Devildogs Three Stooges

Just prior to the historic attack on Pearl Habor, the trigger-happy fanatics at Great Comics Publishing in late 1941 had a pair of tales running in the first two issues of their ironically named Great Comics. The story of the Devildogs Three was drawn by Rudy Palais who also graced other Golden Age comics like Blackhawk, Doll Man, and Phantom Lady. This trio of marines were made up of Tex Burton, Pete Perkins, and Windy Wyeth who are a team of specialists that get called in on suicide missions that no other soldier is man enough to even try. Their first chapter has them on a rescue mission in the Panama jungle to save some army engineers captured by a Nazi patrol. The Devildogs are infamous enough that random plainclothes troops in the field notice the plane they're using which gets called in on and shot at. Tex flies the plane while Pete and Windy parachute out as they use blitz tactics against the actual Nazis to free the prisoners, thus hoisting them with their own petard. Their next chapter brings the Devildogs into more of an espionage case on a night out at a Panama City cafe where a leggy girl seems to be giving them a false code via tapdancing. Tex learns that the tip was phony and that the Nazis are planning an attack on the Chiriqui gulf. Pete manages to sneak onboard an enemy vessel to sabotage their efforts as the rest of the team gets the boat to crash into an oil bridge, although it's all due to the dumb luck they had of catching a bogus message sent by a klutzy dancing girl. Considering the adventures of these three stooges happened just prior to America officially entering WWII, it's difficult to see if Great Comics was trying to bring reverence to our military, or if whoever the writer was might have been a first-rate Nostradamus.