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And whatever any "years" have do to this, or making a light sparkle (this thing between the Walther's trigger and its barrel, I don't know how to say it in English if I'm not saying it correctly) on any metal being blue - did you ever seen such thing? That is, I guessed it's a sparkle.
Well, at least it's not like in the old comics from few dozen years ago, when the Germans wore trippy purple (violet) or blue uniforms and drove purple or blue vehicles (seemingly color blind colorists or the ones who have seen WWII only in b/w things and imagined things to be "cool" or whatever - but the artists often did amazing job, very detailed stuff unlike in many superhero comics and their fantasy weapons).
Anyways, the uniforms aren't necessarily supposed to represent anyone. A colorist is rarely given details about the page they have to color and if they don't know there are "WWII Uniforms from Germans" then the colors are simply decided as "what looks best."
Plus, I believe the blue on the uniforms belt and chamber are deliberately blue. The point of the pin-up is to enhance the main character, so any background characters can't have any colors that would distract from the main character.
lol! Yes, I've seen those old comics. Makes me wonder what they were thinking when they decided purple and bright blue uniforms were going to look good.
A lot of comics use the "Nazi-Bad Guy" persona because it was a realistic threat at one point, even though it was so long ago. Personally I never cared for comics that involved such dark times, I'd rather they make up a threat.
As for the Brozne Age colorists, I think they were either on drugs all the time or have never seen any WWII film.
But what I always wondered, is why in the comics FROM the war the Germans (except well-known officials) were most often just a Schwarzenegger-type blonde brutes (not a very negative image), while the Japanese were usually totally racist caricatures (often even with sharp teeth and claws, green skin, hunchbacked and all that - even Buddha statues were of a demonic monster).
The colorist' usually had a limited palette of colors to work with, so I can understand the weird colors. All the comics from way back when were oddly colored in bright solid colors. I think it had something to do with how the comic was printed.
Hmmm.. well I think they used the blonde muscle types because of the "Aryan Race" concept brought on my Hitler and the Nazi'. They were supposed to be suppior in every way to the rest of humans and had a certain look (blonde, muscle, blue eyes, etc.). In WWII along with Pearl Harbor, the view of Japanese bacame very mean and aggressive. Unfortunatly it hasn't changed much in comic books since then. They tend to show the Japanese in a later time period then the bright and technology enhanced Japan of today.