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Rebellion to Publish Alan Hebden and Eric Bradbury's Death Squad, From Battle Picture Weekly

Published Sun, 08 Dec 2019 12:00:38 -0600

Death Squad was a comic book strip created by Alan Hebden and Eric Bradbury that ran in the British comic Battle Pictures Weekly in the early eighties, featuring a bunch of German no-hopers on the Eastern Front of World War II, finding a way to survive against the Russian Army.

A comic book full of war stories, it was one of a handful that took the novelty of telling World War II stories from the German perspective, and got Carlos Ezquerra to draw the comic for a Battle Annual.

Battle Pictures Weekly was a heavy influence on the work of Garth Ennis and Rebellion are using that for promotional purposes.

Here's a look at the comic book ahead.

Death Squad Paperback – August 18, 2020
by Alan Hebden, Carlos Ezquerra, Eric Bradbury

An all-out all-action, complete-in-one brutal war story from the pages of the classic war comic, Battle, hugely influential on Preacher and The Boys creator Garth Ennis. Meet the deadliest band of fighters on the Eastern Front! During World War Two the Eastern Front was hell on Earth. German Punishment Battalions were thrown into the thick of the conflict where they were expected to fight well and die-hard. In these harshest of conditions only the strongest warriors survived. Enter the Death Squad – Grandad, Swede, Licker, Gus and Frankie. Alone they were failures and outcasts, but together they were one of the most formidable combat units the Russians ever faced!

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