Knights of the Skull

Knights of the Skull #1-3

by Wayne Vansant

Tales of the Waffen SS and here award winning comic writer and artist Wayne Vansant provides the stories of the German Panzer troops during World War II. This edition collects for the first time Wayne's previous tales that were released as individual comics or as short tales. Included is the acclaimed Battle Group Peiper and how the infamous German commander during the Battle of the Bulge committed one of the greatest atrocities against American soldiers. Also three short tales of young German tank soldiers that experience the horrors of war and this is capped off by the story of the "Witches' Cauldron", the incredible saga of the Cherkassy Pocket battle between retreating German forces and the Soviet army on the Eastern Front.

Genres: Comics

104 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2014

About the author

I was born and raised near Atlanta, GA, and served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. I graduated from the Atlanta College of Art in 1975 and have had many jobs, including being a salesman, security guard, milk delivery man, and the Director of Security for a large art museum.

I began my writing and illustration career in 1986 with Marvel Comics' "Savage Tales" and "The 'Nam." Since then I have written and/or illustrated many books and comics on historical/military subjects such as Battle Group Peiper, Days of Darkness, Antietam: The Fiery Trial (commissioned by the National Park Service), Blockade: The Civil War at Sea, The War in Korea, The Hammer and the Anvil (profiling Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass), Normandy (profiling D-Day and the entire Normandy Campaign), Gettysburg (profiling the Battle of Gettysburg), and many others.

I am currently working on graphic histories of the Battle of the Bulge, Manfred von Richthofen, aka the Red Baron, and and am finishing up my Russian Front trilogy entitled Katusha: Girl Soldier of the Patriotic War, which is currently available as an eBook on Comics Plus, a leading comics book app.

Reviews

[Hiro Watanabe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great comic! Excellent artwork and stories. The only con: they are black and white.

[Matthew · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book would have worked better if it had been published in the same volume as Vansant's graphic history of the Battle of the Bulge where it would have served as a compliment to the history depicted there.