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Publisher: EC

Title: Frontline Combat
Issue: 3
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: November-December 1951
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Harvey Kurtzman

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Frontline Combat
Pages:1
Pencils:Harvey Kurtzman
Inks:Harvey Kurtzman
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:war
Reprinted:in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2006 series) Volume 1 (July 2008)


Story Title: Tin Can! - comic story
Features:Frontline Combat
Pages:8
Pencils:Jack Davis (signed)
Inks:Jack Davis (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:war
Characters:Seaman 2nd Class Eddie Yearling (head of toilet crew, death); Boats (sailor); Zack (sailor); Chinese Communists (villains, some die)
Synopsis:Sailors aboard a U.S. Destroyer are busy shaving while Seaman 2/C Yearling gets on them about dirtying up newly cleaned sinks, when General Quarters is called after the ship hits a mine. During the confusion and lights going out, Yearling gets trapped in a flooded compartment, whose door has been shut and secured to prevent the rest of the ship being flooded, not knowing Yearling is inside.
Reprinted:in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2006 series) Volume 1 (July 2008)


Story Title: Desert Fox! - comic story
Features:Frontline Combat
Pages:7
Pencils:Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inks:Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:non-fiction; war
Characters:Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel (villain, death); the Nazis (villains, some die)
Synopsis:General Rommel makes his way across northern Africa, lacking supplies. In an interesting development, he stops into a British hospital to look around, then moves on to a Polish POW camp, moving his troops, at a tremendous cost, to El Alamein. All the while, Nazis are committing reprisals against prisoners that have dared to kill German soldiers, then the news comes that German soldiers have tried to kill Adolf Hitler. When it is learned that Rommel had a hand in the plot to kill Hitler, he commits suicide.
Reprinted:in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2006 series) Volume 1 (July 2008)


Story Title: The Bridge - text article
Pages:1
Pencils:Harvey Kurtzman (masthead)
Inks:Harvey Kurtzman (masthead)
Colors:Marie Severin ?
Letters:typeset
Genre:war
Characters:Corporal Hannibal Meers (death)
Synopsis:Corporal Meers, who considered himself a master of strategy, watched as U.N. soldiers conducted an orderly retreat over a bridge spanning a small Korean river. Musing over wars of the past, he considered this war nothing more than being dull and half-hearted when compared to those in the distant past. He viewed war as man's natural element and a way to curb over-population. As the last of the unit withdrew, he could see the enemy in sight, and opened fired as the bridge blew up, taking his left with it.
Reprinted:in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2006 series) Volume 1 (July 2008)


Story Title: Sea Battle! - text article
Pages:1
Pencils:Harvey Kurtzman (masthead)
Inks:Harvey Kurtzman (masthead)
Colors:Marie Severin ?
Letters:typeset
Genre:war
Characters:Gaston Le Blanc (Captain of the Fleur-De-Lis)
Synopsis:French Captain Le Blanc steered his frigate to the American colonies, accompanying four ammunition ships, in the on-going fight against the British and King George. Sending the supply ships on, Le Blanc decided to engage a British man-of-war single handedly, aiming for the ship's rigging, while dodging the enemy's broadsides quite skillfully. In the end, the British ship had to surrender, even though they were better armed and equipped than the French frigate.
Reprinted:in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2006 series) Volume 1 (July 2008)


Story Title: Prisoner of War! - comic story
Features:Frontline Combat
Pages:6
Pencils:Harvey Kurtzman
Inks:Harvey Kurtzman
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:war
Characters:Benedict (American soldier, death); North Korean soldiers [Nabe Joe; others un-named] (villains, some die)
Synopsis:American soldiers, plucked from occupation duty in Japan, and sent into the heat of battle in the Korean War, are taken prisoner. One of them, Benedict, brown-noses the enemy and is put in charge of marching his fellow grunts towards Seoul. But Benedict soon learns that even turn-coats pay a price.
Reprinted:in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2006 series) Volume 1 (July 2008)


Story Title: How They Die! - comic story
Features:Frontline Combat
Pages:7
Pencils:John Severin [as Severin] (signed)
Inks:Bill Elder [as Elder] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:war
Characters:Willy; Willy's pal; Attila the Hun (villain, flashback); Napoleoin Bonaparte (villain, flashback); the Germans (villains, flashback)
Synopsis:As U.S. Army jeeps roll across France toward Chalon in WW2, a Frenchman remembers the wars involving the French: back to the times when Attila the Hun raced across toward the same destination and met defeat at the hands of the Romans, then the British in the 1300's, on to the time of Napoleon and his defeat at the hands of the Russians, and then WW1. Now it is the era of WW2, and all the man can think of is all the wasted lives and how much France has had to suffer.
Reprinted:in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2006 series) Volume 1 (July 2008)


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