I'm a little perplexed by your reply: am I right in thinking that your feelings about the Howling Commandos are coming out of the writers' lack of awareness about RL history, and that you're basing your response on the movie and the fanfic rather than the comic?
The original comic about the Commandos was set during the Second World War: Lee and Kirby were both veterans of that war and familiar with segregated units, and they decided that since they were making up a universe, those weren't going to exist. The screenwriters were following 48 years of Marvel canon, and as Lee was a producer on the film his response to "history didn't work like that" might well have been "Nope, and that was wrong, and the one we created did. Have you got the new pages done yet?"
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Date: 2012-06-14 03:59 am (UTC)The original comic about the Commandos was set during the Second World War: Lee and Kirby were both veterans of that war and familiar with segregated units, and they decided that since they were making up a universe, those weren't going to exist. The screenwriters were following 48 years of Marvel canon, and as Lee was a producer on the film his response to "history didn't work like that" might well have been "Nope, and that was wrong, and the one we created did. Have you got the new pages done yet?"