Just Deserts

Just Deserts is a gen Rat Patrol fiction and art anthology.
==Issue 1==
Just Deserts 1 was published in November 1985 and has 128 pages. 
The cover is by Laura Virgil. The interior art is by Mary Otten, Laura Virgil, Dani Lane, and Vicki Brinkmeir.
The editor was Ann Wortham, the co-editor was L.A. Carr.
200 copies were printed.
From the editorial: 
* From Behind the Fifty, editorial by Ann "Sarge" Wortham (2)
* From the Driver's Seat, editorial by L.A. "Hitch" Carr (3)
* The Sweet Dreams Raid by Lorraine Bartlett ("Troy is having a hard time dealing with conflicting feelings toward Dietrich and matters can only get worse when his worst nightmare begins to come true." Another summary: "Dietrich is really sick of the Rat Patrol wiping out his men and blowing up his supplies and machine gunning his trucks and—well, you get the idea. Dietrich is going to do something about it") (4) 
* The Need For Faith Raid by Linda Knights ("The patrol is faced to leave an injured Moffitt behind when duty calls. Of course, they get into trouble.") (some sequels appear to be in The G-2 Files) (68)
* The Ashes to Ashes Raid by Cathy Bryson & Carol Jenkins ("The Rat Patrol return to North Africa many years after the war to pay tribute to Moffitt's father.") (28)
*The Sons of the Desert Raid by Diane Farnsworth (34)
*The Thicker Than Water Raid by L.A. Carr (42)
* The Nightmare Raid by Allen Quale ("Hitchcock just can not stay out of trouble lately. Only this time, it's defiantly not his fault... Will Sam Troy be able to live with the fact that it is not his fault?") (52)
*A Is For Arab by N.D. Jones (89)
*For The Love of the Homeland by CarolMel Ambassador (91)
* The Fedora Raid by Susan Hall ("Bet you can't guess who the fedora belongs to?") (crossover with Indiana Jones) (92)
*Honored Opponent by CarolMel Ambassador (101)
* The Mirror Twin Raid by Diane Farnsworth ("Dietrich and Troy are more alike than either would like to admit.") (102)
*Unspoken Agreement by CarolMel Ambassador (117)
* The Tea and Crumpets Raid by Susanne McGhin ("Moffitt finds some unusual help when he is lost in the desert with the German army surrounding him.") (111)
* The Friend Indeed Raid by L.A. Carr ("Poor Mark Hitchcock in in trouble again, only this time a stranger comes to his aid.") (118)
 
Image:justdeseerts1-1.jpg|from issue #1, Laura Virgil
Image:justdeseerts1-2.jpg|from issue #1, Vicki Brinkmeier
Image:justdeseerts1-3.jpg|from issue #1 
Image:justdeseerts1-4.jpg|from issue #1, Dani Lane
Image:justdeseerts1-5.jpg|from issue #1, Mary Otten
Image:justdeseerts1-6.jpg|from issue #1, Dani Lane
 
==Issue 2==
Just Deserts 2 was published in February 1987 and is 113 pages long. 
The interior illos are cartoons by Colleen Winters.
NOTE: Issue #1's flyer said "Aftermath" by Allen Quale would appear in this issue, but it did not.
 
Contains stories in the The Need for Faith series by Linda Knights.
* From Behind the Fifty (2)
* Letters of Comment (3)
* Merry Christmas, Sarge by D.C. Gerhart (Hitch and Tully surprise Troy for Christmas) (8)
* The Time of Testing Raid by Linda Knights (9)
* As The Twig is Bent by Marcia Brin (A hitman awaits the chance to assassinate Senator Sam Troy.) (38)
* Common Paths, poem by CarolMel Ambassador (39)
* The Doctor is in Raid by JoLynn Horvath (When Dietrich is seriously wounded in a battle, his sergeant takes him to an aid station run by a Swiss neutral--where he encounters the Rat Patrol.) (40)
* Enemy by Name by CarolMel Ambassador (A moment out of the episode in which Dietrich blinds Troy.) (62)
* The Aryan Raid by L.A. Carr (Sequel to "Thicker than Water Raid". A Nazi scientist captures and brainwashes Aryan-looking enemy soldiers to be good Germans -- and he captures Mark Hitchcock.) (64)
* Not Quite an Enemy, Not Quite a Friend by JoLynn Horvath (Troy and Dietrich reflect on their relationship, whatever it may be.) (71)
* Assurance, poem by CarolMel Ambassador (73)
* In Definition: A Traitor by Linda Knights (74)
* The Cross Country Raid by Colleen Winters (With his men ailing in a camp behind enemy lines, Dietrich must find an original way to get medicine to them.) (96)
 
Category:Rat Patrol
Category:1985 ZinesCategory:1987 Zines