Created by Gary Friedrich and Dick Ayers, the book was a spin-off of the series Sgt.

[2][3] The series was launched when Marvel suddenly received the ability to publish more titles than they had previously due to an embargo.

[4] Per issue: The series focuses on the characters of the elite Marine Corps team the Leatherneck Raiders and their lives in the Pacific theater of World War II.

[5] Pierre Comtois, the author of the book "Marvel Comics in the 1970s" states that the series was an early experiment from Marvel before they realized that the superhero genre would be the one to dominate the comics market in the foreseeable future.

Comtois hypothesised that the series was cancelled due to changing societal norms, such as anti-war sentiment, something which affected many war comics at the time.