Dark Horse Comics: Medal of Honor #1 (1994)
 
When you can't bend steel or leap buildings, the price of heroism goes up; so do the rewards. Following hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed special, MEDAL OF HONOR features biographies of the brave people who risked their lives for freedom. Richard Bong and Julius Langbein are the subjects of this premiere issue. Richard Bong, a fighter pilot in WWII, was decorated with the Medal of Honor for having the top success kill-ratio in the war. Faced with his new role as a hero, Bong must come to terms with the meaning of war and what he has done. Our second feature takes place during the Civil War, when fifteen-year-old Julius Langbein was a drummer boy in the Union Army. Proof that courage defies all categories, the young man ventures bravely into the battlefield to save his dying comrades when no one else will.