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Day 20,359

Prompt – “Ghost” I first read about the haunted tank back in the day, but there is no way I’m adding a Confederate flag to a picture these days. The Haunted Tank was originally a Stuart and was haunted by its namesake. During its tour of duty, it became a strange “jigsaw tank,” sort of A-Team-ed together at a junkyard into a souped-up hot rod of a war machine. Later, when the crew switched to a Sherman tank, the ghost had a little changing of the guard to the new vehicle to stay with his living human descendant, Jeb, despite the ghost of General Sherman wanting the right to possess the tank named for him. I had a lot of luck picking up old copies of G.I. Combat back in the day from the 10-for-a-dollar bins at the comic book store when I was a kid. Those long boxes were full of very worn, often coverless remnants of collections that had been brought in, and whatever was left over after the owner had bagged and boarded the stuff that wasn’t completely ruined. The dime bins eventually turned into quarter bins, then 3-for-a-buck or more. I don’t even know if they exist at comic stores anymore because space is at a premium. All I know is that that is where I got my first taste of books like “Weird War Tales”, “Plop!” and black-and-white Warren magazines, and I’m thankful for it. When you are a little kid with maybe three bucks on you, that would get you a serious pile of loot to read, with enough money left on you to pick up a coke at the gas station on the way home. #doodle #ghost #hauntedtank #dccomics #bronzeagemonsters #warcomics #gicombat #mdwc24d30ghost #mdwc24d30 #mdwc24 #jebstuart #shermantank https://www.instagram.com/p/DBwlc_9Ryo4/?igsh=MWUzNXRheHZlcjBzdQ==