Number 720


Hitler's birthday


Adolf Hitler's 121st birthday is April 20. We know that Hitler died a suicide on April 30, 1945, but at least one of these Hitler stories from Atlas Comics' Battle shows us different.

Well, that's because it's a comic book and not real life...or would that be real death? Both of these stories, the first by Russ Heath in Battle #16, and the second, by Werner Roth in Battle #17, 1953, play loose with the truth while mixing in some real people and events for verisimilitude. Factual or not, they are both dramatic and well drawn.