4 Sherman tank.
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Created in G.I. Combat by the brilliant Bob Kanigher and the terrific Russ Heath, and later featuring art by the extremely talented Joe Kubert, The Haunted Tank is a charming little series about a guy named Jeb Stuart, who commands an M3 Stuart tank that’s haunted by his ancestor, Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart. Together, they fight Nazis in World War II. Jeb’s crew thinks he’s crazy when he talks about the ghost, but hey, he’s a damn fine tank commander, so they go along with it. In later stories, they’d upgrade to an M4 Sherman tank.
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/Haunted%20Tank%208.jpg Got to add the two 45's just to be sure to flame that zero......... 
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I remember watching an old black and white tv show years ago called COMBAT! and it was pretty graphic and real for something on basic cable. Think I'll look that up on netflix in a bit. I remembered that too. Bought the videos. It has not aged well. Boring. Constant whining. |
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I remember watching an old black and white tv show years ago called COMBAT! and it was pretty graphic and real for something on basic cable. Think I'll look that up on netflix in a bit. I remembered that too. Bought the videos. It has not aged well. Boring. Constant whining. I will have to politly disagree. I watched the series Combat! when it was on originally. I rented several of the DVDs from Netflix recently and found the series to be much as I remembered. Still enjoyable to me. 
As for The Haunted Tank, that was one of the comics I purchased back in the day. Good stories. Also Sgt. Rock and some others that folks above have mentioned. |
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I remember watching an old black and white tv show years ago called COMBAT! and it was pretty graphic and real for something on basic cable. Think I'll look that up on netflix in a bit. I remembered that too. Bought the videos. It has not aged well. Boring. Constant whining. LOL, yeah some of the characters tended to goof off, whined, tended toward shamming if possible. Then I remembered some of the soldiers and marines I worked with in my 9 years of service. It's legit! Haunted tank was my all time favorite comic book followed by Sgt. Rock. I remember one issue where they found a whole bunch of US money that the germans had and they took it, lost most of it and had one last $1000 bill they used to start a fire under the oil pan to start the tank. |
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I remember in one of the GI combat issues there was a story told from the perspective of a canteen. It was pretty cool. There was one told by the combat web belt too; the solder uses it to beat down some German's and take their guns. I can't believe I remember that. 
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