"Escape from Maidenek" is a true story of sorts and buried beneath the utterly banal cover of Stamps Comics #4 is hidden among assorted tales of all kinds of sorts. This one, drawn by Vince Napoli, despite his rugged and primitive stylings still delivers. It tells of one man's successful effort to escape the Maidenek camp and his own doom, at least for a time.
The stories in Stamps Comics were (logically enough) inspired by particular stamps.
This one was inspired by a singular Polish stamp featuring a concentration camp and looming above it in deadly and dramatic fashion is a skeletal storm trooper of the Reich. Here's what one source says about it:
This Polish stamp, issued in 1946 according to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, depicts a Grim Reaper-like Nazi emptying Zyklon-B over the Madjankek death camp. The first line of the text reads:
"Death Camp." The second line read" "Bath and Gas Chambers."
In the words of the late great Stan Lee -- 'Nuff Said!
Note: This post originally appeared at Rip Jagger's Other Dojo.
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