WHERE VULTURES FARE

WHERE EAGLES DARE (1968)
dir: Brian G. Hutton

Angelo Torres' first work for MAD. One of a few comic artists that started out as a horror and sciece-fiction guy, a contemporary of Al Williamson, but ended up in humor because he couldn't find much work in the other genres since they were basically killed by the comics code.

WHERE VULTURES FARE
MAD #130, October 1969
w: Larry Siegel
a: Angelo Torres

In the winter of 1943-44, MI6 officers Colonel Turner (Patrick Wymark) and Admiral Rolland (Michael Hordern) assign Major John Smith (Richard Burton), five other commandos of the Special Operations Executive, and U.S. Army Ranger Lieutenant Morris Schaffer (Clint Eastwood) of the OSS to rescue U.S. Army Brigadier General George Carnaby (Robert Beatty), a chief planner for the Western Front. Carnaby was captured by the Germans and taken to the Schloß Adler, a mountaintop fortress in the Bavarian alpine village of Werfen, which is accessible only by cable car.

Disguised as German troops, Smith and his team are to parachute in, infiltrate the castle, and rescue General Carnaby before the Germans can interrogate him. After a Ju 52 transport plane drops the team into Germany, agent Mary Ellison (Mary Ure) is dropped separately in secret, her presence known only to Smith.

Anthony Quinn of The Guns of Navarone and Jim Brown of The Dirty Dozen appear in the first panel, and their movies are named, in case you didn't get that.

WHERE EAGLES BARE
Sick #71, November 1969
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Bill Robinson

Terry-Thomas, who played the commande=ing British officer in many WWII comedies, is in the corner of the bottom panel.

Clint Eadtwood is drawn as The Man with No Name from his spaghetti westerns. A Guns of Navarone reference is made here too with a caricature of David Niven.

Burton's real-life wife Elizabeth Taylor is portrayed here.