68 (SIXTY EIGHT) (2011)
"On February 13, 1968, during the darkest days of the Vietnam conflict, the gates of hell opened wide, unleashing new and hungry life into the countless war-torn dead. The horrors of war take a back seat as an American tunnel rat crawls into a Viet Cong warren turned undead slaughterhouse, rotting snipers fire their final bullets from treetop perches, and freshly filled body bags twitch and rise from the slab. There are zombies in the razor wire Horror comics creators NAT JONES, MARK KIDWELL and JAY FOTOS return to the jungles of Vietnam, expanding the zombie epic started in the original one-shot '68 with this four-issue mini-series of undead military horror. Each issue features multiple covers by Jones and Fotos, full 22-page stories in series continuity and a bonus 4-page short that expands on the zombie-infected world of 1968 by horror titan Tim Vigil. Welcome to 1968 and the end of the world."
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68 (SIXTY EIGHT) #1 (OF 4) CVR A NAT JONES
"On February 13, 1968, during the darkest days of the Vietnam conflict, the gates of hell opened wide, unleashing new and hungry life into the countless war-torn dead. The horrors of war take a back seat as an American tunnel rat crawls into a Viet Cong warren turned undead slaughterhouse, rotting snipers fire their final bullets from treetop perches, and freshly filled body bags twitch and rise from the slab. There are zombies in the razor wire Horror comics creators NAT JONES, MARK KIDWELL and JAY FOTOS return to the jungles of Vietnam, expanding the zombie epic started in the original one-shot '68 with this four-issue mini-series of undead military horror. Each issue features multiple covers by Jones and Fotos, full 22-page stories in series continuity and a bonus 4-page short that expands on the zombie-infected world of 1968 by horror titan Tim Vigil. Welcome to 1968 and the end of the world."
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68 (SIXTY EIGHT) #2 (OF 4) CVR A NAT JONES
"story MARK KIDWELL, art NAT JONES, TIM VIGIL & JAY FOTOS, COVER A: NAT JONES An anti-war activits actress on a propaganda tour, a deep cover CIA agent with a secret agenda and a young, Chinese-American grunt facing a screeching, drooling undead thing made up of dozens of Viet-Cong dead...These stories and more intertwine as the Vietnam-Zombie epic continues."
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68 (SIXTY EIGHT) #3 (OF 4) CVR A NAT JONES & JAY FOTOS
"story MARK KIDWELL art NAT JONES, TIM VIGIL & JAY FOTOS COVER A: NAT JONES Visions of home-brewed hell take center stage as an anti-war protest on a California college campus turns into a cannibalistic massacre at the clawing hands of the hungry undead. Two lost soldiers fight their way across a jungle wasteland teeming with rot. And in Vietnam, Agent Declan Rule reveals his true reasons for being in country."
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68 (SIXTY EIGHT) #4 (OF 4) (MR)
"story MARK KIDWELL art / covers NAT JONES & JAY FOTOS MINISERIES CONCLUSION! Captain Joe 'Dunk' Duncan, CIA agent Declan Rule, Doc Russo and a handful of hardened US troopers hold firebase Aries against hordes of Viet Cong, NVA regulars and the rotting risen dead. It's 'Custer's Last Stand' Vietnam-style in the action/horror filled conclusion to the series' initial story arc."