From Fact to Fiction

As a young man growing up in Mableton, Ga., Wayne Vansant heard a lot of war stories. He heard them from his father, who served in the Navy during World War II, and from a grizzled Sunday school teacher, who fought the Nazis during the Italian Campaign. He heard stories of honor and bravery, and of death and destruction, for these are the tales that survivors of war bring home with them.

Vansant is a veteran of the Vietnam War, serving in the Navy from 1969 to 1971, though he never saw combat. Instead, years later, he illustrated other men’s war experiences as one of the primary artists on , a comic book published by Marvel Comics that