By 1969, all three features were yesterday’s news. Kanigher was apparently fond of all of them, though; he brought them together as “The Losers” in an issue of G.I. Combat. A few months later, the Losers replaced Lt. Hunter’s Hellcats as the stars of Our Fighting Forces; the hallmarks of their series were severe pessimism and kick-ass cover design, often by supreme war artist Joe Kubert.
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It’s not clear exactly why Jack Kirby took over as writer/artist of Our Fighting Forces in 1974–although it may have something to do with the fact that his contract at that point required him to produce 15 pages a week. The twelve issues he created, recently collected as The Losers by Jack Kirby, are probably his least-heralded ’70s work, but they’ve got the blunt force of the more fantastic comics (like Kamandi and OMAC) that he was drawing at the time, and occasional bursts of extreme Kirby weirdness.
