Hitler Vs. The Walking Dead

Aside from its hit Vampirella magazine, Warren Publishing also had a few other horror anthologies. The creators of Famous Monsters Of Filmland had a comics publication titled Creepy hosted by the ghoulish Uncle Creepy, and there was a sister title called Eerie with the equally cryptic Cousin Eerie as its acting emcee. Russ Jones acted as the first editor after convincing publisher James Warren to come out with its first horror compilation in the spirit of Tales From The Crypt while avoiding the highbrowed Comics Code by printing the stories in black and white magazine format. One short but memorable story in Issue 35 got right to the point that many comic fans look for, zombies vs. Nazis! Army Of The Walking Dead came out over thirty years before Robert Kirkman's iconic urban horror comic and was drawn by former Captain America artist Syd Shores. Taking place during WWII, Nazi egghead Dr. Tumbler has developed a way to reanimate dead soldiers as zombies with augmented strength much to the delight of a characteristic Hitler. The undead troopers help advance the Nazis on the battlefield that Hitler does a little jig over claiming that they'll rule the world within a year. However, the zombies are so brainless that they begin to attack their own forces, so Tumbler is taken to the battlefront by Major Sporich to get the Nazi ghouls under control. Sporich crashes the plane he flies Tumbler to, but the deadly doctor can't order his creations as his jaw is broken and gets skewered by a zombie with a bayonet. Hitler orders the entire site to be bombed supposedly destroying all the zombies, so there's no one left alive to redo Tumbler's experiments. Maybe the Fuhrer will have better luck with the Ark of the Covenant than just recruiting his dead minions and letting them go all Resident Evil on their fellow soldiers.