Description: Indicia title is "DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP, No. 1049." Adapted from the 1959 movie "Don't Give Up the Ship." Photo cover of John Paul Steckler VII (as played by Jerry Lewis). Preview with photos. Don't Give Up The Ship, script by Eric Freiwald and Robert Schaefer, art by Dan Spiegle; When the Navy asks for appropriations, Congressman Mandeville demands to know the whereabouts of an unaccounted-for destroyer escort, the USS Kornblatt from World War II, as an excuse to deny funding; Vice-Admiral P. T. Bludde sends for Lt. John Paul Steckler, who was the man who last signed off on the ship; Steckler, a bumbler, was the lowest ranking officer left when the ship left Pearl Harbor and he managed to run the ship on a reef near an island; Steckler goes ashore, only to find it occupied by Japanese soldiers who don't know the war is over; His crew thinks he's dead and sails to San Diego. A quiz to match illustrated words with their meaning in Naval slang. Silhouettes of various types of Navy ships on back cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Type: Comic Book
Format: Single Issue
Tradition: US Comics
Publisher: Dell Comics
Genre: Non-Fiction, Humor/Satire, Military
Publication Year: 1959
Language: English
Era: Silver Age (1956-69)
Artist/Writer: Dan Spiegle, Robert Schäfer, Eric Freiwald
Character: Ens. Rita J. Benson, Stan "Sailor" Wychinski, Vice-Admiral Bludde, Prudence Steckler, John Paul Steckler VII (Photo of Jerry Lewis), John Paul Steckler VII, Congressman Mandeville
Series Title: Four Color
Issue Number: 1049
