Combat Kelly #19 — Nick Peron

Aug 31

Aug 31 Combat Kelly #19

Combat Kelly

Riding their motorcycle toward a Chinese roadblock with the gorilla soldier Muktong Mollie waiting, Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak try to hop it but end up bailing out. However, they end up crashing their motorcycle in a nearby river. Surfacing they witness as some soldiers dive down to try and get them, but they knock them out by diving down and holding up rocks. A raft full of Chinese soldiers then swims after them and as Combat and Cookie scramble to get away they are shocked to witness Muktong Mollie order her gorilla fighters to mow down the Chinese soldiers. They are then scooped up in a net, and when Combat inquires why she spared their lives Mollie reveals that a wanted poster offering 10,000 Wan for their capture, alive. She explains that she has captured them in order to collect the reward.

She takes them to the headquarters of Colonel Feng who had put the price out for Combat and Cookie's heads. There they are dumped into a pit to be crushed to death by an octopus to pay for the frustrations that they have caused the Chinese in taking over Korea. Combat and Cookie are no match for the giant octopus, but are surprised when Muktong Mollie dives into the water and stabs the giant beast to death. Pulling them out of the water, Mollie explains that her only interest is in money and that she rescued them so that she can claim a larger reward after the fact.

Taking advantage of the situation, Combat and Cookie jump some guards outside of the cave near Feng's cabin and take their guns. They then mow down Feng and his men. Raiding their safe Combat finds a large cache of Wen currency. He gives it to Mollie in exchange for her giving them cover fire while they flee the Chinese troops that come to stop them from escaping.

Recurring Characters

Combat Kelly
Cookie Novak
Muktong Mollile

Combat Kelly

Somewhere along the Siegfried Line in Europe, Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak battle Nazi forces. Blasting away ground troops they are forced to take cover some dragon teeth tank defences as a German gunners fire at them. Eventually German troops arrive and take Kelly and Novak prisoner. Their commanding officer shows off the various dragon teeth, gunner boxes, artillery cannons and trenches that have been set up to stop American tanks from advancing across the Siegfried Line. When the two Americans insult Hitler the commanding officer orders them executed. However, Combat and Cookie fight back and flee to a pile of artillery shells and toss them at the enemy troops knocking them out.

They then rush into the gun box and blast away the enemy troops and the dragon teeth. Spotting an abandoned German Tiger tank, Combat and Cookie jam it in the trench so that it can be used as a make-shift bridge for arriving American tanks. With most of their defences decimated the arriving reinforcements make short work of the Germans and Combat and the others advance further down the line.

Recurring Characters

Combat Kelly
Cookie Novak

Combat Kelly

Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak have been captured by some Chinese soldiers. The commanding officer hangs them upside down from a tree and demands that they give him secrets. Kelly refuses to talk and the commander decides to wait them out. Suddenly, Yamakayaka arrives and beats the commander and sends him fleeing for reinforcements. Yama takes down his friends just as reinforcements arrive, Yama beats them to death and tosses their leader off a cliff where he falls his death on the top of a Chinese supply truck that is part of a convoy.

When enemy troops rush up to see what is happening, Combat and Cookie quickly put on Chinese uniforms and pretend like they have taken Yamakayaka prisoner. They are loaded up in the back of the last truck in the convoy and the trio then systematically kill the drivers aboard, then leap to the next truck in the convoy and disable that truck as well until there is only one left.

When the last truck arrives they overhear how the enemies on the front line are in desperate need of ammunition to hold off an American advancement. However when the commanding officer at the site realizes that there is only one truck left he uses his last bullet to shoot the driver for his failure and then orders his men to surrender to the arriving American troops.