World War II marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons in war. Japan, which aimed to dominate Asia and the Pacific, was at war with China by 1937, though neither side had declared war on the other. World War II is generally said to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany and subsequent declarations on Germany by France and the United Kingdom. From
War comics variety of titles beginning in the 1950s, such as "Battlefield Action", "Fightin' Army", and "Fightin' Marines". Quality also began publishing "G.I. Combat" during this era. Marvel Comics also produced war titles, notably "Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos". In contrast to the typical glamorizing approach of most war titles, the EC Comics titles "Frontline Combat" and "Two-Fisted Tales" (produced in the early 1950s) depicted the horrors of war realistically and in great detail, exposing what editor Harvey Kurtzman saw as the truth about war without idealizing it. (The mid-1960s black-and-white comics magazine "Blazing Combat", produced by Warren Publishing, was similarly