Slightly Misplaced Comics Hero Case Files #19: The Kid Guerrillas Of Unit 3

The only decent pic I could find on Google Images of these characters.

Last week on my unofficial “dead and back again” column for Tuesdays, I wrote about the return of Bucky Barnes and the more troubling aspects of the character.  He was, at first blush, a kid taken into a war zone.  Writer Ed Brubaker really worked on that to make the character more acceptable (he was 16, but on the older side, and very well-trained, so not an ideal situation but also not a small child).

That doesn’t even scratch the surface of what was wrong with the Kid Guerrillas of Unit 3.

Doing It Right: The Resurrection Of Bucky Barnes

Bringing dead characters back to life in comic books is a given.  Readers generally don’t even really believe it when major heroes die anymore.  We expect them to come back.

I mean, technically, they’re just drawings on pages, so they can be revived rather easily.  You just need a good reason.

How, then, did Marvel pull off resurrecting a character that had been dead for decades in a way that actually worked?

Slightly Misplaced Comics Heroes Case Files #2: The Unknown Soldier

“Hey, Unknown Soldier, STOP HELPING THE NAZIS!”

He was a mystery man, a soldier and assassin who made Axis agents tremble during World War II.  He also had no name.  That was deliberate.

He was…the Unknown Soldier!