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Biggest WTF moment of reading Weird War Tales yet. Experimental child supersoldiers exploding like skin balloons after turning on their mind-controlling Nazi masters. I wish there was more Fred Carrillo stuff available to me. #comicscode #creaturecommandos #balloonbabies #axelwtf Weird War Tales #102 , August 1981 – THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE WRITER J.M. DeMatteis PENCILER / INKER Fred Carrillo COLORIST Adrienne Roy LETTERER Esphidy Mahilum EDITOR Len Wein Several German parents were brought to a school, where their children beat them to death, much to their surprise. Then, they were personally congratulated by a man who appeared to be Hitler. Outside of the schoolhouse, “Colonel Kruger” (actually Lieutenant Shrieve), accompanied by the Creature Commandos, attacked Nazi soldiers guarding after their cover was blown when Griffith transformed. As their attack began, Shrieve thought about his time in a London war room twenty-fours earlier. Shrieve briefed the Creature Commandos on the Nazis injecting highly susceptible German schoolchildren with drugs that would give them superhuman strength. Then, he explained his plan to impersonate Colonel Emil Kruger, the mastermind of the plot, to inject German schoolchildren. “Hitler” watched his troops fight the Creature Commandos and flicked a switch that activated a trapdoor that took them to a gas chamber, where they were knocked unconscious. They were later taken to a camp, where they met “Hitler” (actually a double, as revealed by Shrieve), who told them that he had given the students an assignment to kill them. During the fight, Velcro scared one of the schoolchildren, Axel, freeing him of the Nazis’ control. Then, an angry Axel attacked the Hitler double for making him kill his mother, while the other schoolchildren subsequently revolted, as well. As the children beat up the Nazis, the chemicals from the drug that was injected into them caused them to inflate, destroying their bodies. Then, the Creature Commandos destroyed the camp before running away. @bronzeagemonsters

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