December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn’t involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They’ve even invented a superhero of their own, in the style of Batman, Superman, Captain America, and other stars of the Golden Age of Comics. Maybe they’ll even get their comic published someday. December 7th, 1941: Everything explodes. That morning, Frank and Stanley are aboard the battleship the USS Utah… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Racial slurs (anti-Japanese)
- Alcohol consumption mentioned (secondary characters)
- Mass hospitalisation for injuries and mentions of dead bodies
- Naval warfare including ship explosions, shipwrecks, and death from drowning or burning in flaming oil-spills
- Gun violence
- Plane crashes & death from explosions upon their impact
- Attack of Pearl Harbor (theme)
- Animal attack (dog)