Help with comic name

September 22, 2010 12:59 PM

Help with name of '70s Comic

Can anyone help me out with the name of a 1970s (well i read it in the 70s I think), the only story I can remember is with a dead French foreign legionaires wooden hand who mysteriously crosses the desert and knock on the gates of a Fort and alerts the soldiers of a attack that is about to take place.........

I think it may have been mysterious happenings or something similar, although I cant be certain..

Any help greatly appreciated

posted by maxmix to Writing & Language (6 answers total)

Sounds like something out of the old EC comics. Could it have been a reprint?
posted by Naberius at 1:40 PM on September 22, 2010

The timeline would work if it were one of Charlton Comics' GHOSTY TALES. If you remember what the cover looked like, you may find it here

Mefi Bhob Stewart is a comic writer and was able to answer a similar enquiry for me (being one of his stories). I was blown away.
posted by bonobothegreat at 2:21 PM on September 22, 2010

and if it's not there, I'm sure it's somewhere in the cover browser (which includes a surprisingly large array of anthology horror comics).
posted by luvcraft at 3:16 PM on September 22, 2010

Sounds like something from Weird War Tales (1971-83).
posted by permafrost at 3:46 PM on September 22, 2010

Response by poster: Thanks for your replies, I'll investigate those
posted by maxmix at 2:28 PM on September 24, 2010

Your story might be a ghostly twist on the real life Battle of Cameron:

"Thanks to the heroic stand of the Foreign Legion, the French supply convoy made it safely to Puebla. The Mexicans failed to relieve the siege and the city fell on May 17.
Today "Camerone Day" is an important day for the Legionnaires, when the wooden prosthetic hand of Capitaine Danjou is brought out for display and veneration in special ceremonies at the Legion headquarters at Aubagne, France."
posted by bonobothegreat at 9:00 AM on September 26, 2010