NAM (THE)

Regular series that ran for 84 issues.

The ´Nam was a Marvel Comics war comic book series. It was written by Doug Murray and later by Don Lomax and illustrated by Michael Golden. It told the tale of the 23rd infantry in Vietnam. It was stated that every action and fire fight in the series was based on fact. There was also an ambitious time structure in the series: it happend in "real time". When thirty days passed for a reader (the span of one issue), thirty days passed also for the characters in the story. The initial goal was to "rotate" the characters back to the States after 12 issues - one year - as in the real conflict.

The ´Nam was a reality based comic, but because it was a Comics Code approved series, issues like drug use were not addressed. No swearing and the soldier slang was cleaned. Despite being reality based, numerous characters would later cross over to mainstream Marvel comics.

All issues were Non-Distributed in the UK at the time so always cents copies. There are no pence copy variants.

This series went through a period of being hot and collectible in the UK in the early 1990s but interest has tailed off and remained static as are values.

The series is partially collected in three Trade paperback collections:

The 'Nam Volume 1 (#1-4) - (a new Edition of this was released in 1999)

The 'Nam Volume 2 (#5-8)

The 'Nam Volume 3 (#9-12)

A further series of three Trade paperback were released between 2009-2011, each with a larger issue count:

The 'Nam Volume 1 (#1-10)

The 'Nam Volume 2 (#11-20)

The 'Nam Volume 3 (#21-30)