Men of War

"The Three Faces of Death"

Cover Date November 1977
Issue #3
Pages 6
Type Original Story
Cover Price 35¢
Featured Character Hans von Hammer
Also Featuring The Wild Boar; Schultze (who is killed in this story by the Boar); The Black Wolf

Synopsis

Schultze, a recurring presence in von Hammer's Jagdstaffel, is killed, not by the enemy, but by the Wild Boar. The revelation reshapes the dynamic among the German pilots and forces von Hammer to confront what it means to command men who are endangered by the war's own internal fractures as much as by the Allies. The Black Wolf moves through the margins as witness.

Collector Notes

The death of Schultze is one of the more structurally unexpected moments in the Men of War run. Kanigher uses the Wild Boar not as a conventional nemesis but as a vector for chaos within the German air service itself, a reminder that the war's brutality doesn't organize itself into clean opposing sides.

Creative Team

Writer Robert Kanigher
Penciler Ed Davis
Inker Juan Ortiz