Description

Battlefields: Dear Billy                          Comics Lot w/ Variant
Writer: Garth Ennis
Artist: Peter Snejbjerg
Colorist: Rob Steen
Letterer: Simon Bowland
Cover #1 by: John Cassaday
Cover #2 by: John Cassaday
Cover #3 by: John Cassaday
Variant Cover #1C by: Garry Leach

“Dear Billy” is the devastating story of the emotional wounds of Carrie Sutton, an English girl whose longing to see the Orient led to her taking a job as a nurse in Singapore. The young British Nurse is serving in the South China Sea in World War II when the base is captured by Japanese soldiers. Fleeing Singapore following General Percival’s surrender to the Japanese invasion force, she and her fellow nurses are intercepted, gang-raped, and then machine-gunned and left for dead in the waters. The sole survivor, Carrie is rescued by a passing RAF flying boat, and ends up working at a hospital in Calcutta, keeping the details of her rape a secret from everyone else. She enters into a romantic relationship with the titular Billy, a British pilot who ends up in the hospital before rejoining the front. But when Japanese POWs begin arriving at the hospital for treatment, Carrie embarks on a bloody course of revenge.

Her perspective on the war is brutal and unapologetic, but also beautifully written in the form of a love letter to her lover, Billy.

Story/Spoilers
In issue #1 & 1C, A haunting tale of wartime in 1942… 1942: In the tropical splendor of the South China sea, as the Second World War spreads across the far east, a young woman finds herself in paradise… and then in hell. Nurse Carrie Sutton is caught up in the Japanese invasion of Singapore, suffering horrors beyond her wildest nightmares- and survives. Now she attempts to start her life anew, buoyed up by a growing friendship with a wounded pilot- only for fate to deliver up the last thing she ever expected. Carrie at last has a chance for revenge… but should she take it? In the midst of a world torn apart by war, you can fight and you can win- but you still might not get the things you truly want.

Includes the Limited Edition Variant Cover #1C by Gary Leach! Awesome!!!

Next in issue #2, As the fortunes of war turn in the Allies’ favor, Carrie begins a tentative love affair with Billy Wedgewood- whose fighter-bomber squadron is in the thick of the action against the Japanese. But Carrie’s own war has taken a strange and terrible turn, and the secrets that she keeps will set her on a path that can only have one end…

Finally, in issue #3, Carrie’s quest for revenge finally takes her over the edge, though with the end of the war in sight it seems doubtful that anyone will notice our heroine’s private struggle. Then news comes that shakes the world to its core- and Carrie and Billy are swept up in the tide of history, propelled towards a catastrophe that no one could ever have foreseen.

Comics lot contains: Battlefields: Dear Billy (2009) Issues #1-3 & Limited Edition Variant #1C.  Dynamite Entertainment

Comics are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

All First Printings
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publication Date: 2009
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.5″
UPCs: 725130112293 (Issue #1 & 1C) 725130113009 (Issue #2) 725130115898 (Issue #3)

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics 1, Limited Edition Variant 1C,2,3, are in Fine condition.  Nice Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Battlefields and/or World War 2 collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

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